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S Jordan Whitehead Receives Full Clearance, To Meet With Falcons

July 30th, 2025 at 1:19pm CST by Sam Robinson

An injury sustained in a car accident sidelined Jordan Whitehead for the Buccaneers’ final two games, and the team ended the safety’s second Tampa stint before a roster bonus was due. Whitehead’s rehab process, however, has wrapped months later.

The veteran safety received full clearance recently, according to NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo, who reports the Falcons are hosting him on a visit Wednesday. Whitehead has extensive familiarity with the Falcons’ new defensive system, having played under new Atlanta DC Jeff Ulbrich with the Jets.

The Bucs gave Whitehead a two-year, $9MM deal to return after his two-season Jets tenure. New York did not place a top priority on retaining Whitehead in 2024, but the team was interested in retaining him. The parties separated after Whitehead played out a two-year, $14.5MM Jets accord. Last season did not go well for Ulbrich or Whitehead, with the latter missing time due to a separate injury — a pectoral malady — before the car accident scuttled his return.

Whitehead suffered a neck fracture in the crash, the Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Stroud reports. He had been on the way to practice before the Bucs’ Week 18 game. Overall, Whitehead missed six games during his second Bucs stint. The veteran starter, though, should have some quality football left, provided he can return successfully from this injury. The former fourth-round pick is heading into an age-28 season, and he made key contributions in both Tampa and New York.

One of the many DB draft picks GM Jason Licht made from 2018-20, Whitehead started every game alongside Antoine Winfield Jr. during Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl LV-winning season. For his career, the Pitt alum has 101 starts. Licht lamented letting Whitehead walk in free agency, but he helped the Jets during that short stint. The Jets rocketed from last place defensively in 2021 to fourth in 2022. They ranked third in total defense in 2023; Whitehead started all 34 Jets games during his tenure.

The Falcons did not re-sign Justin Simmons, capping that partnership at one season, but did make multiple offseason additions at safety. The team signed Jordan Fuller, who played under Raheem Morris with the Rams, and used a third-round pick on Xavier Watts. Whitehead would bring considerable experience alongside Jessie Bates, however. It will be interesting to see if more teams reach out to the recovering safety. The Bucs moved Tykee Smith to safety this offseason, putting the second-year DB in position to replace Whitehead.

Minor NFL Transactions: 7/29/25

July 29th, 2025 at 8:43pm CST by Ben Levine

Today’s minor moves:

Atlanta Falcons

Carolina Panthers

  • Signed: WR Ja’seem Reed
  • Released from active/PUP (injury settlement): WR Dan Chisena

Cleveland Browns

  • Signed: C Bucky Williams
  • Waived: C Brady Latham

Dallas Cowboys

Detroit Lions

  • Signed: RB Jacob Saylors
  • Waived/injured: TE Luke Deal

New England Patriots

New York Giants

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

Pittsburgh Steelers

San Francisco 49ers

Seattle Seahawks

There was a scary moment at 49ers practice earlier this week, as 49ers defensive lineman Tarron Jackson was carted off the field on a stretcher after suffering a neck injury. Fortunately, the player has since been released from the hospital (per Vic Tafur of The Athletic), but his placement on IR means he won’t suit up during the upcoming campaign. A former Eagles draft pick, Jackson got into three games with the Panthers in 2024 before joining the 49ers practice squad late in the season.

Falcons WR Darnell Mooney To Miss Time

July 26th, 2025 at 10:08am CST by Nikhil Mehta

A shoulder injury is expected to sideline Falcons wide receiver Darnell Mooney for a few weeks, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.

The injury occurred when Mooney dove for a deep ball during full-team work on Thursday and left the field with a trainer, according to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi. The sixth-year wideout could be sidelined for most of training camp, per WSB’s Zach Klein.

DJ Chark‘s workout was already scheduled before Mooney went down, but his injury seems to explain why the Falcons completed the signing yesterday. The team announced the one-year deal this morning.

