Giants Could Have Starting Battle At CB
Last year, we saw Cor’Dale Flott overcome Adoree’ Jackson for a starting role as an outside cornerback, playing across from fellow starter Deonte Banks for much of the season. Jackson departed and in walks Paulson Adebo on a three-year, $54MM contract. All of the sudden, Flott is pushed to a CB3 role again. According to Dan Duggan of The Athletic, though, Flott may, once again, be making moves for the first-team defense. 
Despite missing more than half of the 2024 season, Adebo is making starter money. While this is largely based on a phenomenal 2023 campaign, in which Adebo had four interceptions, 18 passes defensed, 76 tackles, two forced fumbles, and a ranking as the 15th-best cornerback in the NFL, per Pro Football Focus (subscription required), Adebo was arguably setting up for an even more impressive 2024 season. In only seven games before breaking his femur, Adebo had already logged three interceptions, 10 passes defensed, and 52 tackles.
The Giants are certainly counting on Adebo to make a full recovery and still be the same player, and so far in camp he’s been participating and working with the first team. The other starting spot is the one held in question, though. Banks was a full-time starter in 2024 for 14 games. He failed to log an interception, but his 12 passes defensed led the team.
Flott started for most of the season before an injury kept him out for two weeks late in the season. When he returned to the field, he worked behind Jackson for a bit before regaining starting honors in the regular season finale. In all, Flott had 10 starts in 14 games with an interception and seven passes defensed in 2024.
While it seems by the metrics of history and experience that Banks has the upper hand, Flott has the analytics on his side. According to PFF, Flott ranked as the 68th-best cornerback of 116 players graded at the position. Banks was all the way down at 108th. While analytics aren’t always a good measure of which player stands a better chance at starting, in this case they might end up being a decent indicator.
Duggan reports that at Organized Team Activities, Banks and Flott continued rotating at the cornerback spot opposite Adebo. Duggan adds that, “notably, Flott was with the starters while Banks was with the second-stringers when the defense broke into separate groups for an install period.”
We know that Flott is a strong camper. We saw it last year when he secured the starting job across from Banks. This year, it appears it’s Banks’ playing time that’s in danger here. There is still plenty of time for things to get shaken up, but at the moment, it’s looking like Flott is in play to relegate a prior year’s starter to CB3 for the second year in a row.
Saints Officially Shifting To Base 3-4 Defense
While all NFL defenses play around with formations depending on the situation, every team has a base defense that functions as their identity and the starting point from which they can build out. The base defense is key in determining what types of defenders you bring in, as well. For instance, you might not want to bring in a standup outside linebacker if you run a base 4-3, in which he’ll be required to put his hand in the dirt, which could affect his pass rush arsenal. 
Well, according to Jeff Duncan of The Times-Picayune, the Saints are officially switching to a base 3-4 defense under new defensive coordinator Brandon Staley. Staley learned the scheme from Vic Fangio during their time together in Chicago and Denver, while Fangio was a student of it all the way back during his first NFL gig as the Saints linebackers coach in the 1980s, when the imposing “Dome Patrol” quartet gained notoriety in New Orleans. But the 3-4 went away from the Superdome when then-head coach Jim Mora resigned in the late 1990s, and the defense has been mostly run out of a base 4-3 since then.
For the most part, the responsibilities of the secondary will remain unchanged in the new formation. The base defense will still include two safeties and two cornerbacks with extra defensive backs coming in for special formations. The responsibilities of the middle linebackers will also remain mostly the same, barring the fact that their new base defense allows for two strictly off-ball linebackers.
The differences come with the outside linebackers and the defensive line. When running a base 4-3, defensive ends are the main pass rushers. Outside linebackers can blitz on occasion, but for the most part, they act more as off-ball linebackers than edge rushers. The defensive tackles, in 4-3, are stout and strong, but they also usually to have a bit of a pass rush arsenal. In base 3-4, the outside linebackers become the main pass rushers, though they should also have the versatility to function off ball. The defensive ends now are more akin to defensive tackles in size and pass rush ability. The nose tackles become more important in the 3-4 as an over-the-center, usually heavier, run stuffer.
