NFL - NEWS & NOTES

Chargers reached agreement today with veteran defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand, who has played 64 career regular-season games for Detroit, Tennessee and Miami.

 

He might come in handy for the Chargers

 

That's awful, but I'll like it.

 

Alexander Mattison how is he still in the NFL he's just terrible IMO

 

Free agent running back Miles Sanders plans to sign a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys, sources told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler on Thursday night.

Sanders was released by the Carolina Panthers earlier this week, saving the team $5.225 million against the salary cap.

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Kareem Hunt returns to Chiefs

He returned as an injury replacement for Isiah Pacheco. Now, Kareem Hunt will be sticking around.

Per multiple reports the veteran tailback has re-signed with the Chiefs. It’s a one-year, $1.5 million deal with up to $1 million in incentives.

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Cooper Kupp

According to multiple reports, Kupp has agreed to a three-year contract with the Seahawks. Those reports peg the compensation at $15 million per year.

 

3 years, $45M according to a 'source' at ESPN.

 

Fullback Kyle Juszczyk has returned, with a two-year deal. He was released earlier by the 9ers.

Per a source with knowledge of the terms, the contract has $7 million fully guaranteed. It includes an annual $250,000 annual Pro Bowl incentive as part of the $8 million total package. He’s made it every year since 2016.

 

Should be with the Vikings could have pushed and lit a fire under Nailor

 

49ers trade RB Jordan Mason to Vikings

The Vikings are adding a body to their backfield, and the 49ers are subtracting one from theirs.

Via multiple reports, the 49ers have traded running back Jordan Mason to Minnesota.

He gets a two-year, $10.5 million deal with more than $7 million of it fully guaranteed. The 49ers recently had applied a second-round restricted free agency tender to Mason, at a salary for 2025 of $5.346 million.

The 49ers and Vikings swapped late-round picks, with the 49ers getting a 27-spot bump from No. 187 in round six to No. 160 in round five.

Mason appeared in 12 games with six starts in 2024. The Week 1 replacement for Christian McCaffrey, Mason had three 100-yard games in the first four weeks of the season. He had a career-high 28 carries for a career-high 147 yards in a Week 1 win over the Jets.

Mason missed the last five games of the season due to ankle injury.

Aaron Jones re-signed this week; he’s the No. 1 tailback in Minnesota. Mason will give them a quality backup, along with a guy who can give Jones a breather from time to time.

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I can see a different approach to the Vikings offense this up-coming season and I like it. With the new additions on the o-line, 2 stout RB's, we might just see a good run game get established which will only help the play-action fake stuff to some really good receivers. When healthy, Mason is pretty damn good (captain obvious said).

Another morning without seeing Rodgers to the Vikings... I can breath a sigh-of-relief for the moment.

 

If you'd just resign yourself to accept the inevitable, you'll handle the hurt much better.

 

No way, Mr. Uecker, no way!

 

Is it just me..seems like the media is trying force Aaron Rodgers down the Vikings throat I do not want this nightmare anywhere near the Vikings time for the young guys you had your turn now it's there turn good or bad...but I'm hoping good GO VIKINGS

 

The Bengals have finalized new deals for receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. The news was delivered “exclusively” (or, more accurately, preliminary) to Jordan Schultz of Fox before it was distributed to other reporters. Both receivers have confirmed the development via the handshake emoji on Twitter.

Chase reportedly will get a four-year, $161 million deal. Although this part is (deliberately) vague, it would be a shock if it’s a straight four-year deal and not a four-year extension to the final year of his rookie contract, which was due to pay $21.8 million.

That makes the new-money average of $40.25 million an actual value at signing of $32.56 million. (And if it were a straight four-year, $161 million deal, it would have been presented as a three-year extension with a new-money average of $46.4 million.)

For Higgins, it’s a four-year, $115 million deal, with an average at signing of $28.75 million. To get that contract, he traded in $26.16 million in fully guaranteed pay for 2025 under the franchise tag and a straight-line shot at the open market in 2026, since the Bengals wouldn’t have tagged him a third time.

Higgins reportedly gets the first two years of the deal guaranteed; presumably, those years are fully guaranteed. Otherwise, it would have made no sense for him to give up the $26.16 million fully-guaranteed bird in hand.
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ESPN reports; Chase's deal has an annual average of $40.25 million, setting an NFL record for the highest average annual salary for a non-quarterback.