NFL Offseason 2026

[nicksaviking]

29 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

I want to see Donald lined up next to Myles Garrett for science purposes...

Maybe this is why the Cardinals aren't bothering rostering QBs this year? They're sitting back laughing at SF and Seattle assuming Purdy and Darnold are going to need to schedule funerals this season.

[Vanimal46]

33 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

I think Cleveland got the short end here, slightly, but they need capital to get a QB in the next draft. I wouldn't be surprised if Verse goes to a bad team with a young QB before the next draft in a three way deal for Cleveland to move up and get a QB. 

From their perspective, there’s almost no way to get fair trade value for a 1st ballot HOF type of player. Verse is from Ohio evidently so maybe he will have a little home state pride to turn that situation around. 

Agreed with you all they’re doing is setting up to take a QB right away in 2027. With ammo to spare if the Cardinals or Dolphins out-tank them. 

[Vanimal46]

2 hours ago, nicksaviking said:

Maybe this is why the Cardinals aren't bothering rostering QBs this year? They're sitting back laughing at SF and Seattle assuming Purdy and Darnold are going to need to schedule funerals this season.

Arizona is one of 3 teams I think are actively tanking. Cleveland and NYJ if none of those teams “earn” the 1st overall pick the bidding war will be insane. 

[Mike Sixel]

6 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Arizona is one of 3 teams I think are actively tanking. Cleveland and NYJ if none of those teams “earn” the 1st overall pick the bidding war will be insane. 

Agreed 

[nicksaviking]

12 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Arizona is one of 3 teams I think are actively tanking. Cleveland and NYJ if none of those teams “earn” the 1st overall pick the bidding war will be insane. 

I also think Miami is tanking. And maybe in the stupidest way. No attempt at a passing game and a 185 lb RB? They're going to destroy one of the leagues best young ball carriers the season they gave him a contract extension.

[TheLeviathan]

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[Vanimal46]

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[Vanimal46]

We will see soon enough what Christian Watson’s contract breakdown looks like… The reported 4/$110 million extension is insane for a player who hasn’t topped 700 yards in a single season. 

Jordan Addison is salivating after this news… If he isn’t a moron this year, he’s gonna get $30-35 million per year when he hits the open market. 

[flpmagikat]

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[nicksaviking]

I'm guessing Stefon Diggs' career is over?

https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/14/stefon-diggs-male-sexual-assault-accuser-says-his-football-team-flew-him-out/

As it should be if anywhere remotely accurate. But I'd guess teams would blacklist him for the wrong reason.

[Danchat]

28 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

I'm guessing Stefon Diggs' career is over?

https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/14/stefon-diggs-male-sexual-assault-accuser-says-his-football-team-flew-him-out/

As it should be if anywhere remotely accurate. But I'd guess teams would blacklist him for the wrong reason.

Last I heard:

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The NFL concluded that there was “insufficient evidence to support a finding of a personal conduct policy violation” for free agent WR Stefon Diggs.

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reports “at least” five teams have been checking in on free agent WR Stefon Diggs.

My expectation is that he'll sign somewhere to be a starting receiver in the next month, unless something comes out about one of his multiple civil cases. Knowing NFL teams, this isn't enough to blacklist him.

[nicksaviking]

24 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Last I heard:

My expectation is that he'll sign somewhere to be a starting receiver in the next month, unless something comes out about one of his multiple civil cases. Knowing NFL teams, this isn't enough to blacklist him.

My understanding was that the NFL's investigation was about the assault of the caterer. This civil suit about him sexually assaulting a man seems like it's new news to everyone in the industry.

But NFL investigation or not, that's immaterial as to the reason I think clubs will blacklist him.

[Vanimal46]

4 hours ago, nicksaviking said:

I'm guessing Stefon Diggs' career is over?

He's at the stage in his career where it could go either way. Turning 33 years old, and probably more of a #4 WR than a #2 WR. Maybe he waits out the first wave of training camp injuries then signs after that. 

[Vanimal46]

I've been checked out of the NFL after the draft... Still some decent names available in FA. No idea if they're injured or just not good anymore...

WR: Tyreek Hill (probably done that leg injury was gruesome), Deebo Samuel, Diggs, Brandin Cooks, Keenan Allen

EDGE: Joey Bosa, Clowney, Haason Reddick, Von Miller (old)

CB: Marshon Lattimore, Trevon Diggs, Kenny Moore

By the way, since it's been radio silence from Harry the Hitman, are we to assume he's coming back?

[Mike Sixel]

3 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

I've been checked out of the NFL after the draft... Still some decent names available in FA. No idea if they're injured or just not good anymore...

