Fullback Michael Burton is set for another season with the Broncos.
Luca Evans of the Denver Post reports that the Broncos have re-signed Burton. No terms of the deal have been disclosed.
The 2025 season will be Burton’s third with the Broncos. He also played for Broncos head coach Sean Payton when Payton held the same job with the Saints.
Burton appeared in every game the last two years and made five starts. He had 14 carries for 17 yards and a touchdown to go with 13 catches for 73 yards and another score. Burton is also a regular on special teams and has recorded 10 tackles and a forced fumble in that role.
Defensive lineman Cam Heyward may not want to go on a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers, but that doesn’t mean he’s opposed to sharing a locker room with him.
While Heyward’s blunt comments on his podcast about not wanting to recruit Rodgers to Pittsburgh drew a lot of attention, the longtime Steeler said on NFL Network Wednesday that he thinks it “would be really cool to have a guy like Aaron Rodgers” playing quarterback for the team. Heyward added that “I can’t be the guy who gets it over the finish line” because it has to be Rodgers’s decision to want to join the team.
There have been some misgivings about how Rodgers would fit into the Steelers’ culture and Heyward shared what he’d tell Rodgers about that culture.
“I would just say, you know, if you come to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the goal is to win,” Heyward said. “You know, we haven’t had the success we want, but the goal is still in mind to raise a Lombardi and bring that seventh one to Pittsburgh. We don’t really care about the glitz and glam of New York, but the focus is on good hard football, competing every day, challenging each other, trying to go from there.”
There’s no known timeline for Rodgers to make his decision and Heyward said he hopes there’s clarity about the quarterback spot “sooner rather than later” so that everyone on offense has time to work together ahead of a season that the veteran lineman believes the team has to approach with urgency.
Quarterback Trey Lance has not landed with an NFL team since his contract with the Cowboys expired earlier this month and possibilities for his next club don’t stop at the border.
Dave Naylor of TSN reports that the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders have added Lance to their negotiating list. The move gives the team exclusive rights to negotiate a contract with Lance in the event he wants to continue his career in Canada.
There’s been no sign that the 2021 49ers first-round pick is eyeing such a move, but Lance’s father Carlton did play for the team in 1993.
Lance spent most of his rookie season on the bench after being selected with the third overall pick, but took over as the 49ers’ starter to start the 2022 season. A broken ankle in Week Two ended his season and Brock Purdy’s emergence later that year led to him being traded to the Cowboys before the 2023 season. He did not play at all that year and he made one start for Dallas in 2024, so regularly playing football anywhere would be a big step up from the last four years for the quarterback.
Free agent wide receiver Terrace Marshall is making the rounds.
He visited the Steelers on Tuesday, and Aaron Wilson of KPRC reports Marshall will visit the Titans next Wednsday.
Marshall, 24, spent last season with the Raiders. He played seven games with one start and made three catches for 41 yards, while playing 140 offensive snaps.
He entered the NFL as a second-round pick of the Panthers in 2021 and spent three seasons in Carolina before joining the Raiders last year.
In his career, Marshall has played 43 games and has 67 catches for 808 yards and a touchdown.
The Seahawks signed wide receiver Steven Sims on Tuesday, the team announced.
Sims, 27, played for the Texans and the Ravens in 2024. He played 10 offensive snaps and 78 on special teams, averaging 5.8 yards on 21 punt returns and 27.9 yards on seven kickoff returns.
Sims went undrafted out of Kansas in 2019, signing with Washington. He also has played for Pittsburgh in addition to Houston and Baltimore.
As a receiver, Sims has 78 career catches for 704 yards and five touchdowns. He has added 25 carries for 174 yards and a 65-yard touchdown.
Sims, though, has made his mark in the NFL as a returner.
In 53 career regular-season games, Sims has 74 punt returns for 462 yards (6.2-yard average), as well as 62 kick returns for 819 yards (25.2-yard average). He has one return touchdown in the regular season and one in the postseason.
Sua Opeta will be back with the Buccaneers in 2025.
Tampa Bay announced on Tuesday that the club has re-signed the offensive lineman to a one-year deal.
Opeta, 28, suffered a knee injury during training camp last year and missed the entire season.
He had appeared in 38 games for the Eagles from 2020-2023 with 10 starts.
Opeta initially entered the league as an undrafted free agent out of Weber State in 2019 with Philadelphia.
Cornerback Chidobe Awuzie has found a new team.
The Ravens announced they’ve agreed to terms with Awuzie on a one-year contract.
Awuzie, 29, spent last season with the Titans. The former second-round pick appeared in eight games with seven starts, recording 26 total tackles with four passes defensed, an interception, and a forced fumble.
The Titans released Awuzie earlier this month.
Awuzie spent his first four seasons with the Cowboys then played three years for the Bengals. He’s recorded 66 passes defensed with seven interceptions in 94 career games.
The Raiders have brought in a new tight end.
Las Vegas announced on Tuesday that the club has signed veteran Ian Thomas.
A fourth-round pick in the 2018 draft, Thomas had spent his entire career with the Panthers. He was limited to just five games last season due to multiple injuries. He caught just three passes for 7 yards in 2024 after making five catches for 56 yards in 12 games in 2023.
In 99 contests with 54 starts, Thomas has tallied 119 receptions for 1,062 yards with four touchdowns. While he had 36 catches for 333 yards with two TDs as a rookie in 2018, he has not had more than 21 catches or eclipsed 200 yards in any other season.
For a player who’s been in the league since just 2019, quarterback Gardner Minshew has bounced around a bit.
After two seasons in Jacksonville, he was traded to Philadelphia. Then he signed with the Colts in 2023, moved on to the Raiders in 2024, and after being released signed with the Chiefs for 2025.
Minshew wasn’t on the open market for long, which was largely because he knew where he wanted to be.
“From the end of our season — when it seemed like I was going to get cut — I knew in my head that this is where I wanted to be,” Minshew said in his news conference late last week, via Jared Sapp of ArrowheadPride.com. “I took a pre-draft visit with the Chiefs back in the day [before] coming into the league. I feel like everything went really well — just talking to coach [Andy] Reid and understanding what they’re all about. I always knew that [Kansas City would] be a really good fit.”
Minshew noted he’s long been a fan of Reid’s offenses.
“I’ve always felt that was something that I could do well in,” Minshew said. “I feel like Pat came up playing in the ‘Air Raid.’ It was something I did in college as well. I feel like that kind of play style — of just understanding and feeling space and understanding leverage in numbers — really serves you well in the system.”
Now that he’s officially with the club, Minshew said he’s looking forward to being a support system for two-time MVP Patrick Mahomes.
“I’m super fired up to be part of just a winning organization [and] winning culture,” Minshew said. “I feel like I have so much to learn from how Coach Reid and everybody operates — [and] how Pat operates — and I’m just looking forward to helping in any way I can. If there’s any way I can help this team — whether it’s on the scout team, whether it’s helping Pat in meetings, whether it’s just bringing good energy to practice — I look forward to just doing whatever I can to contribute and help this team win.”
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.
