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Moore is the most notable name here. Tampa’s fourth-round pick in 2008, he reported to the team overweight and spent his first year on the practice squad. Andrus will be a “camp leg” behind Matt Bryant. Pociask is a blocker.

Jackson will be able to be activated off the PUP list at any time during training camp, but apparently will not be ready as camp starts. If he remains on the PUP list through the 53-man roster deadline, he’ll be locked into missing a few weeks at the beginning of the season.

This is in the context of stretching the field a little more than the Falcons did in 2024, something they struggled to do at times with Kirk Cousins under center. The Athletic’s Josh Kendall also adds “The coaching staff won’t ask Penix to curtail his aggressiveness. In fact, it’s the trait they are most excited about.” A more balanced offensive approach could raise all ships in Atlanta — and it’s something that might be necessary for them as they try to stave off regression with almost no new players added to the room.

“Hampton has a chance to be an immediate difference-maker in the run game, a player with the explosiveness to score anytime he touches the ball. And he could be getting the bulk of the first-team work early in camp,” Popper continues. This is hardly an endorsement that Hampton is going to be RB1 in Los Angeles from Week 1, but Harris’ eye injury has at least complicated things early in training camp. There’s a non-zero chance that Hampton takes the baton and runs with it before Harris is ready to come back.

Stroud attributes his shoulder soreness from early OTAs and minicamps that kept him from throwing the ball to “extra work” with the Texans training staff this offseason, which is the main reason this is notable. “I’ve been working really hard on getting my body right -- losing body fat, trying to be faster, stronger,” Stroud told Bien-Aime. Stroud is an interesting QB2 this offseason, perhaps someone who could get back to QB1 status if everything clicks in Nick Caley’s new offense. The price makes him an ideal superflex investment at the moment.

“To be clear, Rams coach Sean McVay finally has to commit to a significant increase in 12 personnel for Ferguson, a rookie second-round pick, to truly emerge this season. But the offense has trended that way at times, especially last season,” Rodrigue adds. It would be surprising for Ferguson to emerge immediately, but perhaps the Rams are getting ready to zig their offense in a new direction in 2025. The rookie tight end is lightly-drafted and best-approached as a dynasty asset, but it should at least be on the radar that he produces sooner than expected.

He will make $30.1 million per season, eclipsing the $30 million per season that Derek Stingley Jr. signed earlier this offseason by a mere $100,000 per year. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that Gardner is due $85.653 million in guarantees and that this extension will tie him to the Jets for the next six seasons. Gardner had a down 2024 after posting coverage grades of 90.8 and 90.0 in his first two years, but is generally expected to bounce back in HC Aaron Glenn’s more aggressive, man-focused system in 2025. This concludes major extensions for the Jets and they’ve done exceedingly rational things under Glenn and GM Darren Mougey.

Person notes “the arrival of No. 8 pick Tetairoa McMillan should take some pressure off Legette.” Legette’s eight drops in his rookie season were dispiriting, but the second-year receiver should hold a major role in Carolina’s passing game again in 2025 and he struggled to stay healthy last year. Legette makes for a good WR4/WR5 stab as someone with an ostensible path to a lot of playing time, even if on paper he would seem to be behind McMillan and Adam Thielen in the target pecking order.

Gibbs had an incredible season as a receiver in 2024, with a 74.8 PFF grade and 11.2 YAC per reception. He split out wide on 39 snaps in 2024 and 45 more in 2023. This shouldn’t cause a major reckoning of Gibbs’ fantasy value — we already know he’s great and that the Lions want to put the ball in his hands — but it could be a nice boon for PPR formats if Gibbs was more involved in the passing game.

Loveland did decline to say definitively that he’ll be out on the field when training camp begins, but there’s no real reason to be worried about his shoulder as we enter August. Loveland will likely face snap challenges in his rookie year with Cole Kmet retaining a real role in Chicago’s offense. Still, it’s undeniable that the rookie has major upside at a tough position for fantasy production.

Wilson becoming the Joe Flacco of the late 2020s sounds fun, but he’ll need to play better than he did in the last two seasons to make it happen. “Just believe. Why not?” Wilson told Sports Illustrated’s Connor Orr. Wilson’s first step in making it five more seasons is putting up a productive enough debut season with the Giants for Jaxson Dart’s debut to be pushed off into December or January.