Edge rusher Odafe Oweh is on his way to Washington.
Oweh has agreed to a four-year deal to join the Commanders as a free agent when the new league year opens on Wednesday. Multiple reports peg the total value of the deal at $100 million with $68 million in guaranteed money.
Oweh, who was No. 38 on PFT’s list of the top free agents in the league, was traded from the Ravens to the Chargers during the 2025 season. He had 7.5 sacks in 12 appearances for the AFC West team and added three more in their playoff loss to the Patriots.
The Ravens drafted Oweh in the first round in 2021 and he had 25 sacks in 72 appearances with the team.
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Running back J.K. Dobbins wants to be a “Bronco for life.” He’ll be a Broncos for at least one more year, maybe two.
Via Zac Stevens of DNVR Sports, Dobbins and the Broncos have agreed to a two-year deal.
Dobbins had 772 rushing yards in 10 games for the Broncos last year; a Week 10 foot injury ended his season.
When healthy, he’s effective. He averaged 5.0 yards per carry in 2025. For his career, his per-carry average is 5.2 yards.
The issue has been staying healthy. He played 15 games as a rookie in 2020.
The second-round pick spent four years with the Ravens. He suffered a torn Achilles tendon in the first game of his final season in Baltimore.
He gained a career-high 905 rushing yards with the Chargers in 2024, before joining the Broncos for 2025.
The agreement will couple Dobbins with RJ Harvey as the one-two punch in the backfield for the Broncos.
The Chargers are signing tight end Charlie Kolar to a three-year, $24.3 million contract, NFL Media reports.
Kolar leaves one Harbaugh for another, having spent his first four seasons in Baltimore with John Harbaugh.
Kolar, 27, entered the NFL as a fourth-round pick in 2022.
He has played 47 games with 13 starts in his career, totaling 30 catches for 409 yards and four touchdowns.
In 2025, Kolar made 10 catches for 142 yards and two touchdowns.
As of last Monday, the word on veteran pass rusher Khalil Mack was that he planned to explore all options in free agency. On Saturday, he agreed to terms on a one-year deal to stay with the Chargers.
So what happened to exploring free agency? Since the negotiating window doesn’t open until noon ET on Monday, how could he have explored all options?
The obvious answer is tampering. Everyone does it, and it’s getting more and more rampant.
By the weekend before the official opening of free agency, the players know what’s behind Door No. 1, Door No. 2, and Door No. Whatever. They can make an informed decision about whether to stay where they are.
In a situation like this, tampering helped the Chargers get a deal done. Mack was able to explore his options and then decide to accept his current team’s best offer.
It also helped the Chargers avoid having to find a replacement in free agency. Their one-year, $18 million offer to Mack surely was made after they explored who else would be available, and what their agents were looking for.
But that’s why so many players have been re-signing with their current teams so close to free agency. They didn’t get cold feet about testing the market. The tests were already conducted before the offers from their current teams were accepted.
The Chargers have agreed to terms with veteran fullback Alec Ingold on a two-year, $7.5 million deal, NFL Media reports. The annual average of $3.75 million puts Ingold in a tie with San Francisco’s Kyle Juszczyk for the NFL’s highest-paid fullback.
The Dolphins released Ingold last week as he was scheduled to make $3.55 million in 2026 with a cap hit of more than $5 million.
Ingold follows Mike McDaniel from Miami to Los Angeles, as the Chargers’ new offensive coordinator uses a fullback more than 30 percent of the time.
Ingold played three seasons for the Raiders and four with the Dolphins. In 2025, he 363 plays — 37 percent of the offensive snaps — in 17 games and he had 10 touches for 61 yards and five first downs.
He made the Pro Bowl in 2023.
During a dozen years in Tampa, receiver Mike Evans has quietly pieced together a strong case for Canton. The next chapter could be coming with a new team.
Evans becomes a free agent on Monday. Two years ago, he re-signed with the Buccaneers before hitting the market.
