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    Falcons signed P Matthew Hayball, formerly of the Saints.

    The Falcons designated Hayball as their exempt international player, so he does not count against the team’s 90-man roster limit. He played in all 17 games with the Saints as a rookie in 2024, averaging 44.0 yards per punt on 75 attempts. He did not play in 2025. Hayball will compete with veteran P Jake Bailey this year.
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    Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Bailey’s deal includes $5 million in guaranteed money. The veteran punter averaged 47.7 yards per punt last season while landing 33.3 percent of his attempts inside his opponent’s 20-yard line.
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    Stonehouse is familiar with new Dolphins special teams coach Craig Aukerman, whom he worked with in two of his three seasons in the league with the Titans. Stonehouse led the league in yards per punt in 2022 and 2023. He suffered a season-ending knee injury in 2023 but returned to play all 17 games last season. However, it’s worth noting that he experienced career lows in yards per punt (50.6) and net yards per punt (38.3) and landed only 30.1 percent of his punts inside the opponent’s 20-yard line—also a career low. With last year’s punter, Jake Bailey, still on the roster, it’s possible Stonehouse is being brought in as camp competition for the upcoming season.
  • MIA Punter #16
    Bailey joined the Dolphins on a one-year contract last offseason after spending four years with the Patriots. The former fifth-round pick wound up playing in all 17 games for the Fins, totaling 53 punts while averaging 40.7 net yards per punt, which ranked 25th amongst qualified punters. According to Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz, Bailey can make up to $5 million on his deal and is now under contract through 2025.
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    Bailey was drafted by New England in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL Draft. He made the Pro Bowl and was named First-Team All-Pro in his second season. The Pats inked him to a four-year contract extension last offseason, but then suspended him while he was on injured reserve late in the year. He was released at the end of the year and later filed a grievance over the suspension as it voided the guarantees in his contract. Bailey ranked 34th in net yards per punt attempt last year and had the highest touchback rate of any punter.

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    The Patriots suspended Bailey for the final two games of 2022 and voided his contract, making him a free agent earlier this month. Miami is the first team to show interest in the Pro Browl punter.

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    The contract includes $6.5 million guaranteed, runs through the 2025 season, and makes Bailey one of the NFL’s three highest-paid punters. Bailey has served as the Patriots’ punter since they selected him in the fifth round of the 2019 draft. With Joe Judge potentially running the offense, Bailey could see plenty of work this season.

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    The Pats surrendered picks No. 167 and 246 to move up for their “punter of the future.” Bailey (6’2/200) spent all four seasons as Stanford’s punter and kickoff specialist, averaging 43.8 yards on punts with a 59.5% touchback rate. Bailey is athletic enough to be a legitimate threat on fakes, and scouts praised his ability to generate hangtime with booming height on punts. His selection is likely curtains for Ryan Allen, who was re-signed in March.
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    ESPN’s T.J. Quinn and Juan Recio report that free agent DT Mike Pennel is a “person of interest” in a homicide investigation in the Dominican Republic.

    Carli Franchesca Guzmán Roche was reported missing on September 11, 2021. Her body was found in January 2026, on a property formerly owned by Pennel at the time she went missing, when the new owner was doing excavation work. In April, Pennel told ESPN, via a statement through his lawyer, “that he did not know, nor had any connection to, the person reported as having been found dead.” However, today’s ESPN report states that Pennel and Guzmán “had an ongoing relationship” and the two “frequently spent time together when Pennel was in the Dominican Republic.” Dominican officials have reopened the case and are “pursuing the case as a homicide, although no cause of death has been released.”
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    ESPN’s Ben Baby reports that Bengals rookie WR Colbie Young is competing for OC Dan Pitcher’s “passing target No. 3" role.

    Baby’s practice notes indicate that incumbent No. 3 WR Andrei Iosivas and No. 1 TE Mike Gesicki are the other two competitors for the role, and both players “had productive springs.” Pitcher also said RB Chase Brown “can sometimes be viewed as a slot receiver,” but those types of comments are common in the summer and rarely pan out in the fall. Iosivas and Gesicki have been helpful contributors, but the fact that the team is searching for an answer at the No. 3 receiving role is indicative of their ceilings. Pitcher believes Young is “going to fight and battle” this summer, and thinks there are things Young “can do quickly and help us.” If he can actually become the team’s third-most voluminous target earner, he could pay off as a late-round best ball pick.
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    Chargers signed fourth-round pick WR Brenen Thompson to a four-year contract.