WR: Tyreek Hill (probably done that leg injury was gruesome), Deebo Samuel, Diggs, Brandin Cooks, Keenan Allen

EDGE: Joey Bosa, Clowney, Haason Reddick, Von Miller (old)

CB: Marshon Lattimore, Trevon Diggs, Kenny Moore

By the way, since it's been radio silence from Harry the Hitman, are we to assume he's coming back?

He's got to be coming back, imo, or he'd have retired with his friends. That said, I'm shocked they haven't announced he's back yet. 

[Vanimal46]

54 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

He's got to be coming back, imo, or he'd have retired with his friends. That said, I'm shocked they haven't announced he's back yet. 

Agreed. We have to assume by now there’s already a deal in place to sign him for another year. Otherwise why wouldn’t he have been a part of the Ham and Thielen retirement party?

[Danchat]

6 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

I've been checked out of the NFL after the draft... Still some decent names available in FA. No idea if they're injured or just not good anymore...

WR: Tyreek Hill (probably done that leg injury was gruesome), Deebo Samuel, Diggs, Brandin Cooks, Keenan Allen

EDGE: Joey Bosa, Clowney, Haason Reddick, Von Miller (old)

CB: Marshon Lattimore, Trevon Diggs, Kenny Moore

By the way, since it's been radio silence from Harry the Hitman, are we to assume he's coming back?

Sounds like Joey Bosa is retiring, or at least won't play in 2026. Tyreek had the Teddy Bridgewater dislocated knee and probably won't be healthy until 2027 and probably won't be the same player he was.

Cornerback is such a volatile position, Lattimore and Diggs were terrible last year and it seems like really good CBs can fall off at age 28/29. A la Xavier Rhodes being a top 5 CB for 2 years and then by age 29 became a shell of his former self.

Diggs, Allen, and Samuel can still be WR2s and will sign when they want to, there seems to be a tier of veteran player who is assumedly going to get a 1 year deal, so they wait it out and skip spring/summer practices.

Speaking of old edge rushers, both Von Miller and Cameron Jordan had 9+ sacks in 2025 despite both being 36 years old. Jordan hit 10.5!

[Vanimal46]

Well this stinks. More layoffs at ESPN. 

[Mike Sixel]

1 hour ago, Vanimal46 said:

Well this stinks. More layoffs at ESPN. 

People still watch ESPN?

[ashbury]

I saw something about Ryan Clark being let go too.

[Mike Sixel]

To be clear, ESPN is making a huge mistake getting rid of actual reporters. 

[nicksaviking]

On 7/21/2026 at 11:32 AM, ashbury said:

I saw something about Ryan Clark being let go too.

Yes, while live on air.

I guess they have somebody who was leaking the firings and ESPN wanted to let him know before he read about it between ad breaks. 

So when they find out it's Adam Schefter who was doing the leaking, will they let him go too?

[Vanimal46]

Things aren't looking too good in Tampa at the moment. Baker wants a $50 million AAV extension, and their HC Bowles is certainly entering the season on the hot seat. 

[nicksaviking]

18 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Things aren't looking too good in Tampa at the moment. Baker wants a $50 million AAV extension, and their HC Bowles is certainly entering the season on the hot seat. 

Yeah, looking at the Bucs roster, they need a new GM to go with the coach next year. You don't want to give Mayfield a 50M deal, but that's the price these days and much worse QBs are getting paid that much or more. 

So they don't have a ton of good players, so why are they 27th in cap space? Answer, Tristan Wirfs has a 36M cap hit. He's definitely a good LT but but it looks like the cap hit was front loaded and it would actually save them money to cut him in the next couple of years. Is that what you want? His contract makes it look like they'll have to give good consideration to cutting him starting next year. Chris Godwin has a !33M! cap hit. I know he's well liked and a good player when healthy, but no team would have let that happen. Antoine Winfield is good, but he already peaked and he's got a 27M cap hit. 

Then this offseason, 10M to good-not-great A'Shawn Robinson and 7M to running back Kenneth Gainwell? Do they realize what year it is and how much you're supposed to pay running backs?

Sorry, I don't actually care about Tampa one bit but went down a rabbit hole wondering what the hell is going on here.

[Mike Sixel]

Greenard tore his pec lifting.....

[Vanimal46]

I've got a couple of NFL hot takes on my mind now that preseason is here...

I've been seeing a lot of QB rankings lists with both Caleb Williams and Drake Maye as dang near consensus top 10 QBs. I think both are extremely overrated heading into the season. New England will get an inflated win total because 2 teams in their division are actively trying to go 0-17.