Teammate Chris Godwin, who opted to stay with the Bucs during free agency a year ago, can’t process the possibility of Evans playing elsewhere.
“It would be so weird,” Godwin said, via Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. “I can’t imagine talking to him on a different field and seeing him in a different jersey. . . .
’I hope that he’s here. I don’t know the intricacies of the deal. Everybody does their own thing. I don’t know what he’s willing to take and I don’t know what they’re willing to offer. But I hope that he’s back, for a lot of reasons, but he’s my brother.”
As Stroud notes, Evans will have interest elsewhere. Possibilities include the 49ers, Chargers, Commanders, and Giants.
It all comes down to money. Chances are that the terms already are in place, with the only thing standing in the way of the news breaking is the clock striking 12 on Monday afternoon.
Evans had 11 straight 1,000-yard seasons with the Buccaneers, tying him with Jerry Rice for the all-time record. (Evans holds the record for consecutive 1,000-yard seasons to start a career.)
With 866 catches, 13,052 yards, and 108 touchdowns, Evans ranks 31st in career catches, 21st in receiving yards, and 10th in receiving touchdowns. He was a member of the team that won Super Bowl LV.
Whether he joins a new team or stays put in Tampa for at least another season will be known soon.
Veteran pass rusher Khalil Mack had planned to explore all options in free agency. Two days before free agency opened, Mack decided to stay where he has been for the last four years.
Via Adam Schefter of ESPN, Mack has agreed to terms with the Chargers on a one-year deal. Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, it’s a one-year, $18 million deal — fully guaranteed.
Mack, the fifth overall pick in the 2014 draft, played four years with the Raiders before being traded to the Bears. After four seasons in Chicago, he was traded to the Chargers.
The nine-time Pro Bowler and 2016 defensive player of the year has 113.0 career sacks. He ranks sixth among all active players, and he’s tied with Sean Jones for 40th on the all-time list.
Although the deal was reached before free agency, Mack surely knew what else was out there before agreeing to terms, thanks to the rampant tampering in the days and weeks before the negotiating window opens, two days before the start of the new league year.
The Chargers signed center Tyler Biadasz on Friday and they also moved to hold onto three of their own players.
Running back Kimani Vidal has been tendered as an exclusive rights free agent. Vidal won’t be able to negotiate with other teams with the tender in place, so he’s set for another season in Los Angeles.
Vidal started 10 games for the Chargers in 2025 with Najee Harris and Omarion Hampton missing time due to injuries. He ran 155 times for 643 yards and three touchdowns in 13 overall appearances.
The Chargers also announced that they have re-signed running back Jaret Patterson and safety Kendall Williamson. Patterson ran 41 times for 159 yards and a score while Williamson had 14 tackles as a core special teams player.
There’s an interesting postscript to the news that former Commanders center Tyler Biadasz has agreed to terms with the Chargers.
Biadasz, contrary to published reports, never visited the Bears, per a source with knowledge of the situation.
Word of a Biadasz trip to Chicago emerged on Tuesday, not long after Bears starting center Drew Dalman, a 2025 Pro Bowler, abruptly and unexpectedly retired.
The timing and wording of the initial report made waves in some circles, given that it created the impression that the visit was happening before Biadasz was officially released by the Commanders. And while tampering is rampant in the NFL, blatant and obvious violations can quickly attract the attention of 345 Park Avenue.
In this case, there’s no there there. Biadasz never went to Chicago, even though the Bears still have an obvious need at a fairly important position on the offensive line.
The Chargers have found their new center.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Tyler Biadasz has agreed to a three-year deal with the team after visiting with them this week. The deal is worth $30 million.
Biadasz is available to sign with a team before the start of the new league year because he was released by the Commanders. He started all 31 games he played in Washington over the last two seasons.
The Chargers were in the market for a center after Bradley Bozeman announced his retirement last month. Biadasz was also linked with the Bears, who lost Drew Dalman to retirement and will now have to look for other options to fill the middle of their offensive line.
