{"id":501188,"date":"2026-02-24T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:18:09","slug":"report-zach-ertz-plans-to-play-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501188\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Zach Ertz plans to play in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Ertz\u2019s 13th NFL season ended when he tore his ACL, but he reportedly doesn\u2019t plan on the injury being the end of his playing career. <\/p>\n<p>Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that Ertz <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2026291534799290769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">plans to play<\/a> in 2026. He is currently rehabbing his injury and, per the report, expects to be cleared for full activity a some point around the start of the regular season. <\/p>\n<p>Ertz\u2019s desire to play is only one part of the equation for getting him on the field for a 14th season. His contract with the Commanders is up, which means he\u2019ll become a free agent in March unless he re-signs with the team in the next few weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Ertz caught 50 passes for 504 yards and a touchdown in 13 games before tearing his ACL last year. He ranks 37th in NFL history with 825 catches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Ertz\u2019s 13th NFL season ended when he tore his ACL, but he reportedly doesn\u2019t plan on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-501188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501188","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=501188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}