The Cardinals worked out free agent quarterback Tyler Huntley on Friday, according to the NFL’s transactions report.
The team has Jacoby Brissett and Clayton Tune behind Kyler Murray.
Huntley, 27, spent last season with the Dolphins. He started five games in place of injured starter Tua Tagovailoa and completed 64.7 percent of his passes for 829 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions.
He spent his first four NFL seasons with the Ravens.
In 2022, Huntley made the Pro Bowl despite starting only four games in place of injured starter Lamar Jackson. He threw for 658 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions that season.
In his career, Huntley has completed 64.6 percent of his passes for 2,786 yards with 11 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He is 5-9 as a starter.
The Falcons have re-signed cornerback Kevin King, the team announced Friday.
King, 29, played 15 games with one start for the Falcons last season, seeing action on 71 defensive snaps and 161 on special teams. He totaled 10 tackles, two pass breakups and a fumble recovery.
The Packers selected King in the second round in 2017. He spent five seasons in Green Bay, playing 51 games with 42 starts.
King sat out the 2022 season after an injury-plagued 2021 season that included a concussion and hip, knee and shoulder injuries. He missed the 2023 season after tearing his Achilles while working out in the offseason.
In 66 career games, King has totaled 200 tackles, five tackles for loss, 32 passes defensed, seven interceptions, three fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles and one sack.
Drew Lock is headed back to the Pacific Northwest.
Per Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, Lock has agreed to terms on a contract with the Seahawks.
Lock, 28, previously spent two seasons with Seattle. He was a part of the Russell Wilson trade in 2022, heading to the Seahawks after playing his first three seasons with the Broncos.
While he did not play in a game in 2022, he made four appearances with two starts in 2023. He completed 63.2 percent of his throws that year for 543 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions — highlighted by a 20-17 comeback victory over the Eagles on a Monday night in December.
Lock spent 2024 with the Giants, appearing in eight games with five starts. He finished the season having completed 59.1 percent of his passes for 1,071 yards with six touchdowns and five picks.
The Broncos selected Lock in the second round of the 2019 draft and he started 21 games for the club before being traded to Seattle.
Now back with the Seahawks, Lock is set to back up Sam Darnold in 2025.
Jets coach Aaron Glenn already has named Justin Fields his starting quarterback.
In replacing Aaron Rodgers, Fields will become the eighth different Week 1 quarterback for the Jets the past 14 seasons. It’s a role Fields is accustomed, unlike last season when the Steelers benched him after a 4-2 start.
“It was, of course, different for me and a space where I wasn’t necessarily comfortable,” Fields said, via Rich Cimini of ESPN.
Fields met with the media Wednesday in his first availability since signing a two-year, $40 million contract in free agency last month.
He said his benching didn’t play into his decision to leave the Steelers, who tried to re-sign Fields.
“You can’t take things personal,” Fields said. “That’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, not to take anything personal. At the end of the day, I was just excited of what the Jets had going on here with AG [Glenn] and just with the coaching staff, so it didn’t really have anything to do with Pittsburgh.”
At the same time, Fields admitted that sitting behind Russell Wilson was “a place where I wasn’t, really, never in . . . in my entire life.” In the final 12 games, including the postseason, Fields played 15 snaps in five games and threw two passes.
“Coach [Mike] Tomlin made a decision he thought was best for the team, and I’m never going to go against that,” Fields said. “I’m not a selfish guy whatsoever, so I just tried to change my perspective, get better each and every day in practice.”
Fields, 26, now gets a chance to start with his third time in his fifth season.
Free agent pass rusher DeMarcus Walker is visiting the Giants on Wednesday, Peter Schrager of ESPN reports.
Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen coached Walker in Tennessee in 2022.
The Bears released Walker on Feb. 21, and he has remained a free agent since. Walker was scheduled to make $5.2 million in base salary and count $5.916 million against the Bears’ cap.
He started all 17 games for the Bears last season but totaled only 47 tackles, 3.5 sacks and 16 quarterback hits.
The Broncos made Walker a second-round pick in 2017, and he spent four seasons in Denver, one in Houston, one in Tennessee and two in Chicago.
