The Commanders are adding an experienced running back.
According to multiple reports, Rachaad White is signing a one-year deal with Washington.
White, 27, just completed his rookie contract with the Buccaneers. In 2025, he appeared in all 17 games with eight starts. He rushed for 572 yards with four touchdowns and caught 40 passes for 218 yards.
The deal will reunite White with quarterback Jayden Daniels, as the two were college teammates at Arizona State.
In his 67 career games with 48 starts, White has rushed for 2,656 yards with 14 touchdowns. He’s also caught 205 passes for 1,450 yards with 11 touchdowns.
Bucs Clips
Wide receiver Mike Evans opted to make a major change this offseason when he left Tampa after 12 seasons in order to sign with the 49ers.
Evans met the media for the first time since agreeing to switch teams for the first time in his NFL career and said he considered a number of options before deciding to move forward with the Niners. He noted that the team is coming off of a strong season that ended with a loss to the Seahawks in the divisional round of the playoffs and shared his belief that they “were one piece away” from going all the way.
“I feel like I am that piece,” Evans said, via multiple reporters.
The 49ers never had Brandon Aiyuk last season and he’s expected to be released soon. Kendrick Bourne has agreed to sign with the Cardinals and Jauan Jennings appears likely to depart as a free agent as well, so the 49ers may still need to add some more pieces to the receiver room even with Evans in the fold.
The new Daniel Jones contract is impressive. Impressive enough to make a major impression on other quarterbacks who had existing deals.
Two are worth mentioning for now: Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold and Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield.
Darnold, who (like Jones) left Minnesota in free agency a year ago, signed in 2025 a three-year, $33.5 million per year deal with the Seahawks. He’s due to make $27.5 million in 2026 and $35.5 million in 2027.
Jones, meanwhile, will make $44 million over the next two years, with up to $12 million in incentives.
So that’s $63 million for Darnold over two years, and $88 million for Jones.
Even before Jones did his deal, Darnold deserved a new contract. He outperformed expectations.
If he had underperformed, the Seahawks would have cut him. That’s an example of the one-way nature of NFL contracts. The team can tear it up if the player doesn’t perform at a high enough level. If the player overshoots the value of the deal, he’s stuck.
Then there’s Mayfield. He’s due to make $40 million this year, with a cap number of $52.975 million. He’s in line for an extension, and the Jones deal will (or should) be the starting point.
As veteran quarterbacks go, there’s a broad range of earning capacity. For those well under the $60 million maximum, deals like the one between the Colts and Jones should have a significant impact.
The Buccaneers are bringing in a possible free agent addition for a visit.
According to multiple reports, they are meeting with defensive end Al-Quadin Muhammad on Thursday. Muhammad was the No. 59 player on PFT’s list of this year’s top free agents.
Muhammad set a career high with 11 sacks while playing a rotational role for the Lions during the 2025 season. Muhammad also had three sacks in nine games after joining the team the previous year.
Muhammad also played in 80 games for the Saints, Colts and Bears before landing with the Lions.
The Buccaneers lost a defensive lineman when Logan Hall agreed to sign with the Texans this week.
The Lions are adding to their secondary.
Detroit is signing cornerback Christian Izien to a one-year deal, according to multiple reports.
Izien, 25, joined Tampa Bay as an underrated free agent in 2023. He appeared in 17 games with four starts as a rookie before playing 14 games with 10 starts in 2024. He was on the field for 14 games with one start in 2025, getting 50 percent of special teams reps in games played, along with 20 percent of defensive snaps.
He’s tallied five passes defensed, three interceptions, and three forced fumbles in his 45 career games.
The Buccaneers did not place a restricted free agent tender on Izien earlier this month, making him an unrestricted free agent available to sign with any team. The Bucs reportedly had interest in bringing him back, but were unable to do so.
The rivalry between the Panthers and the Buccaneers has gotten a little boost.
NFL Media reports that former Panthers defensive lineman A’Shawn Robinson will be signing a one-year, $10 million deal with Tampa Bay.
Via NFL Media, Robinson had been due to make $8.5 million with Carolina in 2026. If that’s accurate, the Panthers should have traded him.
Robinson, 31, was a second-round pick of the Lions in 2016. After four years in Detroit, he spend three years with the Rams, one with the Giants, and two with the Panthers.
He has 143 regular-season appearances, with 106 starts.
The Buccaneers are bringing in a new backup quarterback.
Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Jake Browning plans to sign with Tampa Bay on a one-year deal.
Browning, 29, had been with Cincinnati since 2021. His longest starting stint came in 2023 after Joe Burrow suffered a significant wrist injury. That season, Browning completed 70.4 percent of his passes for 1,936 yards with 12 touchdowns and seven interceptions, leading the Bengals to a 4-3 record in his seven starts.
Things did not go as well for Browning in 2025 after another Burrow injury, as he completed 64.8 percent of his passes for 771 yards with six touchdowns and eight interceptions, going 0-3 in his three starts. The Bengals traded for Joe Flacco, who started the rest of the way until Burrow returned.
Browning entered the league as an undrafted free agent with the Vikings in 2019, sticking with the team through 2021.
He’ll now head down to Florida to back up Baker Mayfield.
Here’s reason number 2,335,795 why the change in Twitter ownership has made the platform far less valuable.
A blue-checked account purporting to belong to Buccaneers receiver Emeka Egbuka posted this on the app at 2:27 p.m. ET on Wednesday: “Is CTE even real?”
The gold-checked Buccaneers Communications account reposted it exactly an hour later with this message: “The below account is neither owned nor operated by Emeka Egbuka. It is in no way affiliated with Emeka or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.”
Complicating the situation is the fact that the account is followed by the gold-checked account of the NFL Players Association. It also has more than 7,500 followers.
It looks like Egbuka’s account. Especially since it carries the blue check that, under prior management, meant something. Nowadays, it’s nothing more than a source of confusion.
The Texans have agreed to terms with free agent defensive lineman Logan Hall on a two-year, $7 million deal, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports.
Hall, who turns 26 next month, entered the NFL as a second-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2022. He spent his first four seasons in Tampa.
Hall has played all but two games in his career.
In 2025, he appeared in all 17 games, with 16 starts, and totaled 39 tackles and 1.5 sacks.
He has recorded 101 tackles, 10 sacks, 23 quarterback hits and four passes defensed in his career.
Teddy Bridgewater is returning as Jared Goff’s backup.
Detroit has agreed to terms with the quarterback, NFL Media reports, though terms were undisclosed.
Bridgewater originally signed with the Lions in 2023, and he came out of retirement late in the 2024 season to return to Detroit. In 2025, he left for Tampa.
Bridgewater, 33, has not started a game since 2022, throwing only 15 passes since then.
NFL Media also reports the Lions are re-signing cornerback Rock Ya-Sin to a one-year, $4 million deal.
Ya-Sin, 29, joined the Lions in 2025. He appeared in 17 games with six starts, seeing action on 611 defensive snaps and 186 on special teams.
He totaled 47 tackles and nine pass breakups in 2025.