The Falcons have a number of receivers who can step up in Mooney’s place during his absence, including KhaDarel Hodge, who played with the first team on Saturday, according to Josh Kendall of The Athletic. Veteran Jamal Agnew, who arrived in Atlanta this offseason on a one-year, $2.5MM deal, could also be in line for more reps. The same goes for Chark as he learns Atlanta’s offense.

Mooney’s injury doesn’t appear to threaten his Week 1 availability. He signed a three-year, $39MM deal with the Falcons last offseason and immediately turned in a strong debut season in Atlanta. He finished second on the team to Drake London in virtually every receiving category with 64 receptions on 106 targets for 992 yards and five touchdowns. Those were Mooney’s best numbers since 2021, and the team’s lack of investment in their receiver room this offseason shows that they believe in a repeat performance this year.

Falcons To Sign WR DJ Chark

July 25th, 2025 at 3:45pm CST by Sam Robinson

DJ Chark followed his Bears visit with a Falcons meeting, and the latter summit will produce a deal. Chark is signing with the Falcons, according to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo.

After playing the 2024 season with the Chargers, the well-traveled wide receiver will join the Falcons on a one-year deal. Chark trekked to Atlanta for a meeting today, Garafolo notes. This will be the former second-round pick’s fifth team in five years, as the Falcons follow the Jaguars, Lions, Panthers and Chargers on this journeyman path.

Chark, 28, will join a receiving corps housing Drake London and Darnell Mooney. The LSU product had met with his former coach, Ben Johnson, about a Bears meeting. Johnson coached Chark during his 2022 Lions one-off, but the sides did not strike a deal. The Falcons will take a flier here, as Chark is coming off a down Chargers season. He posted just four receptions for 31 yards in a seven-game cameo for Jim Harbaugh‘s team.

Suffering a hip injury that keyed an IR stint, Chark did not debut with the Bolts until Week 9. He cleared the 10-snap barrier on offense in just four games last year. That said, Chark has been a productive player at other stops. His Lions and Panthers seasons, respectively, brought 500-plus-yard showings as a complementary target. Chark totaled 502 yards (16.7 per catch) and three touchdown receptions with Detroit and posted a 525/5 line (15.0 YPC) for a dreadful 2023 Panthers team.

Carrying a resume that includes a 1,000-yard 2019 season, Chark had been a noteworthy deep option prior to 2024. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound player had seen his pay rate decrease steadily, going from $10MM (Lions) to $5MM (Panthers) to $3MM (Bolts). After essentially a throwaway L.A. season, Chark should not see too much from the Falcons. But he could step in as a WR3 upgrade in what could be yet another temp job.

The Falcons signed Mooney for his long-range prowess, and he delivered a 992-yard season (15.5 YPC) last year. Held back by previous Falcons QB issues, London boomed to a career-high 1,271 yards and nine touchdown catches. The Falcons have slot/gadget cog Ray-Ray McCloud rostered, along with special-teamer Jamal Agnew and backup KhaDarel Hodge. Chark brings a pedigree this trio lacks and will be a prime candidate for a key auxiliary role should he stay healthy.

NFL Minor Transactions: 7/24/25

July 24th, 2025 at 8:14pm CST by Ben Levine

Today’s minor moves:

Atlanta Falcons

Chicago Bears

Detroit Lions

Miami Dolphins

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

Pittsburgh Steelers

San Francisco 49ers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

  • Signed: G Michael Jordan, OL Tyler McLellan
  • Waived/injured: OL Silas Dzansi
  • Placed on reserve/retired list: OT Garret Greenfield

Washington Commanders

Following rumblings yesterday that Artie Burns may have suffered a season-ending injury, the bad news was confirmed today, as ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the Dolphins cornerback indeed suffered a torn ACL. It’s a tough break for the veteran, who’s looking to revive his NFL career after being limited to only four games with the Seahawks last season. The Dolphins were quick to sign a replacement, as Miami signed Cornell Armstrong. A former sixth-round pick by the Dolphins, Armstrong last appeared in an NFL game in 2022, when he started four of his nine games for the Falcons.

