{"id":104295,"date":"2025-08-29T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104295\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:16:10","slug":"nik-bonitto-george-pickens-headline-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104295\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Bonitto, George Pickens headline class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most teams are getting smarter about keeping their best players. That&#8217;s partly why the list of 2026 potential free agents below has already been decimated by a slew of forward-thinking clubs that locked up young stars. (Or <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/micah-parsons-packers-cowboys-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they just trade them to the Packers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are a lot of intriguing options, especially among pass rushers, pass catchers and offensive linemen. Without further ado, our way-too-early look at the top 25 free agents of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most teams are getting smarter about keeping their best players. That&#8217;s partly why the list of 2026 potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[61008,75214,13449,64,63,75220,28658,19989,75221,75213,75223,9848,1265,19991,75211,23912,17597,75219,75215,21176,593,48929,19976,75222,22419,85,75212,75217,1259,75210,75216,75218],"class_list":{"0":"post-104295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-alec-pierce","9":"tag-alijah-vera-tucker","10":"tag-analysis","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-boye-mafe","14":"tag-breece-hall","15":"tag-cade-otton","16":"tag-colton-mckivitz","17":"tag-daron-bland","18":"tag-devin-lloyd","19":"tag-free-agency","20":"tag-george-pickens","21":"tag-isaiah-likely","22":"tag-jaelan-phillips","23":"tag-jakobi-meyers","24":"tag-jauan-jennings","25":"tag-kenny-walker-iii","26":"tag-luke-goedeke","27":"tag-mike-evans","28":"tag-nfl","29":"tag-nik-bonitto","30":"tag-no-minute","31":"tag-odafe-oweh","32":"tag-rashid-shaheed","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-tariq-woolen","35":"tag-travis-jones","36":"tag-trey-hendrickson","37":"tag-tyler-linderbaum","38":"tag-wyatt-teller","39":"tag-zyon-mccollum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}