Official 2026 Free Agency/Offseason/Non-Draft Thread

[Joemailman]

Talk about tearing things down and starting over:

Adam Schefter
@AdamSchefter

Miami Dolphins Dead Money for this season is now over $175 million.

Tua Tagovailoa: $50M+
Tyreek Hill: $28.2M
Jaylen Waddle: $26.3M
Jalen Ramsey: $20.9M
Minkah Fitzpatrick: $13M
Bradley Chubb: $10.9M
Terron Armstead: $10.7M
James Daniels: $4.8M
Zach Wilson: $3.8M
Alec Ingold: $2.0M
Jonnu Smith: $1.7M
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine: $1.6M
Matthew Judon: $1.4M
Jason Sanders: $663K
Cam Smith: $528K
Mohamed Kamara: $160K

[Joemailman]

Ian Rapoport
@rapsheet.bsky.social

TRADE: Broncos trading for Dolphins WR Jaylen Waddle.

Broncos get Jaylen Waddle and Dolphins’ 2026 4th-round pick.

Dolphins get the Broncos' 2026 1st round pick (30th overall), 3rd-round and 4th-round picks.

[Bretsky]

Yea. Gutes is really adamant that Morgan be able to play multiple positions so he wastes his first round pick instead of moving around the 7th. He is bad at his job of GM.

I would argue the drafting of Morgan over the guy we all pretty much wanted backs of the belief that Gutey is bad at his job of GM as well.

But Flower could you moved the OL if he wanted to as well

[ThunderDan]

That's not what I meant. What I meant was that by GB getting maybe a fifth or sixth for Rasheed Walker instead of the third most people thought they'd get, Guter has much less ammunition to make a trade for Sweat. Thinking you've got two third-rounders next year in the draft makes parting with a third a whole lot more palatable.

Got it, I misinterpreted what you were trying to say.

[Joemailman]

Yea. Gutes is really adamant that Morgan be able to play multiple positions so he wastes his first round pick instead of moving around the 7th. He is bad at his job of GM.

I don't think Gute is telling MLF who should play where on the OLine. Gute is not MLF's boss. Those decisions are being made by MLF and Steno.

[pbmax]

I forgot about the gun charge Walker faces in NY. That likely didn't help him at all.

[bobblehead]

He didn't beat out Morgan, Morgan had a good camp at LT. Banks and Jenkins were dealing with injuries and they needed someone to man the interior and Walker was a one position player.

Yea. Gutes is really adamant that Morgan be able to play multiple positions so he wastes his first round pick instead of moving around the 7th. He is bad at his job of GM.

[bobblehead]

Couple things on my mind:

Trevon Diggs? Haven't heard squat on the Packer front or anywhere else. Maybe the Packers saw enough in the limited time they had him? Just weird. It's obvious Packers need CB depth. He can't be asking for a shit ton of money.

Packers back up QB? If the Malik Willis experiment proved anything, you need a good back up in this league. A 6th rounder no name QB from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is not going to win you games if and when Love goes down for a spell. I heard rumors of Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and Jimmy Garoppolo, but just rumors. I don't want Jimmy Garoppolo - he's too old. Let's keep with the trend; a younger QB that hasn't panned out and are mobile.

Veteran NT? I think the Packers still need a veteran NT. Hargrave isn't the answer in my opinion. He can do it, but just be cause he can, doesn't mean he should. He's not the type of DT for taking on double teams, he's best suited for one gap and penetrate. Someone like DJ Reader is who the Packers should think about.

It's still early, so maybe the Packers aren't done yet.

The rumor is an Anthony Richardson trade. It fits the Malik mold. A super green athletic QB that needed time, and now that he has some time in his current team is done with him because he wasn't Lamaar on day one. He didn't play last year so we have no idea if he improved at all, but again, the mold is the same.

[bobblehead]

Walker's performance vs Bears in playoff game may have cost him millions.

And too many flags early in the season. But I'm surprised no one offered him more. I bet we could have gotten a 2nd for him in camp last year and let Morgan develop. It made the most sense then and even more now.

[Fritz]

]Sweat won't cost any comp picks.[/B] No comp picks are juggled or moved with a trade only with a signing of an UFA.

That's not what I meant. What I meant was that by GB getting maybe a fifth or sixth for Rasheed Walker instead of the third most people thought they'd get, Guter has much less ammunition to make a trade for Sweat. Thinking you've got two third-rounders next year in the draft makes parting with a third a whole lot more palatable.

[pbmax]

Tauscher and Bulaga like Sheedo Walker way more than many of the detractors in here.

Shocking that we probably overpaid our center with 10MIL and that is what our former LT who beat out Jordan Morgan received

He didn't beat out Morgan, Morgan had a good camp at LT. Banks and Jenkins were dealing with injuries and they needed someone to man the interior and Walker was a one position player.

[Bretsky]

Tauscher and Bulaga like Sheedo Walker way more than many of the detractors in here.

Shocking that we probably overpaid our center with 10MIL and that is what our former LT who beat out Jordan Morgan received

[texaspackerbacker]

The QB situation: we still have Desmond Ridder who as a Packer I expect to be better than he was with other teams - almost as good as Willis.

Trevon Diggs: he looked damn good to me in the brief time we had him. Unless there's more beneath the surface we don't know about - drugs, crime, lingering injuries, etc., I hope we keep him/get him back/whatever.

Pass rush: Assuming Parsons and Wyatt are back healthy, we are pretty damn loaded, not only against the pass, but now with Hargraves, against the run too.

[ThunderDan]

Missed most of the last two seasons with quad injuries? That sounds like Packer people to me!

I think Rasheed Walker’s low salary, resulting in getting a lower comp pick for Green Bay makes it less likely Guter deals for Josh Sweat.

Sweat won't cost any comp picks. No comp picks are juggled or moved with a trade only with a signing of an UFA.

[pbmax]

Couple things on my mind:

Trevon Diggs? Haven't heard squat on the Packer front or anywhere else. Maybe the Packers saw enough in the limited time they had him? Just weird. It's obvious Packers need CB depth. He can't be asking for a shit ton of money.

Packers back up QB? If the Malik Willis experiment proved anything, you need a good back up in this league. A 6th rounder no name QB from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is not going to win you games if and when Love goes down for a spell. I heard rumors of Trey Lance, Justin Fields, and Jimmy Garoppolo, but just rumors. I don't want Jimmy Garoppolo - he's too old. Let's keep with the trend; a younger QB that hasn't panned out and are mobile.

Veteran NT? I think the Packers still need a veteran NT. Hargrave isn't the answer in my opinion. He can do it, but just be cause he can, doesn't mean he should. He's not the type of DT for taking on double teams, he's best suited for one gap and penetrate. Someone like DJ Reader is who the Packers should think about.

It's still early, so maybe the Packers aren't done yet.

The Packers need pass rushers too. Hargrave gives them some push. If they need run stoppers those will be the cheap contracts signed late. Base D will be 4 lineman playing gap and a half is what I read as the safeties will be further back.

They will bring in a cheap and or young option for the backup QB. Ridder is the reclamation project this year.

Diggs has serious coverage holes (in anything but man however he guesses too often in man) and I don't know if he projects to be able to play the quarters coverage the Packers will be using on passing downs.