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The Dolphins have recently jump-started discussions with Langford after putting their own free agents on hold to free up money for a Peyton Manning pursuit. Langford is expected to draw interest from the Falcons if he reaches the open market on Tuesday.

Kingsbury added that Daniels’ arm strength has improved since his tremendous rookie season, during which he threw for 25 touchdowns and nine interceptions while completing 69 percent of his attempts. Kinsgbury said there was no mandate from the team that Daniels — who played as a rookie at 6'4" and 208 pounds — put on weight during the offseason. Lamar Jackson took a similar path early in his NFL career before dropping the weight and returning to his original playing weight. Daniels should once again be an elite fantasy option as one of the most efficient mobile quarterbacks in the NFL.

Morstead will enter his 17th NFL season with the Niners after spending the past two years with the Jets. Morstead, 39, has played for four other teams since entering the league in 2007. In 2024, he ranked 25th in net punting average (41 yards) and a career high touchback rate of 11.1 percent.

Nabers, per Daboll, “won’t do much this spring.” He’s still rehabbing a toe injury from last season that has lingered since his days at LSU, though he had not required a procedure on the toe. Nabers, who was second in the league in wide receiver targets and third in receptions in 2024, should be a full-go for training camp barring setbacks to the toe injury. He’ll look to develop chemistry with Russell Wilson, Jaxson Dart, and any other Giants quarterbacks who might see playing time in 2025.

Pearsall missed critical practice time last summer after struggling with shoulder and hamstring issues and being shot in the torso in late August. The second-year wideout has tried to make up for lost time by working with Purdy in Florida and Arizona this spring. “There’s been so many moments throughout the year where [Pearsall] has run a route and I’ve thrown a ball and it’s just slightly off,” Purdy said in January. “And we know that, hey, once we get a real offseason together and we can talk about the basics, the fundamentals, the timing of concepts and everything and just get a bunch of reps together — dude, it’ll get way better.” The 49ers could lean on Pearsall and Jauan Jennings early in the season with Brandon Aiyuk (ACL) expected to miss the early part of the regular season and Demarcus Robinson potentially drawing a suspension for a DUI arrest in November. Pearsall’s performance against press coverage, Barrows said, could make him a valuable part of the San Francisco passing attack in 2025.

The Justin Fields-led Bears, according to Biggs, used screens as a way of countering pressure, “a tendency defenses were able to pick up on pretty easily.” Last year, 18 percent of Caleb Williams’ pass attempts were at or behind the line of scrimmage. He completed 94 of 99 screen throws for an average of 6.2 yards per attempt. Under new head coach Ben Johnson, Williams should continue using screens as an extension of the run game. “Wide receiver screens will be a part of just about every package, and the Bears have three talented catch-and-run targets in DJ Moore, Luther Burden. and Olamide Zaccheaus,” Biggs said. “They just can’t use the play as an answer for pressure over and over.” Burden, the 39th pick in the 2025 draft, was a screen merchant during much of his college career who ran 86 percent of his routes from the slot. He would benefit if Johnson’s Chicago offense features plenty of wideout screen plays.

Slater is awaiting a contract extension as he enters his fifth season with the Chargers. The former No. 13 overall pick has made two Pro Bowls while starting all of his 51 games played over four years. He is the Chargers’ starting left tackle and is due $19.05 million this season on his fifth-year option. A lucrative extension would get Slater paid for the long haul while also reducing his potential cap hit for 2025. The Chargers have been in negotiations with Slater, and while we have not reached holdout territory, this is an extension situation to monitor for Justin Herbert’s blindside.

Hart was a fifth-round pick by the Chargers last year, starting six of fourteen games and tallying seven passes defended with a forced fumble as a rookie. He suffered a torn labrum against the Texans in the playoffs and underwent surgery in January. Though Hart won’t participate in OTA’s, he expects to be back for minicamp.

Jaguars head coach Liam Coen made comments on Hunter’s practice status as a defender, saying the 22-year-old practiced with the defense last Wednesday for “fundamentals and techniques and communication.” He won’t practice offensively and defensively on the same day in training camp but Coen envisions that happening more in-season with “maybe a third-down day, in-season, where he’s playing receiver, but he has to go get some reps on defense...I don’t see us doing that any time soon.” The Jaguars head coach’s comments indicate Hunter will primarily be a wide receiver while slowly getting some time with the defense leading up to the season. As a defensive back, he may be used more situationally on third downs and other scenarios. Fantasy managers can pencil Hunter in as a wide receiver first, though there will be cases down the road where he will play defensively.

Tremble re-signed with the Panthers early this offseason after finishing his rookie deal out as mostly a blocking tight end. He’s expected to start camp on the PUP list. We’ll keep an eye on this one as August rolls around, but given the optimistic initial timeline, Tremble probably isn’t at risk of missing much time once the season starts.

It wouldn’t be overly surprising if Pitts was rankled at heading into the fifth-year option of his rookie deal without an extension, but this is the first we’ve heard of him missing any time, so we shouldn’t jump to conclusions. Entering his age-25 season, Pitts is a low-end TE1 at best for fantasy purposes. Given how little time Michael Penix Jr. got with the starters last year, it would probably have helped Pitts’ cause to be working with the young quarterback as much as possible this offseason.