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Golston (6'5/270), who racked up nine tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks in 2018, stands to once again benefit from playing opposite projected top-10 pick A.J. Epenesa. While teams may look to pay extra attention to Epenesa they’ll be doing so at their own risk, as Golston is talented enough to take advantage and win one-on-one matchups. It’s also worth noting that Detroit native also led the Hawkeyes with three fumble recoveries last season.

Buried outside of the top-30 wideouts in best ball rankings at times this offseason, Olave figures to be a key fixture in Moore’s offense as long as he can stay healthy. He likely would have returned from his second 2024 concussion before the season ended if the Saints had happened to have something to play for. Olave was practicing in full for most of January. It’s not unfair to consider Olave in the Tua Tagovailoa mould for fantasy purposes — a good player, but one with added injury risk — now that he has four NFL concussions in three seasons. But the reward may outweigh the risk at some point on your board. Moore’s No. 1 wideouts have never lacked for targets.

“We’ll see,” Reid ominously added. “He’s working his tail off right now, I know.” Rice’s Week 4 LCL tear puts him in a better spot than a few other notable injury returners this season, but we wouldn’t be shocked if he was brought along slowly in training camp. With Hollywood Brown and Xavier Worthy back for a second season together, the Chiefs have the luxury of slowly working Rice in. Still, this is a great update for Rice, who was on track for a breakout season with a 24/288/2 line in four games before suffering the injury.

Entering his age-39 season, Campbell is simply a marvel. A magnificent run-stuffer even at his advanced age (he had an 85.9 PFF run defense rating in 2024) and still productive enough as a pass-rusher to be a good third- or fourth-rusher on an above-average defense. With the additions of Josh Sweat, Campbell, and Dalvin Tomlinson, the Cardinals hope they have done enough to bring the floor of the defense up above where it was last season. It’s a good front on paper, even if Arizona’s cornerbacks make us a little weary of forecasting them as a fantasy-worthy defense in 2025. Campbell last played for the Cardinals in 2016, if you’d like to feel a little older today.

Havenstein was often on the injury report late in the season with the shoulder ailment, but this is the first we’re hearing of a surgery. Entering his age-33 season, the Rams will likely take another stab at replacing Havenstein in this year’s draft. If for whatever reason he’s lagging behind in camp, Warren McClendon would likely be the next man up at right tackle.

“I’ll have more to know about that after [this] month goes on - see how he feels when he gets running and practicing and everything else,” Bowles continued. This makes both Jason Licht and Bowles in the “quietly confident” section on Godwin’s recovery after the 29-year-old dislocated his ankle in Week 7. Godwin certainly appears to have a chance to be ready for Week 1, but we’re probably too far out to reliably forecast that at this point.

In true Jerry Jones fashion, he managed to start a bit of a firestorm by admitting that not only had he not talked to Parsons’ agent, he didn’t even know his name. ”I’m the one who has to write the check and Micah is the one who has to agree to it,” Jones told David Moore. “That’s the straightest way to get there.” Parsons then used X: The Everything App to say that he would not be doing any deal without agent David Mulugheta and that there “will be no backdoors in this contract negotiation.” So, you know, another day as usual for the Cowboys. They could have sewn up this Parsons deal months (or even a year ago), but that would have been too competent. Too boring.

Kyle Shanahan also mentioned that he hoped Purdy wouldn’t hold out of offseason workouts today. The general tenor of contract negotiations for Purdy is that it will get done, though it perhaps has not advanced as quickly as Purdy would have preferred. York’s comment about it happening “when he’s ready” is a bit eye-catching. But with the cuts that the 49ers have made this offseason, this isn’t really a matter of cap space so much as both sides actually agreeing on the numbers.

“Kyler is a guy we want part of this moving forward,” Poles said. Gordon blossomed in 2024 with a career-best 76.0 PFF coverage grade, mostly playing in the slot. Gordon has yet to play a full 17 games, maxing out at 15 last year, but has 17 passes defensed and five picks in three NFL season.

Another special teams ace finds a late-offseason landing spot. This will be Hardee’s ninth year in the pros — he made the Pro Bowl in 2022 with the Jets — and he has played 2288 special teams snaps compared to 116 on defense. The trend should continue in 2025, which means we will be blurbing him for his next one-year deal next offseason.

“It’s kind of funny to put all that time into him for the draft and wait five years later but having him on our team five years later, we’re excited to get to work with him. I just loved how he played the position, especially in college. He got the ball to the right spot, didn’t take sacks, would hang in there and get hit to distribute the ball to his playmakers,” Shanahan told reporters. We’re pretty sure this is just complimentary coachspeak rather than some deep Brock Purdy Will Be Punished for Holding Out lore, but as Sam Darnold’s 49ers tenure taught us, anybody with a pulse in the 49ers quarterback room is going to get some public love.