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Mattison was being used sparingly as a reserve, making just eight appearances and zero starts. He should be first in line for a call if the Ravens need a reinforcement along their offensive line.

Henley played through a torn labrum for four months while breaking out in his second NFL season last year. The 25-year-old totaled 92 tackles, 13 quarterback pressures, six pass breakups and one interception. He now has ample time to ramp up ahead of the 2025 NFL season.

Barron is one of the last first-round picks to sign, getting a four-year, $18.07 million deal with a fifth-year option. He joins a secondary with star CB Patrick Surtain leading the group. His last season out of Texas, Barron won the Jim Thorpe award for best defensive back and now is slated for the Broncos’ slot role. This leaves the Bengals’ Shemar Stewart as the last first-round pick unsigned. The Broncos have just RB R.J. Harvey unsigned among their rookie class - he is one of the 30 second-rounders unsigned due to contract guarantee disputes.

Rourke was selected by the 49ers in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft. He played through all of his final college season at Indiana with a torn ACL and was expected to miss time as he recovers for his rookie year. Expected to be placed on the non-football injury list, Rourke is unlikely to be an impactful backup behind Brock Purdy this season. Mac Jones will maintain the No. 2 spot on the quarterback depth chart.

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.