The Buccaneers did some shuffling on their offensive line today. In comes a pair of lineman: Michael Jordan, who started 11 games for the Patriots last season, and Tyler McLellan, a six-foot-eight, 355-pound lineman out of Campbell. Garret Greenfield, a UDFA in the 2024 draft, has apparently decided to hang up his cleats, and the team also moved on from Silas Dzansi with an injury designation.

The Commanders were looking ahead to 2026 today, as the team added an extra year to Percy Butler‘s contract. The former fourth-round pick has had some run in the starting lineup, including a 2023 season where he started 13 games while compiling 64 tackles and eight passes defended. He started five of 17 games in 2024 while establishing himself as one of Washington’s special teams aces.

Kyle Pitts Extension Not On Falcons’ Radar

July 15th, 2025 at 5:06pm CST by Sam Robinson

Earlier this decade, Kyle Pitts looked like a candidate to be the player who dragged the tight end market past $20MM per year. With Trey McBride and George Kittle not getting there with their respective extensions this offseason, a 2023 or ’24 draftee likely becomes the lead candidate.

Pitts has not delivered the kind of consistency necessary to warrant such a commitment, following his 2021 1,000-yard season with an injury-plagued 2022 and moderately productive 2023 and ’24 slates. Still, Pitts has proven to be a starter-level player — even if the return has not quite justified the Falcons’ No. 4 overall investment. But an extension does not appear on the radar ahead of training camp.

[RELATED: Kirk Cousins Felt Falcons Misled Him In 2024]

“No whispers” of a Falcons-Pitts accord have come out, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s D. Orlando Ledbetter. Pitts is set to play the season on a $10.88MM fifth-year option. An opportunity to cash in come 2026 would await the Florida product, though his path toward the tight end market’s upper reaches is murky.

Even if Pitts has not approached the heights of his 2021 season with Matt Ryan, he is among a small group of tight ends to clear 600 receiving yards in each of the past two seasons. Only Kittle, McBride, Travis Kelce, Sam LaPorta and Pitts have accomplished this. Pitts’ perfect attendance has helped in compiling yardage, and he said during the 2023 season he had not fully recovered from the MCL tear sustained in 2022. Nearly three years removed from that setback, the 6-foot-6 pass catcher should have a good chance at putting together a quality contract year.

The Falcons’ staff wanting to see more makes sense, as OC Zac Robinson was not in place when the team drafted Pitts or when his best season (the 1,066-yard rookie showing) occurred. Atlanta also did not give Pitts much to work with at quarterback during most of his rookie contract. Following the March 2022 Ryan trade, run-oriented offenses centered around Marcus Mariota and Desmond Ridder. Kirk Cousins elevated the team’s passing attack for a stretch, but poor play led Raheem Morris to bench the aging passer. As Cousins reluctantly settles into a backup role (for the time being), Pitts will be a key component in Michael Penix Jr.‘s development.

Penix making strides would stand to help Pitts as well, as he is only going into his age-25 season. Delivering this year will make Pitts an attractive free agent commodity, but the Falcons could also cuff him via the franchise tag. A few teams have unholstered the tag on a tight end in recent years. Since 2022, Evan Engram, David Njoku, Mike Gesicki and Dalton Schultz received tags. All four eventually scored an eight-figure-per-year deal — either with that team or in free agency down the road. Hunter Henry did as well after being tagged in 2020.

It cost $13.8MM to tag a tight end this year; a comparable 2026 price could be appealing to the Falcons, but their front office certainly has enjoyed plenty of time to evaluate Pitts by this point. Trade rumors circled Pitts for a bit, but no deal — Atlanta sought at least a Day 2 pick — appeared close. Should the Falcons start slowly, however, more trade buzz should be expected regarding the contract-year player. His summer foot injury will be something to monitor, however.

