Offensive lineman James Daniels signed with the Dolphins in free agency. He played right guard in Pittsburgh. For now, he doesn’t know whether he’ll be playing on the right side or the left side in Miami.
“They’re still figuring things out,” Daniels told reporters on Tuesday. “They just said during OTAs they’ll have a plan, but they just told me they’re still figuring things out right now.”
Daniels said he played both left guard and center with the Bears. And he’s not concerned about where he’ll be playing for the Dolphins.
“It really doesn’t — position-wise, left guard or right guard, it really doesn’t matter,” Daniels said.
He’ll definitely be playing somewhere. His three-year contract has an average payout of $8 million per year, with $7.255 million fully guaranteed at signing and $3.48 million in injury guarantees for 2026.
The other question regarding Daniels relates to the Achilles tendon injury that he suffered during the 2024 season. He said there’s no doubt he’ll be ready for training camp.
“The status of the Achilles, it’s going pretty well,” Daniels said. “I wasn’t lucky to have the Achilles injury, but I was lucky [when] it happened. I had surgery the first week of October. I’m on schedule, I’m on track, so I was really fortunate about the timing in the year where we won’t have to worry about anything this upcoming season.”
A second-round pick in 2018, Daniels has 90 regular-season appearances and 84 starts.
The Eagles have agreed to terms with free agent offensive tackle Kendall Lamm on a one-year deal, Peter Schrager of NFL Media reports.
Lamm, 32, will compete to replace Fred Johnson as the swing tackle on Jeff Stoutland’s offensive line.
He had back surgery Jan. 3.
In 2024, Lamm played 15 games with seven starts, seeing action on 511 offensive snaps and 63 on special teams.
He played four seasons in Houston, two in Cleveland and one in Tennessee before joining the Dolphins before the 2024 season.
Lamm has appeared in 119 games with 44 starts.
The Jets made Zach Wilson the No. 2 overall pick in 2021 to be their franchise quarterback. After three seasons, the Jets shipped him to the Broncos before last season.
Heading into his fifth NFL season, Wilson is with his third team, having signed with the Dolphins as a free agent.
He will backup Tua Tagovailoa in Miami.
Wilson, though, isn’t ready to embrace the “journeyman label.”
“I would like to view it differently,” Wilson said, via Joe Schad of the Palm Beach Post. “Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with being a journeyman, but I still believe I can be a starter in this league whenever the opportunity comes. And so, just trying to put myself in the best situation with the best team and coaches and do the absolute best that I can and then you know hopefully at some point you can get that opportunity to show what you can do.”
Wilson, 25, did not play last season with the Broncos, serving instead as rookie Bo Nix’s backup.
“Denver was a good opportunity for me to kind of allay the stresses of being an NFL quarterback and just trying to be perfect every day to spending more time with the guys in the locker room and growing that bond,” Wilson said. “I think that is always important. And just enjoying every single day of being there. So I think that’s always an important aspect, and then it carries onto the field of you just being more comfortable.”
Wilson started 33 games with the Jets and has completed 57 percent of his passes with 23 touchdowns and 25 interceptions. He said his understanding of the game is night and day from his rookie season.
That could serve him well this season behind Tagovailoa, who has missed 14 games the past four seasons.
“Luckily I’ve played in a lot of games in the NFL so far,” Wilson said. “And so it’s just the ability to step in and make the offense feel like nothing’s changed. From a leadership standpoint, just command of the huddle, getting guys the information they need on each and every play.”
Quarterback Quinn Ewers is set to work out at Texas’s Pro Day on Tuesday and he has a few visits lined up after he goes through drills in Austin.
Albert Breer of SI.com reports that Ewers is set to visit with the Colts, Raiders, and Cowboys. His visits with the Colts and Raiders would count as their 30 pre-draft visits while Ewers qualifies as a local prospect exempt from that cap with the Cowboys.
Breer reports that Ewers is also expected to meet with the Raiders and Jets ahead of his workout and that he’ll have dinner with the Saints on Monday night.
The Raiders traded for Geno Smith, but may have eyes on taking a rookie to develop behind him. The Colts signed Daniel Jones to compete with Anthony Richardson and the Cowboys have hinted they will draft a quarterback with Dak Prescott’s backups Cooper Rush and Trey Lance moving on this offseason.
The Vikings need a veteran quarterback. And they’re reportedly talking to one who hasn’t played since January 2024.
The Vikings are in communication with Ryan Tannehill, reports Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports.
As we hear it, the Vikings consider Tannehill a potential option. However, no deal has been discussed. Tannehill, we’re told, is very happy in Nashville. He has made nearly $200 million during his career.
The 36-year-old Tannehill never signed with any team in 2024. As we explained in September, was being “very selective” about his next destination. He would need to have a compelling opportunity to move his family.
The eighth overall pick in the 2012 draft (which also produced Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Nick Foles, and Kirk Cousins), Tannehill spent seven seasons with the Dolphins and five with the Titans.
Tannehill and current Vikings QB1 are represented by the same firm. That would make things awkward, to say the least, is the Vikings were to take the position that Tannehill has a chance to start, in order to get him to move his family to Minneapolis.
