{"id":1930499,"date":"2026-08-30T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930499"},"modified":"2026-08-30T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:23:54","slug":"18-former-nc-state-players-make-nfl-53-man-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930499","title":{"rendered":"18 Former NC State Players Make NFL 53-Man Rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Preseason has wrapped, and the 2026 season starts this week. All 32 NFL teams have released their initial 53-man rosters. Eighteen former NC State football players made 53-man rosters. Two undrafted free agents made the cut: LB Caden Fordham and DE Sabastian Harsh. Offensive Tackle Ikem Ekwonu will obviously end up being on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/30\/nc-state-football-players-nfl-53-man-rosters-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Preseason has wrapped, and the 2026 season starts this week. All 32 NFL teams have released their initial 53-man rosters. Eighteen former NC State&#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-1930499","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\/1930499","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=1930499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930500,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930499\/revisions\/1930500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}