{"id":1892954,"date":"2026-07-24T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892954"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:12:15","slug":"how-pff-graded-nc-states-returning-defensive-players-and-transfers-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892954","title":{"rendered":"How PFF Graded NC State\u2019s Returning Defensive Players and Transfers in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College football is almost here, and NC State enters the 2026 season with a defense that looks dramatically different from a year ago. The Wolfpack returns several experienced contributors, including Asaad Brown Jr., Brian Nelson II, Jackson Vick, Isaiah Shirley, and Tristan Teasdell, while adding several expected starters through the Transfer Portal. The biggest additions [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/07\/24\/nc-state-defense-2025-pff-grades-returners-transfers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College football is almost here, and NC State enters the 2026 season with a defense that looks dramatically different from a year ago. The Wolfpack returns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892955,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892954\/revisions\/1892955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}