Joe Burrow will be healthy the whole season and win the MVP.

The Green Bay Packers will finish last in the NFC North.  

[nicksaviking]

3 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

I've got a couple of NFL hot takes on my mind now that preseason is here...

I've been seeing a lot of QB rankings lists with both Caleb Williams and Drake Maye as dang near consensus top 10 QBs. I think both are extremely overrated heading into the season. New England will get an inflated win total because 2 teams in their division are actively trying to go 0-17.

Joe Burrow will be healthy the whole season and win the MVP.

The Green Bay Packers will finish last in the NFC North.  

I like all of your takes. With the first one in particular, I think people have blinders on.

I do think Drake Maye is really good, but his season was pretty flukey, and I doubt it's repeatable because of the offense he is in. He threw for almost 4400 yards, but it was due to an unbelievably high completion percentage on deep balls. He put up those yards and threw for 31 TDs on less than 500 pass attempts, which makes sense because Mike Vrabel doesn't want to throw the ball. I will say, that if Maye is legit that good on deep balls and can hold a 72% completion percentage on 9 Yards per Attempt and 9.5 Air Yards per Attempt for his career, he's going to be better than Manning, Brady and Brees and Vrabel is going to waste his talent.

As for Williams, he did improve last year, but only because they got him to cut his sacks down by 2/3rds. How is nobody noticing that he went from a pretty poor 62% completion percentage in his rookie year to what should be very concerning 58% last year? His reads are still slow too and it shows as he went from a 3.03 second average throw time in his rookie year to 3.25 seconds last year. I'm guessing like KOC, Ben Johnson has some longer developing plays, but any 'improvement' Williams showed had to be almost entirely due to the improved offensive line.

And the Packers are the least talented team in the division. They've been playing above their skill level for a few years though. I think once they all acknowledge that they no longer have a generational QB leading them, the house of cards will collapse and they'll be bottom dwellers for a decent spell*.

*Sigh, probably just wishful thinking

[Vanimal46]

1 hour ago, nicksaviking said:

I do think Drake Maye is really good, but his season was pretty flukey, and I doubt it's repeatable because of the offense he is in. He threw for almost 4400 yards, but it was due to an unbelievably high completion percentage on deep balls. He put up those yards and threw for 31 TDs on less than 500 pass attempts, which makes sense because Mike Vrabel doesn't want to throw the ball. I will say, that if Maye is legit that good on deep balls and can hold a 72% completion percentage on 9 Yards per Attempt and 9.5 Air Yards per Attempt for his career, he's going to be better than Manning, Brady and Brees and Vrabel is going to waste his talent.

I like Drake Maye a lot, but you nailed it. The offense he's in is not going to do him any favors. His stats last year were because New England played the easiest schedule in years. He'll get a little boost playing 4 games against the lowly Jets and Dolphins, but beyond that, a 1st place schedule is going to be tough for him to repeat. 

1 hour ago, nicksaviking said:

As for Williams, he did improve last year, but only because they got him to cut his sacks down by 2/3rds. How is nobody noticing that he went from a pretty poor 62% completion percentage in his rookie year to what should be very concerning 58% last year? His reads are still slow too and it shows as he went from a 3.03 second average throw time in his rookie year to 3.25 seconds last year. I'm guessing like KOC, Ben Johnson has some longer developing plays, but any 'improvement' Williams showed had to be almost entirely due to the improved offensive line.

Yeah, I am at a loss why there's so much love for Caleb Williams. 58% completion percentage is a giant red flag. I think the shelf life of Ben Johnson is going to be really short as a HC. They also benefited from a last place schedule last year. I don't think they're going to do nearly as well this year with a 1st place schedule.

1 hour ago, nicksaviking said:

And the Packers are the least talented team in the division. They've been playing above their skill level for a few years though. I think once they all acknowledge that they no longer have a generational QB leading them, the house of cards will collapse and they'll be bottom dwellers for a decent spell*.

From your lips to the football gods' ears. No Micah Parsons for at least the 4-6 games of the season, if not longer. Their WR room is by far the least talented in the division. And frankly I don't think Matt LaFleur is a good HC. 

[Vanimal46]

As they should. Gonna be hilarious when they're the Indiana Bears. 

[nicksaviking]

11 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

As they should. Gonna be hilarious when they're the Indiana Bears. 

Funny that the state of Indiana will have two NFL teams and Illinois zero.

Even though it's the same metro, Chicago will be eyed for an expansion or relocation team.