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  • FA Head Coach
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    Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he did not talk to Colorado head coach Deion Sanders about the team’s head coaching vacancy.
    Jones characterized his January discussions with Sanders — who played for Dallas from 1995 to 1999 — as a mere chat between old friends. “Just a conversation about the team, and about where he is, and his boys, conversation with his boys, that type of conversation,” Jones said. “I’ve said I’ve talked to a lot of coaches, and Deion has a job.” Jones would have had to buy out the remaining years on Sanders’ contract with the University of Colorado and make him a highly-paid NFL head coach if he were to have pursued Sanders after Mike McCarthy’s departure. The Cowboys settled on Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach — his first head coaching gig after 14 years of serving as offensive coordinator for four teams.
  • DAL Coaching Staff
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    Cowboys hired Steve Shimko to fill their vacant quarterbacks coach position.
    Shimko served as the team’s offensive analyst in 2024 and will get an in-house promotion to quarterbacks coach, marking the final offensive hire of this coaching cycle for the retooling Cowboys. Shimko worked with new offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer with the Seahawks during the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
  • DAL Coaching Staff
    Cowboys hired Ken Dorsey as pass game specialist.
    Dorsey was being considered for the then-vacant offensive coordinator position in Dallas before ultimately being hired as a pass game specialist. Dorsey served as the offensive coordinator for the Bills and Browns the previous three seasons and will now settle for a less prominent role for the Cowboys. He’ll join Brian Schottenheimer’s staff, someone with far more experience in developing the run game than he does through the air.
  • DEN Linebacker #49
    Broncos LB Alex Singleton (knee) has resumed running.
    Singleton suffered a torn ACL in Week 3 but has vowed to be ready by the start of training camp. The 31-year-old linebacker is in the final year of a three-year, $18 million deal he signed in 2023, and totaled 31 tackles and three interceptions in the three games he appeared in last season. Assuming he’s at full health in 2025, his return will be a welcomed one by a Broncos defense that finished third in points allowed last season.
  • SF Wide Receiver #1
    NBC Sports Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco lists the Bills, Chargers, Commanders, Steelers, and Texans as best fits for a Deebo Samuel trade.
    These are all teams that check the competing for a title, obvious wideout need, and/or ties to former 49ers personnel boxes. Maiocco writes that Samuel produces better in zone coverage. For a team like the Bills or Chargers, he’d add on to their run-game structure by giving them an ancillary runner and end around threat out of the backfield. It’s likely that these teams will all be bandied about as destinations for Samuel, Cooper Kupp, and most of the other big names on the market outside of Tee Higgins this offseason.
  • Patriots released OL Chukwuma Okorafor.
    Okorafor was placed on the exempt/left squad list in Week 2 of this season after starting New England’s first game and never returned to the Patriots. He is free to sign with a team immediately after being released. Okorafor started 48 games in three seasons at tackle for Pittsburgh from 2020-2022 before becoming a part-time player in 2023. Entering his age-28 season, it’s possible he catches on elsewhere in 2025.
  • CLE Cornerback #0
    The Athletic’s Zac Jackson writes that the Commanders could be “a candidate” to trade for Browns CB Greg Newsome II.
    Newsome II has a $13.3 million cap hit, but all of it goes away if the Browns can find a trade partner willing to take the former first-round pick on his fifth-year option. Newsome II was hampered by a hamstring injury last season and only played in 13 games before being placed on injured reserve in December. Given the Commanders’ need at the position and how flush with cap space they are, the pairing makes some sense. It’s likely that, given Cleveland’s cap problems, Newsome II will be available for any team wanting to make a bid on him.
    Commanders among 'interesting' spots for Samuel
    Matthew Berry, Jay Croucher and Connor Rogers discuss the report of the San Francisco 49ers allowing wide receiver Deebo Samuel to seek a trade, and examine potential landing spots.
  • ATL Quarterback #18
    The Athletic’s Zac Jackson writes that the Browns might “only be able to afford” a bridge quarterback like Kirk Cousins or Daniel Jones.
    The supposition in Cleveland is that the Browns will take a quarterback at No. 2 overall, with Mary Kay Cabot calling it “likely” in a column about the Myles Garrett trade demand yesterday. The Browns enter the offseason $30 million over the cap per OverTheCap and that’s before they potentially deal with a Garrett trade demand that could add to their dead money. If the Falcons were to release Cousins, he’d be a candidate to do a Russell Wilson-esque small deal with the Browns where most of his income is still being paid by Atlanta. The dots connecting former Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski to former Vikings quarterback Cousins feel real.
  • NYG Coaching Staff
    Giants hired Chad Hall, formerly of the Jaguars, as their assistant QBs coach.
    Hall spent the previous two seasons in Jacksonville as the Jaguars wide receivers coach and served in the same role with the Bills from 2019 to 2022. The hiring of Hall has already led to early speculation that the QB-needy Giants could be a potential landing spot for Matthew Stafford, who is Hall’s brother-in-law. Stafford and the Rams need to figure out his contract situation for next season, but if they prefer to cut bait instead, the Giants could be a team to watch. It’s all just loose speculation at this point, but it’s something to keep in mind as we move closer to the offseason.
  • SF Coaching Staff
    The Athletic’s Mike Silver “expects” Kellen Moore to have “strong interest” in Brandon Staley as a defensive coordinator.
    The Moore-Saints partnership is not actually, as an NFL national reporter would say, “officially official” yet. But all signs have been pointing that way for some time. Staley took on assistant head coach duties for the 49ers last year after washing out of Los Angeles in 2023. Given how poorly San Francisco’s defense played last year, he wouldn’t exactly be an inspiring defensiv coordinator hire for Moore. But Staley had a good track record on that side of the ball prior to 2023 and a Kliff Kingsbury-esque bounceback could definitely happen.
  • FA Offensive Coordinator
    NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reports Ken Dorsey is “expected to join” the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff.
    The role is undisclosed, but it feels likely he’ll get a passing game coordinator title. Dorsey was a rumored potential offensive coordinator for the Cowboys, but with the chairs this offseason largely set there outside of New Orleans, he’ll settle for a job on Dallas’ staff. Dorsey probably has some bounceback potential after being fired in Buffalo and let go in Cleveland following a failed pivot to a spread offense for Deshaun Watson, it isn’t like he was a terrible playcaller for the Bills. Brian Schottenheimer will likely lean heavily on him to help mend the Dallas passing attack.