NFL News 2026 General NFL Off-Season News/Discussion/Non-Patriots free agents

[Hammer of Thor]

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

I can't imagine we go into the draft with our current WR and Edge rooms.
We are making moves, something is coming.

 

[festy1986]

The Patriots have a bunch of holes and a bunch of money to spend.

The only thing to be disappointed in is in who they get. Not if they do anything.

 

[Give Kraft A Hand]

Last offseason was pretty good. They’ll be okay.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

4 years, $124m for McDuffie, $100m guaranteed in some way.
Trent McDuffie agrees to four-year extension with Rams

 

[upstater1]

4 years, $124m for McDuffie, $100m guaranteed in some way.
Trent McDuffie agrees to four-year extension with Rams

Back up the brinks truck Christian Gonzalez

 

[Ross12]

4 years, $124m for McDuffie, $100m guaranteed in some way.
Trent McDuffie agrees to four-year extension with Rams

Now Gonzo is gonna get paid even more than that! That’s $31M APY, Gonzo gets what, $32M? $33M?

The guaranteed money is huge, I feel like some of that might be “fake” guarantees. Like it’s for injury only, or becomes guaranteed later etc. Many of the first-reported details on these deals this time of year inflate these figures and then the real number is much smaller.

 

[TommyD4207]

4 years, $124m for McDuffie, $100m guaranteed in some way.
Trent McDuffie agrees to four-year extension with Rams

They would have been better off setting that money on fire.

 

[TommyD4207]

Back up the brinks truck Christian Gonzalez

 

[n1997y]

Supposedly Baltimore gave up trying to re-sign him because he wants 25/per. That's pricey, but he's an All Pro caliber center and only 26 years old. He's also considered the top free agent hitting the market by some sites. If the Patriots can get him for 22 I'd be all for it. Then draft ineahnachor or Miller at 31 and the line is pretty much rebuilt.

Pats won’t spend $22 million on Linderbaum as their center when they’ve got their likely next starting center on the roster at rookie pay for another three years, and if he doesn’t pan out they’ve got their fallback plan signed for the next two years at $2.5 million a year.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Pats won’t spend $22 million on Linderbaum as their center when they’ve got their likely next starting center on the roster at rookie pay for another three years, and if he doesn’t pan out they’ve got their fallback plan signed for the next two years at $2.5 million a year.

I don't kno if they will do it, but I would.

 

[Brady85-23]

Today is like Christmas morning for the die hards!

 

[Ross12]

 

[Sciz]

Now Gonzo is gonna get paid even more than that! That’s $31M APY, Gonzo gets what, $32M? $33M?

The guaranteed money is huge, I feel like some of that might be “fake” guarantees. Like it’s for injury only, or becomes guaranteed later etc. Many of the first-reported details on these deals this time of year inflate these figures and then the real number is much smaller.

33 is probably the starting point. They’ll pick up his 5th year option for 2027, so the new money won’t start until 2028. That extra year of cap inflation alone explains the jump from 31 to 33.

 

[mayoclinic]

 

[KCSVEN]

Almost 48% of the 2026 cap space for the Dolphins will be dead money. They are taking a reboot year for sure.

 

[Borg140]

Dude should be a backup the rest of his career.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

Dude should be a backup the rest of his career.

He has taken enough scary headshots.
He should retire and enjoy life and his millions.

 

[NFL Mystique]

Gonzalez is going to get paid big time

 

[Keyser Söze]

Gonzalez is going to get paid big time

Yeah and it’s going to be a bad look for the franchise if it isn’t us who pays him.