Next year could present a crowded TE market. Mark Andrews and Dallas Goedert are on track for free agency, after trade rumors followed both this offseason, while Kelce’s age-37 season would be available — though, the future Hall of Famer appears unlikely to leave Kansas City. Njoku and Noah Fant would also be available, barring extensions. Pitts’ age, however, would make him an appealing option were he to reach the market.

The Falcons have some time to make a decision here, but Pitts undoubtedly residing behind Drake London and Bijan Robinson in Atlanta’s extension queue come 2026 further complicates this situation.

Falcons QB Kirk Cousins Didn’t Want To Leave Minnesota

July 11th, 2025 at 10:12pm CST by Ely Allen

With the second season of Netflix’s Quarterback documentary series releasing earlier this week, Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports gave some interesting context to one of the more solemn storylines of the show. Two years after appearing on the show’s first season, in which he shined as the starter of a 13-4 Vikings team who led a league-leading eight game-winning drives, Kirk Cousins returned to the show at one of the lowest points of his career.

Coming off a 2023 campaign in which he missed the final nine games of the season with a torn Achilles tendon, Cousins found himself on the show with a new team. With the injury having ended a contract year for Cousins, his future in Minnesota had come into question. In a home interview captured in the series, Cousins harkened back to a separate interview from Atlanta’s trip to Minnesota in 2024 that highlighted the situation.

“I was asked by the broadcasting group for the game, ‘What about Atlanta made you want to leave Minnesota?'” Cousins recalled. “And I said, ‘That question is the wrong question. I didn’t want to leave Minnesota. There was nothing about anywhere that made me want to leave Minnesota. We wanted to be in Minnesota.’ But it became clear that we were gonna be there year to year, and that’s what we didn’t want.”

He continued, “At that point, we said, ‘Alright, we need to look elsewhere. If that’s our only option, then we’ll be back.’ And when we said, ‘Well, we looked around and we found there’s an opportunity that would be a longer commitment — would you be interested in giving us that longer commitment?’ (Minnesota) said, ‘No, we’re good with our offer.’ I said, ‘Okay, you made my decision really easy.'”

From that context, it’s easy to see how it all played out. Cousins desired a new deal with the Vikings, but coming off a serious injury in his age-35 season, Minnesota was weary of giving him anything long-term. The team was honest with him, telling him that they’d be willing to bring him back on a one-year deal and that they’d be drafting a rookie quarterback to groom to eventually replace him.

Unhappy with that situation, he heard the offer from the Falcons that included four years and $100MM in guarantees, a deal the Vikings were never going to touch. When Minnesota confirmed as much, he took Atlanta’s offer with the understanding that he was entering a better situation in which his status as the team’s new franchise quarterback was unquestioned. Then, the Falcons did the exact thing that led Cousins to leave Minnesota, drafting a first-round quarterback. As we frequently saw in headlines afterwards, Cousins and his agent were blindsided by the team’s decision.

Still, Cousins was the recipient of a shiny, new contract and had the keys to the offense. Unfortunately, it all came with a first-round talent breathing down his neck, something he had tried so desperately to avoid. Regardless, Cousins kept his head down, leading the team to a 6-3 start to the season before suffering an apparent arm injury in a Week 10 loss to the Saints.

Were he to have not had Michael Penix Jr. waiting eagerly on the bench for his first real chance at some action, perhaps Cousins would’ve recognized the minor nature of the injury and taken time to rest and recover for a late-season playoff push. Instead, likely fueled by the fear of Penix taking the field in his place and never ceding the job back to him, Cousins pushed through. What followed were some of the worst games of Cousins’ career. A loss of arm strength was evident, and as a result, the team lost four straight games in which Cousins threw zero touchdowns and eight interceptions.