In New Orleans, determinations are being made as to which defenders will have what roles. Formerly defensive ends, Carl Granderson, Chase Young, Cameron Jordan, and Isaiah Foskey are now outside linebackers. They’ll have to adjust to working out of standup position, as opposed to the three-point stance they have been used to. In order to adjust to this new starting position, Young and Granderson have reportedly shed some weight.
The new defensive ends group is composed of Bryan Bresee, Jonah Williams, and Vernon Broughton, while the nose tackles will be former defensive tackles Davon Godchaux, Nathan Shepherd, and Khalen Saunders. Their responsibilities won’t really change too much, aside from their new three-man lineup being surrounded by pass rushers from the linebacking corps.
Obviously, Staley and company will constantly be changing up looks and rotations throughout the course of games and the season based on different situations and different offenses they will face. But this change in the team’s base defense alters the role of several key, veteran players and will likely affect the prospective players New Orleans looks for in the future.
Jalen Ramsey Trade Not Imminent; Tyreek Hill Wants Him To Stay
After Jaire Alexander found a new home in Baltimore, the trade of Dolphins cornerback Jalen Ramsey is reportedly “the next domino” expected to fall around NFL circles, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler (via Adam Wells of Bleacher Report). While that sounds like we’re on the precipice of a decision, the rest of Fowler’s quote seems to imply that we may be waiting for that domino to fall for quite some time. 
Despite Fowler’s domino analogy and the Dolphins being “optimistic” about working a deal out that will make all parties happy, Fowler tells us, “Nothing hard and fast developing or imminent right now, but they’ve talked to multiple teams in recent weeks and months.”
He goes on to say, “The big hangup still is that big-time money he’s got on his contract, $20-plus million guaranteed for 2025. Teams have a hard time reconciling how much they’re going to have to pay at that contract.” He cites the Rams as a team that is “still sort of in the mix” for Ramsey, considering their need at the position and their familiarity with the star defender who helped them win a Super Bowl.
While that seems like a solid possibility, Miami’s star wide receiver Tyreek Hill has other plans in mind. Yesterday, Hill posted a video on X with a caption indicating he’s going to “get (Ramsey) back.” The video came from an event in New York City called Fanatics Fest, at which Hill was being interviewed.
He told the interviewer that he was going to hang out with Ramsey in this upcoming week, saying, “I’m getting Ramsey back in a Dolphins jersey, I don’t care what they say.” He continued, “He’s a dawg. He’s one of the best corners in the league, man. Great leader. Great teammate, too, though. That’s what he doesn’t get a lot of credit for, man.”
After Hill, himself, was largely rumored to be on his way out of South Beach for some time before, ultimately, reaffirming his commitment to the Dolphins –an affirmation head coach Mike McDaniel wholeheartedly reciprocated — Hill, perhaps, stands as good a chance as anyone in convincing Ramsey to stay. Seeing Miami make a significant effort to improve its relationship with one star player may be enough to help another remain in place.
For now, though, Ramsey has been absent for all of Miami’s Organized Team Activities and mandatory minicamp, and a month and change remain before training camp begins. He recently continued to express his desire to return to the west coast in a trade, but maybe hanging out with Hill this week will be enough to change his mind. Hill will have plenty of time to work his magic, though, as nothing seems imminent, and the first sign of any sort of soft deadline remains over a month away.
Vikings Did Not Offer QB Sam Darnold Multi-Year Deal
The 2025 NFL offseason was certainly an interesting one for new Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. After a career year in 2024 on a one-year “prove-it” contract with the Vikings, Darnold made it clear to his suitors that he was looking for multiple years on a contract moving forward. 
We saw interest early on from the Steelers and Giants, while presumed interest from the Titans and Raiders was apparently never there. And while there was talk that Minnesota had interest in re-signing him, Michael Silver of The Athletic tells us that the team never offered him the multi-year deal that he desired.
