{"id":6685,"date":"2024-03-05T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/saquon-barkley-set-for-free-agency-with-packers-and-ravens-in-the-frame\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:12:24","slug":"saquon-barkley-set-for-free-agency-with-packers-and-ravens-in-the-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/saquon-barkley-set-for-free-agency-with-packers-and-ravens-in-the-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Saquon Barkley set for free agency with Packers and Ravens in the frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former No 2 overall pick will hit free agency for the first time in his career. There will be a long list of suitors this offseason<\/p>\n<p>New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley is heading for free agency for the first time in his career, avoiding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2024\/03\/05\/what-is-franchise-tag-deadline-day\/72848730007\/\">the franchise tag<\/a> ahead of Tuesday\u2019s deadline to apply the restrictive marker.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Joe Schoen said last week that the Giants weren\u2019t taking the tag off the table, but the team opted against tagging Barkley for a second straight year because of a cost of $12.1m, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/mar\/05\/saquon-barkley-set-for-free-agency-with-packers-and-ravens-in-the-frame\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former No 2 overall pick will hit free agency for the first time in his career. There will be a long list of suitors this offseason New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley is heading for free agency for the first time in his career, avoiding the franchise tag ahead of Tuesday\u2019s deadline to &#8230; <a title=\"Saquon Barkley set for free agency with Packers and Ravens in the frame\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/saquon-barkley-set-for-free-agency-with-packers-and-ravens-in-the-frame\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Saquon Barkley set for free agency with Packers and Ravens in the frame\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}