{"id":1929778,"date":"2026-08-26T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929778"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:14:07","slug":"cj-bailey-makes-espns-top-100-players-ahead-of-the-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929778","title":{"rendered":"CJ Bailey Makes ESPN\u2019s Top-100 Players Ahead of the 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN released their Top-100 players ahead of the 2026 college football season today, and NC State 3rd year Quarterback CJ Bailey landed at #68. Bailey didn&#8217;t land in ESPN&#8217;s Top-100 players of the 2025 season when it wrapped. Here&#8217;s what ESPN had to say about ranking Bailey 68th: &#8220;Bailey&#8217;s 79.4 QBR is the seventh-best among [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/26\/cj-bailey-espn-top-100-players-2026-nc-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN released their Top-100 players ahead of the 2026 college football season today, and NC State 3rd year Quarterback CJ Bailey landed at #68. Bailey didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929778","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=1929778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929779,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929778\/revisions\/1929779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}