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The Jaguars are creating cap space. It’s starting with cornerback Darious Williams. It could continue with offensive lineman Brandon Scherff and safety Rayshawn Jenkins. Both are in the final year of their respective contracts. Jenkins is due to earn a non-guaranteed salary of $8.28 million in 2024. His cap number is $12.564 million. He’d leave behind $7.136 million in dead …

Saquon Barkley’s future in New York is once again up in the air. The Pro Bowl running back is slated to become a free agent this spring, which comes a year after the team placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on him last March. Barkley and the Giants went back and forth in contract negotiations, but he ultimately settled on a …

The 2024 NFL Draft will be Tom Telesco’s first one with the Las Vegas Raiders and it looks like the team’s new general manager is looking to make a splash. According to The Athletic, the Raiders want to trade up in the first round and they’re currently exploring what it might take to make that happen. The Raiders currently hold …

Over the next two years, the Broncos will take $85 million in cap charges for quarterback Russell Wilson. How they apportion the consequences between 2024 and 2025 remains to be seen. The key factor is a $22 million option bonus due next week. The payment is guaranteed. The Broncos can prorate it over the next five years, or they decline …

Free agency is on the horizon around the NFL, even though some players are awaiting to see whether they’ll hit the open market. Some free agents will have the franchise tag placed on them in the days leading up to free agency, giving teams more time to negotiate long-term deals with the player while keeping them under team control for …

For as much as is uncertain with every NFL Draft, one thing is for sure — there will be a small collection of “surprise” selections late in the first round. It’s a yearly tradition unlike any other. And in almost every one of those instances, those surprising picks are freaky athletes. The NFL values traits. These picks are rarely used …

Getty Images Less than a week before the start of 2024 NFL free agency, one of the top veterans set to be available has come off the market, with the Carolina Panthers using their franchise tag Tuesday to temporarily secure pass-rusher Brian Burns. Burns, 25, was one of several high-level defenders on track to test the open market, though Panthers …

USATSI The Pittsburgh Steelers profile as one of the most logical landing spots for quarterback Justin Fields, whose time with the Chicago Bears appears to be nearing its end. Just don’t count on them actually pursuing the former first-round draft pick. Weeks after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the team had no interest in acquiring a big-name successor to current starter …

The story of NFL free agency this offseason might not be any particular player, but a team trying to retain two of its best players. Maybe if the Kansas City Chiefs can’t retain all their top talent, someone can catch them and win a Super Bowl. The Chiefs don’t have many huge questions this offseason, but they do have two …

The Jets are moving on from one of their veteran offensive players. Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, New York is expected to release tight end C.J. Uzomah. Uzomah, 31, played just 12 games in 2023. He missed the last five weeks of the season with an MCL injury. But even when he was active, he was not on the field …

NFL teams are not permitted to negotiate with other clubs’ pending free agents until March 11, but Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell recently suggested that Kirk Cousins, their soon-to-be free-agent quarterback, has already drawn inquiries from around the league. Not only that, but O’Connell indicated that Cousins’ departure may well be on the horizon. “Yeah, I think the (scouting) …

Report details Patriots’ contract offer to Dugger as deadline looms originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston We’ve heard reports that the New England Patriots have a contract offer on the table for pending free agent safety Kyle Dugger. We now have a better idea of what that offer looks like. The “belief” is that the Patriots have offered Dugger a …

Russell Wilson won’t play a single snap on the five-year extension the Broncos signed him to, with the team announcing his release on Monday afternoon. Acquiring Wilson will probably go down in NFL history as the worst trade of all time (Deshaun Watson pending), but Wilson’s next stop actually offers a lot of intrigue and upside because of the Broncos …

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The fun of free agency is a team being able to acquire players that the front office and scouting department admired from a distance. Opportunity is there for each of the NFL’s 32 teams to dramatically shake up their rosters ahead of the league’s legal tampering period, which begins on March 11. However, retaining top talent is equally as important …