Eventually, Cousins reached his lowest point and was benched in favor of Penix. The very thing he feared, the thing he left Minnesota to avoid, had happened, and it may have been a result of his fear pushing him to play when he should’ve been healing.

Now, he enters 2025 as a backup with the sixth-largest cap hit in the NFL. The same contract that drew him away from Minnesota and into the situation he’s found himself now remains as the biggest hurdle in finding a trade partner that would allow him to leave. With his $27.5MM salary fully guaranteed for 2025, the Falcons can’t cut him, but that figure is going to be tough to get another team to accept.

At the last report of the situation, there was no trade market for Cousins. Perhaps some quarterback-needy team — maybe the Saints, Colts, or even the Browns — will find some agreeable terms that allow Cousins a new change of scenery. For now, though, he projects to be the most expensive backup quarterback in the NFL.

NFL Staff Updates: Commanders, Falcons, Raiders

July 11th, 2025 at 9:27pm CST by Ely Allen

The Commanders announced a number of new hires and promotions to their scouting and analytics departments this week.

In the scouting department, Charles Brensinger was promoted from scouting assistant to manager of scouting operations for his fourth year with the team. Before Washington, Brensinger spent seven years in Detroit — five as a pro scout — after internships with the Lions in 2012 and the Giants in 2013. Fellow scouting assistant Mitch Sterner was promoted to BLESTO scout in his second year with the organization. Sterner started in the NFL working in video for the Colts and Lions before a three-year stint in New England as a pro & college scouting assistant.

Filling one of the newly vacant scouting assistant positions will be Austin Walter. A former NFL running back, Walter joined Washington last year as one of two Nunn-Wooten scouting fellows.

In analytics, Doug Drewry has been promoted from manager of football research & development to director of football research & development. A lifelong Washington fan, Drewry made the move from finance to football analytics, joining the team six years ago. The department also announced two new football research & development assistants in Dylan Riordan and Aidan McCarty. Riordan was promoted to the position after serving as a football research & development intern in 2024.

Here are a couple other updates to staffs in the NFL:

  • The Falcons have hired Alex Brown to a position as an area scout, per D. Orlando Ledbetter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This will be Brown’s NFL debut after a number of collegiate positions. He leaves his position as director of player personnel at Ole Miss after only a year. He spent two years at SMU before that, getting elevated from director of scouting to senior director of personnel/general manager of the Mustangs. He also held the director of football recruiting role at Rice after four years on the recruiting staff at the University of Houston.
  • ESPN’s Seth Walder reports that Jonah Lubin has been hired by the Raiders as a new football data science assistant. Previously a business intern for the Texans, Lubin was a semi-finalist in this year’s Big Data Bowl.

Kirk Cousins: Falcons’ Draft Plans Would Have Altered Free Agency Approach

July 8th, 2025 at 10:19pm CST by Adam La Rose

Last March, the Falcons’ decision to sign Kirk Cousins seemed to put to rest questions about their plans at the quarterback spot over the intermediate future. The following month, however, Atlanta selected Michael Penix Jr. in the first round of the draft.

It was reported in the immediate aftermath of that move Cousins was caught off guard by the Penix selection. Differing from the Vikings, the Falcons guaranteed the first two years of the 36-year-old’s contract, a key factor in his decision to leave Minnesota after six years there. In the end, both teams made Day 1 investments under center, with the Vikings selecting J.J. McCarthy two spots after Penix. Both are positioned to operate as starters in 2025.

Cousins initially declined to offer a firm answer when asked last year if knowing about the eventual Penix selection would have altered his approach to free agency. The four-time Pro Bowler is one of three signal-callers showcased in the 2025 edition of Netflix’s Quarterback documentary series, however. That has allowed Cousins to reflect on how things played out last spring, and his latest remarks on the situation make it clear he would have likely handled things differently had he known a first-round QB was in the Falcons’ plans.

