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Neal (5’11/213) received multiple Big 10 and Big 12 offers coming out of high school and chose to stay at home and attend Kansas despite the program’s dreadful recent history. He took over as the team’s starting running back from day one and ran for 707 yards plus eight scores on 158 attempts. He then played baseball for the Jayhawks in the spring, appearing in nine games. Neal topped 1,000 rushing yards as a sophomore before posting back-to-back 1,200-yard seasons on the ground. He also topped 200 through the air in both campaigns. Neal was the centerpiece of an incredible turnaround for Kansas, leading the team to a 9-4 record as a junior. They went 0-9 the year before Neal stepped on campus. Neal lacks top-end speed on tape and that was confirmed at the combine with a 4.58 Forty. He’s a safe bet to get what’s blocked and then some but isn’t going to shake defenders with fancy footwork. Neal’s track record of handling a large workload should earn him a role as a versatile backup, but a lack of special teams experience may limit his opportunities as a rookie.

This is not all that different than late May’s update that McVay gave when he said the Rams were making “healthy and positive progress” on said extension. Williams will likely sign an extension later this summer if the tenor of the two parties is to be believed at this point.

He did respond to a media member saying John Harbaugh’s idea of Jackson being the NFL’s highest-paid player by noting “it sounds good.” It’s not thoroughly surprising that Jackson is not forthcoming about the status of negotiations with the Ravens. We expect the sides will continue to negotiate as the offseason drags on, and all sourced reporting indicates that they should reach agreement at some point.

Corbin, 24, led the UFL in rushing in 2025 with 514 yards. Corbin has bounced around between the Giants and Panthers the previous two seasons after coming out in the 2022 class. He went undrafted. Corbin figures to be a deep backup who won’t be worthy of fantasy attention without several injuries in front of him. To make room, the Falcons waived RB Jase McClellan, who the team drafted in the sixth round last year. McClellan had just 19 offensive snaps in his rookie season and was only active for two games.

The third-year tight end missed several games last season due to a personal issue and spent the offseason being a rumored trade target. Mayer obviously won’t cut deeply into Brock Bowers’ snap share, but he has a chance to cut into Tre Tucker and Jack Bech’s playing time if the Raiders feel that Mayer is one of their best eleven. “I think Mike’s been outstanding,” Raiders OC Chip Kelly told reporters before noting that “I checked, you can play with two tight ends in a game at the same time, and sometimes you can play with three tight ends they told me. So, maybe we can get to that if we have to.”

With the Chiefs drafting Josh Simmons in the first round in April, Silver believes Simmons has a chance to take a starting job away from Taylor this offseason. Our last two blurbs on Taylor are “Taylor could be a backup” and “Taylor’s odds of being on the 2026 roster are not high,” which is never the trend you want to see when you have a $27.3 million cap hit in 2026. It appears the Chiefs are ready to wash their hands of Taylor’s contract sooner rather than later.

His deal was set to expire after the 2025 season, but Phillips tacks another year on to it. The 46-year-old was not a hot coaching candidate at any point this offseason and does not call plays on game day. Perhaps another year in the Kevin O’Connell halo — particularly one that paints J.J. McCarthy in a great light — will help Phillips gain some head-coaching interviews next offseason.

Yes, we’re that deep in the offseason bag. Person writes that Fitzgerald went 9-for-10 on field goals on the skinny goal posts towards the end of the practice sessions open to the media, while Wright missed both of his longer attempts last Wednesday. Dave Canales is quoted as saying “Let’s have them kicking in games, and we’ll be able to make the decision.” But for those of you drafting now or soon in leagues where you absolutely must consider who Carolina’s kicker is, here you go.

Stop us if you’ve heard this story before, but an unheralded and undersized slot wideout is turning heads in New England’s camp. Chism has head coach praise quotes (Mike Vrabel praised the 23-year-old as “a talented player” who is dedicated and “studied extremely hard”) and looked good in the team’s early offseason OTAs and camps. New England’s wideout room has enough depth that we’re hesitant to say Chism is even a lock to make the roster, but he’s someone to monitor as we look forward to training camps in August.

Zrebiec is not forecasting a major role growth for Walker, who is stuck behind Zay Flowers, Rashod Bateman, and DeAndre Hopkins in three-wide sets. But it’s possible that Walker comes to training camp and turns heads. Walker’s roster spot, if anything, looks fairly secure at this point in time. Walker played 57 offensive snaps last year and caught a 21-yard touchdown in three targets.

Not a huge surprise with David Njoku on the depth chart ahead of him, but Fannin has had “an impressive start” in minicamp and Fannin has left other Browns beats asking if he ever drops a football. We maintain low hopes for a huge splash year for Fannin in his rookie season, but he sure has an interesting dynasty profile right now.