diff --git a/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php b/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php
index 021c7b92bba5..49fc019fc21d 100644
--- a/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php
+++ b/administrator/components/com_content/src/Controller/FeaturedController.php
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
  *
  * @copyright   (C) 2009 Open Source Matters, Inc. <https://www.joomla.org>
  * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
- *
- * @deprecated  6.0 will be removed in 8.0
  */
 
 namespace Joomla\Component\Content\Administrator\Controller;
diff --git a/administrator/components/com_content/src/Model/FeaturedModel.php b/administrator/components/com_content/src/Model/FeaturedModel.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a9ecfb637878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/administrator/components/com_content/src/Model/FeaturedModel.php
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @package     Joomla.Administrator
+ * @subpackage  com_content
+ *
+ * @copyright   (C) 2009 Open Source Matters, Inc. <https://www.joomla.org>
+ * @license     GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
+ */
+
+namespace Joomla\Component\Content\Administrator\Model;
+
+// phpcs:disable PSR1.Files.SideEffects
+\defined('_JEXEC') or die;
+// phpcs:enable PSR1.Files.SideEffects
+
+/**
+ * Methods supporting a list of featured article records.
+ *
+ * @since  1.6
+ *
+ * @deprecated  6.0 will be removed in 8.0
+ *              Use \Joomla\Component\Content\Administrator\Model\ArticlesModel instead
+ *              set the filter.featured state to 1 to get only featured articles
+ */
+class FeaturedModel extends ArticlesModel
+{
+}