“It felt like I had been a little bit misled or certainly if I had had the information around free agency, it would have affected my decision,” Cousins said (via The Athletic’s Josh Kendall) when speaking about the Penix selection. “I had no reason to leave Minnesota, as much as we loved it there, if both teams were drafting a quarterback high.”

The Vikings were willing to retain Cousins for 2025, but the team preferred to take a year-to-year approach knowing they were in position to draft his successor. Sam Darnold signed a one-year deal and enjoyed a productive campaign in Minnesota before departing in free agency this March. That leaves McCarthy – who was sidelined for his entire rookie campaign due to meniscus surgery – in position to handle QB1 duties this season and beyond.

Coming off an Achilles tear, Cousins worked as Atlanta’s starter through the beginning of the 2024 campaign. While battling shoulder and ankle injuries, his play took a turn for the worse until Penix was inserted into the lineup. The 25-year-old enters the coming season atop the Falcons’ depth chart, but an offseason filled with speculation about a Cousins trade or release has ultimately not resulted in a parting of ways.

Cousins is in a better spot health-wise than he was at the time of his benching, but without any starting gigs available at this point he is in line to remain in Atlanta. An injury during training camp could change the situation, but for now the Falcons are set to retain him as a backup (as they professed a willingness for all spring) carrying a $40MM cap hit. That situation is of course partly by choice on Cousins’ part after he elected not to waive his no-trade clause prior to the draft to avoid a repeat of last year’s situation.

Cousins is owed a $27.5MM base salary this season, and a $10MM roster bonus for next year has already vested. That financial barrier prevented a trade from taking place over the past few months and it will remain challenging for interested teams to swing a deal if Atlanta declines to retain any money. As a result, Cousins is destined to remain with the Falcons for at least one more year before a parting of ways becomes feasible and the opportunity will present itself to move past this chapter of his career.

The NFL’s Longest-Tenured GMs

July 5th, 2025 at 10:57pm CST by Sam Robinson

The NFL’s 2025 HC carousel brought five new sideline leaders; this year’s GM market eventually featured four new hires. Two teams made quick-trigger decisions involving front office bosses this offseason.

Not long after the Raiders fired Antonio Pierce, they booted Tom Telesco — brought in to give the inexperienced HC a seasoned GM — after just one season. New minority owner Tom Brady, who certainly appears to have downplayed his Raiders role in a recent interview, wanted a fresh start. That meant firing Telesco despite the GM’s Brock Bowers draft choice last year. John Spytek, an ex-Brady Michigan teammate who was with the Buccaneers when the team signed the QB icon, replaced him. Formerly the Chargers’ front office boss, Telesco had entered every season in a GM chair since 2013.

Ran Carthon received two years in charge in Tennessee, but owner Amy Adams Strunk — a year after the surprise Mike Vrabel firing — moved on and arranged an interesting power structure this offseason. The Titans installed Chad Brinker, who had been one of Carthon’s two assistant GMs, as president of football operations. The ex-Carthon lieutenant holds final say over new hire Mike Borgonzi, who did run the Titans’ draft this year. Borgonzi, who interviewed for the Jets’ GM job as well, comes over after a lengthy Chiefs tenure.

The in-season Joe Douglas firing brought a Jets GM change for the first time in six years. As Woody Johnson overreach became a regular talking point in New York, the Jets started over with Darren Mougey. Johnson changed up his workflow upon hiring Mougey, however. Rather than the GM directly reporting to the owner (as Douglas had), both Mougey and Aaron Glenn will do so. Mougey, though, does control the roster.

Telesco’s January firing left Trent Baalke as the NFL’s lone second-chance GM. The Jaguars had kept Baalke despite firing Doug Pederson, but as the team’s coaching search brought significant concerns from candidates about the presence of the resilient GM, Shad Khan eventually made a change. This move came after top HC candidate Liam Coen initially turned down a second interview, doing so after Ben Johnson concerns about the situation circulated. Gladstone is now in place as the NFL’s youngest GM, at 34, coming over from the Rams.