    It will be very hard for Thompson to return fantasy value, but he sure is fun. When the Chargers drafted Thompson, OC Mike McDaniel hopped on the phone to tell Thompson that he is “going to do elite stuff” in the NFL. Thompson (5'9/164) clocked a 4.26-second 40 at the NFL Scouting Combine, and GM Joe Hortiz compared Thompson’s size, height and speed combination to WRs Tyreek Hill and DeSean Jackson. Chargers WRs Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnston appear to hold the Nos. 1 and 2 spots on the depth chart, and the team likes WR Tre’ Harris’ blocking abilities. Keep an eye on Thompson in training camp, but note that it is very hard for rotational players — assuming he earns a rotational role — to contribute in fantasy.
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    Omarion Hampton said new Chargers OC Mike McDaniel has compared him to Hall-of-Famer Terrell Davis.

    Huge, if true. For his part, Hampton seemed unfamiliar with Davis’ game but vowed to “check out his highlights.” This might seem like a silly summer storyline — and, to be clear, it is — but it does at least serve to highlight that Hampton remains comfortably ahead of free agent addition Keaton Mitchell, who has taken up lots of digital ink this offseason. McDaniel’s comparison means very little, but you don’t throw out the name Terrell Davis for a back you aren’t planning to be one of the cornerstones of the offense. Currently being drafted in the low-end RB1 range, Hampton’s ADP is sky high considering his limited rookie accomplishments, but he could end up being in the right place at the right time with McDaniel’s proven fantasy system coming to Los Angeles.
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    The Denver Post’s Luca Evans reports Broncos WR Dane Key has stood out among Denver’s group of undrafted pass catchers in summer workouts.

    This is qualified praise from Evans, but worth noting for deep-league and dynasty purposes. Key (6'3/200) has shown off “good speed in space” while nabbing chunk gains downfield. It will be very hard for Key to return fantasy value if he remains on the Broncos’ roster, but perhaps he could work his way into another team’s rotation if he is waived on cut-down day.
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    The Denver Post’s Luca Evans thinks Broncos RB Jonah Coleman will “probably” play right away.

    Per Evans, Coleman has been “heavily involved in the Broncos’ passing game,” flashing the necessary “open-field burst to be a threat on screen passes and choice routes out of the backfield.” Coleman (5'8/220) also possesses “enough stockiness to chip rushers on obvious passing downs.” Veteran RB J.K. Dobbins is set to handle primary rushing duties. Second-year RB RJ Harvey is practicing in a limited capacity following offseason shoulder surgery. Harvey is the incumbent receiving back and will ostensibly be given the chance to fend off Coleman in training camp. Three-player backfields typically create fantasy-unfriendly situations. If Coleman forces a timeshare on passing downs, it will be tough for him and Harvey to produce reliably. If one player can separate from the other, he could offer PPR FLEX value. This is worth following closely in training camp.
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    Falcons signed P Matthew Hayball, formerly of the Saints.

    The Falcons designated Hayball as their exempt international player, so he does not count against the team’s 90-man roster limit. He played in all 17 games with the Saints as a rookie in 2024, averaging 44.0 yards per punt on 75 attempts. He did not play in 2025. Hayball will compete with veteran P Jake Bailey this year.
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    Cowboys signed DE Charles Snowden, formerly of the Raiders.

    Bringing Snowden aboard gives the Cowboys a capable backup pass rusher. He tallied 10 quarterback pressures and two sacks on 52 pass-rushing snaps last year. He also chipped in 18 solo tackles and five TFLs, while earning a career-best 70.5 PFF defense grade.
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    Bills signed RB Ian Wheeler, formerly of the Saints.

    Wheeler, 24, entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Bears in 2024. He briefly spent time on the Saints’ practice squad last year before making his way to the UFL, where he played for the Louisville Kings in 2026. He was productive as a rusher, posting a 68/370/6 stat line. Wheeler will now compete for the RB4 spot behind James Cook, Ty Johnson and Ray Davis.
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    Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said he plans to move WR George Pickens around the formation more this season.

    Schottenheimer began this section of the press conference by saying that he was very pleased with Pickens’ playbook preparedness when he showed up for mandatory minicamp this week. He did not attend organized team activities, so this is great to hear. Regarding Pickens’ pre-snap alignment, he will not just play X-receiver this season — Schottenheimer notes that Pickens does not like doing that anyway. Schottenheimer plans to line Pickens up in the slot, and isolated on the front side, on the same side as the tight end. Pickens logged just 77 slot snaps last season and 891 out wide. Giving him more opportunities to run routes against safeties and linebackers from the slot will increase his fantasy-scoring floor and ceiling. Schottenheimer also plans to expand Pickens’ route tree and build elements of the offense around his strengths, noting Pickens’ slant route successes last season in particular. He’s a WR1.