Walker, 30, signed a three year, $21 million contract with the Bears in 2023 when he last was a free agent. He had $15.65 million in guaranteed money.
Free agent safety Sam Franklin has agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $1.5 million with the Broncos, according to his agent, Harold Lewis.
Franklin, 29, spent the past five seasons in Carolina.
In 2024, he played 10 games, seeing action on four defensive snaps and 241 on special teams, while making eight tackles.
Franklin has appeared in 74 games in his career, with nine starts. He has played 782 defensive snaps and 1,327 on special teams and has 105 tackles, a sack, five pass breakups and an interception.
Last offseason, safety Justin Simmons didn’t sign with the Falcons until Aug. 15 — midway through training camp.
Simmons is once again a free agent in 2025 after completing his one-year deal with Atlanta. And this time, he would like to sign with a team a little earlier.
“I mean, that’s always the goal,” Simmons said in an interview with Kay Adams on Tuesday. “I think — yes, there’s pros and cons to training camp. Cons [would be] going through it, your body breaking down, the whole nine — especially as you get older. But, I mean, a lot of the pros is building that rapport, especially when you’re not with the team and you haven’t necessarily played with a lot of those guys. So, I think it would’ve benefited me to go a little bit earlier. But it also just wasn’t in the cards. I think Atlanta has a great young safety in DeMarcco Hellams and I liked Richie Grant’s game a lot. So, at the time, could they have added a veteran? Yeah. Were they looking to? Maybe not. Then a couple of guys go down in camp and it’s like, ‘OK, we’ve got to add someone.’ Then your number’s called and you go.
“So, we’ll see. We’ll see. I want to go to the best situation, and I want to go to a team that’s going to win. So, we’ll see what that looks like.”
Could he go back to the Falcons? It doesn’t seem like Simmons is counting on it.
“It was a one-year thing,” Simmons said. “They like kind of their younger guys, too. Sometimes things just don’t work out and you go in different directions. I don’t know if the door’s necessarily closed. But we’ll see.”
In 16 starts for Atlanta last year, Simmons recorded 62 total tackles with seven passes defensed and two interceptions. He’s now No. 4 on the active list with 32 career picks.
Simmons is No. 51 on PFT’s list of the top 100 free agents of 2025.
Tight end Lucas Krull has signed his exclusive rights tender with the Broncos, according to the NFL’s transactions wire.
It gives him an opportunity to remain the third tight end behind Evan Engram and Adam Trautman.
The Broncos also tendered outside linebacker Dondrea Tillman, cornerback Ja’Quan McMillian, defensive back Devon Key and defensive lineman Jordan Jackson on March 4. Tillman signed his one-year tender last week.
Krull went undrafted in 2022, signing with the Saints. He played one game as a rookie, seeing 11 snaps on offense.
When the Saints cut Krull out of the preseason in 2023, Krull joined the Broncos’ practice squad. He has played 20 games with four starts the past two seasons, seeing action on 465 offensive snaps and 163 on special teams.
Krull, 26, has 27 receptions for 247 yards and a touchdown.
The Falcons have re-signed cornerback Dee Alford, the team announced Monday.
Atlanta did not tender Alford as a restricted free agent as it would have been a one-year deal for $3.2 million.
He finished third on the team with 83 tackles in 16 games last season, adding a sack, a forced fumble and 11 pass breakups. In his three seasons in Atlanta, Alford has totaled 149 tackles, 1.5 sacks, one interception and 24 pass breakups.
Alford has played 48 of a possible 51 games with 16 starts.
He originally signed with the Falcons in 2022 after spending the 2021 season with the Grey Cup champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.
The Cardinals have brought back one of their veteran offensive linemen.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports Kelvin Beachum has re-signed with Arizona on a one-year deal.
Beachum, 35, has spent the last five seasons with the Cardinals. Last year, he appeared in 16 games with 12 starts, playing 72 percent of the offensive snaps in games played. He was also on the field for 11 percent of special teams snaps.
A Pittsburgh seventh-round pick in 2012, Beachum has played 179 career games with 161 starts. After playing his first four seasons for the Steelers, he was with the Jaguars for one year and the Jets for three before making his way to the Cardinals in 2020.