This offseason also brought three GM extensions — for Jason Licht, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Omar Khan. Licht is heading into his 12th season at the helm. Adofo-Mensah joined Vikings HC Kevin O’Connell in being extended this offseason. Also a 2022 GM hire/promotion, Khan signed a Steelers extension this week.

Although Jerry Jones and Mike Brown have been in place longer, the Cowboys and Bengals’ owners hold de facto GM titles. Mickey Loomis is not only the longest-tenured pure GM in the NFL; the Saints boss trails only Hall of Famer Tex Schramm as the longest-tenured pure GM in NFL history. Hired four years before Sean Payton in New Orleans, Loomis heads into his 24th season at the controls. Loomis hired his third HC as a GM (Kellen Moore) in February.

Here is how long every GM has been in place across the NFL:

  1. Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys): April 18, 1989[1]
  2. Mike Brown (Cincinnati Bengals): August 5, 1991[2]
  3. Mickey Loomis (New Orleans Saints): May 14, 2002
  4. John Schneider (Seattle Seahawks): January 19, 2010; signed extension in 2021
  5. Howie Roseman (Philadelphia Eagles): January 29, 2010[3]; signed extension in 2022
  6. Les Snead (Los Angeles Rams): February 10, 2012; signed extension in 2022
  7. Jason Licht (Tampa Bay Buccaneers): January 21, 2014; signed extension in 2025
  8. Chris Grier (Miami Dolphins): January 4, 2016[4]
  9. John Lynch (San Francisco 49ers): January 29, 2017; signed extension in 2023
  10. Chris Ballard (Indianapolis Colts): January 30, 2017; signed extension in 2021
  11. Brandon Beane (Buffalo Bills): May 9, 2017; signed extension in 2023
  12. Brett Veach (Kansas City Chiefs): July 11, 2017; signed extension in 2024
  13. Brian Gutekunst (Green Bay Packers): January 7, 2018; agreed to extension in 2022
  14. Eric DeCosta (Baltimore Ravens): January 7, 2019
  15. Andrew Berry (Cleveland Browns): January 27, 2020; signed extension in 2024
  16. Nick Caserio (Houston Texans): January 5, 2021
  17. George Paton (Denver Broncos): January 13, 2021
  18. Brad Holmes (Detroit Lions): January 14, 2021; agreed to extension in 2024
  19. Terry Fontenot (Atlanta Falcons): January 19, 2021
  20. Joe Schoen (New York Giants): January 21, 2022
  21. Ryan Poles (Chicago Bears): January 25, 2022
  22. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah (Minnesota Vikings): January 26, 2022; signed extension in 2025
  23. Omar Khan (Pittsburgh Steelers): May 24, 2022; signed extension in 2025
  24. Monti Ossenfort (Arizona Cardinals): January 16, 2023
  25. Adam Peters (Washington Commanders): January 12, 2024
  26. Dan Morgan (Carolina Panthers): January 22, 2024
  27. Joe Hortiz (Los Angeles Chargers): January 29, 2024
  28. Eliot Wolf (New England Patriots): May 11, 2024
  29. Mike Borgonzi (Tennessee Titans): January 17, 2025
  30. John Spytek (Las Vegas Raiders): January 22, 2025
  31. Darren Mougey (New York Jets): January 24, 2025
  32. James Gladstone (Jacksonville Jaguars): February 21, 2025

Footnotes:

  1. Jones has been the Cowboys’ de facto general manager since former GM Tex Schramm resigned in April 1989.
  2. Brown has been the Bengals’ de facto GM since taking over as the team’s owner in August 1991.
  3. The Eagles bumped Roseman from the top decision-making post in 2015, giving Chip Kelly personnel power. Roseman was reinstated upon Kelly’s December 2015 firing.
  4. Although Grier was hired in 2016, he became the Dolphins’ top football exec on Dec. 31, 2018
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