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Ehlinger signed with the Broncos last offseason but didn’t make their final roster. He chose to stay on the team’s practice squad despite receiving 53-man roster offers from other teams. He bounced between the practice squad and the active roster throughout the year. With teams reportedly calling Denver about Jarrett Stidham, the Broncos are keeping Ehlinger around as a potential QB2 option should they choose to move their current backup.

Robinson’s free agency has been slow to this point in the legal tampering cycle, but he figures to be involved in a few places. We wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted a bigger opportunity than he figures to get behind Christian McCaffrey. He didn’t crack 10 carries in a single game with the 49ers after coming over in a trade before the season.

It’s worth noting that nowhere in this reaction to Day 1 did Dugar even mention “incumbent” back George Holani, who feels like a placeholder at the top of the depth chart while Zach Charbonnet recovers from a January ACL tear. The Seahawks will (our speculation) likely find a veteran back in free agency to head up a committee while Charbonnet recovers.

Kupp’s 2026 cap hit is $17.4 million, fourth-highest on the team behind Sam Darnold, Leonard Williams and Uchenna Nwosu. The Seahawks can’t clear much of it via a release, but they could trade him and save roughly $9.4 million if they found a taker. That sounds like a lot to ask. With a full season to implement Shaheed into the offense, we may just see Kupp become WR5 background noise for fantasy purposes.

A lifelong passion for snapping footballs as long as one can has turned into a lucrative career for DePaola, whose long snaps have sailed so long that they landed him in the Pro Bowl not once, not twice, but three times. DePaola, who is also a two-time First-team All-Pro, has been named team captain in each of the last two seasons, which explains the fully-guaranteed deal he received. You simply won’t find a better player or locker room guy to do what the soon-to-be 39-year-old does.

From The Charlotte Observer’s Mike Kaye, Ray has played in more games under Panthers DC Ejiro Evero than any other player on the team. He missed the first month of the season with a high-ankle sprain that limited him to 13 games on the year. Ray sees most of his reps against the run and will likely retain that limited role in 2026.

It raised some eyebrows when the 49ers agreed to terms with Lowe on Monday while Williams was reportedly available in trade talks. While it may yet wind up unfolding that way, The Athletic’s 49ers beats note that the 49ers have until March 20 to rework the deal — that’s when a $10 million option bonus is due. Lowe’s two-year, $12 million contract is a reasonable swing tackle deal if it comes to that.

It comes on the heels of a report from Adam Schefter that teams haven’t met Hendrickson’s asking price so far — it feels like the league as a whole has gotten together to tell Hendrickson that he’s not a top-dollar player at age-32 and coming off missing most of the year to a core injury. We’ll see how that settles, it’s still early in free agency, but it wouldn’t be entirely surprising if Hendrickson lingered.

Hobbs had a dreadful injury-ravaged year with the Packers, and only started through Week 7. ESPN’s Rob Demovsky reports that this is a post-June 1 release, leaving Green Bay with $8 million in eventual cap savings this year. Hobbs, who signed a four-year contract with the Packers last offseason, feels like a candidate to start elsewhere in 2026 if healthy. He won’t factor into compensatory draft pick formulas since he was released and is only entering his age-27 season.

The Falcons released Darnell Mooney and KhaDarel Hodge, leaving them with a depth chart behind Mooney of Olamide Zaccheaus, Casey Washington and Deven Thompkins. The Falcons, who lost their first-round pick in the ill-fated James Pearce trade, also don’t have many draft picks this year and could be less likely than most teams to draft a wideout that could challenge Dotson for a role. We’re not quite at “sleeper” status here, but we’re at least late-round Best Ball curious.

Newsome was traded to the Jaguars last October and started 11 games for them. The former first-round pick allowed opposing receivers to go for 48-582-5 against him on 73 targets, and has struggled over the last two seasons after a strong first three years in the league. Newsome played almost exclusively on the outside last season, but has shown enough versatility throughout his career to play both outside and in the slot. Newsome will make for a nice addition to a secondary that just lost Cor’Dale Flott to the Titans on the first day of legal tampering.