Quarterbacking a top-10 scoring offense that finished sixth in the NFL in passing yards, Darnold led the Vikings to a 14-3 record. Despite only losing three games, Minnesota finished as the NFC’s 5-seed in the playoffs after losing the regular season finale to the division-winning, 15-2 Lions. That game saw Darnold complete a season-worst 18 of 41 pass attempts and pass for a season-low 166 yards. His first and only playoff appearance ended in a similar fashion as he was sacked a season-high nine times and failed to put double-digit points on the scoreboard.
Just like that, a career-defining, phenomenal season came to a crashing halt, and seemingly, so, too, did the Vikings’ favor for Darnold. After the then-27-year-old Darnold, who was handed the starting quarterback job over the 10th overall pick in 2024, J.J. McCarthy, due to injury, led them within a game of the top overall seed in the NFC, Minnesota seemed to have seen enough of him. Because their plans moving forward involved McCarthy taking over the offense as soon as possible, they were only willing to offer Darnold a one-year deal to potentially cover any time between now and whenever McCarthy is ready to take the reins.
Ultimately, Darnold landed in Seattle as the Seahawks new starter, and even though he’s now in a similar situation, with a rookie Jalen Milroe waiting behind him on the depth chart, head coach Mike Macdonald and company have been sure to communicate with the veteran and assure him that the starting job is his. They also affirmed their commitment to him with the three-year, $100.50MM contract they brought him in with.
With that contract, the Seahawks gave Darnold a chance to win the starting job and keep it for more than a year. Darnold will still have to fend off the developing quarterbacks behind him in Seattle, but at least now he’ll be under contract for those future battles and won’t have to worry about leaving early in free agency without still receiving a good amount of guarantees.
Browns Rookie LB Carson Schwesinger Likely To Start
For much of the 2024 NFL season, it seemed like off-ball linebacker was not going to be an offseason need for the Browns. Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, Devin Bush, and Jordan Hicks finished the year graded as the seventh-, ninth-, and 11th-best linebackers, respectively, in the NFL, per Pro Football Focus (subscription required). Yet, somehow, there’s a decent chance that a second-round rookie will be starting at the position in 2025, per ESPN’s Tony Grossi. 
First off, we need to address the occurrences that led to the Browns needing to select UCLA’s Carson Schwesinger with the first pick of Day 2 of the draft. Owusu-Koramoah’s best campaign of his young career came to an early end when a neck injury landed him on injured reserve. While he avoided a career-altering injury, he’s expected to miss a portion of this upcoming season and may take a while to get back to full speed and strength.
Bush, after having an uncharacteristically impressive season, was set to return on another one-year deal. Unfortunately, his NFL future remains in question as he spends some time in court dealing with charges of simple assault and harassment. The six-year veteran was arrested days after the draft, but with the team using such a high pick on Schwesinger, there’s certainly a possibility that they were aware of the soon-to-come legal situation.
Even with Bush back in the fold, though, Grossi posits that Hicks and Schwesinger will be the two linebackers on the field most often in 4-2-5 formations. Whenever third linebackers are on the field, Grossi believes it will be a battle between Bush, Mohamoud Diabate, Jerome Baker, and Winston Reid for those snaps.
Coming out of Oaks Christian (CA) without a recruiting ranking, Schwesinger passed up a partial scholarship with Bucknell in order to walk on at UCLA. After redshirting his freshman year, he earned a scholarship and appeared in all 13 games his redshirt freshman year. Most of that season and the subsequent one were spent on special teams, though he did record 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack in limited time on defense. As a redshirt junior, Schwesinger earned a starting role and filled the stat sheet with 136 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, four sacks, two interceptions, three passes defensed, and a forced fumble.
What he lacks in natural strength and technique, he makes up for in vision and tenacity. Schwesinger is quick to recognize and diagnose plays as they develop, watching the quarterback’s eyes and finding his lane of attack throughout the play. His effort takes him from sideline to sideline, and he doesn’t miss many tackles.
The same mentality that took him from walk-on to special teamer to starter to second-round pick is expected to take him to NFL starter, as well, at least to open the season. Things could change as camps progress and when Owusu-Koramoah eventually gets healthy, but for now, Schwesinger is likely to be working with the first-team defense after failing to garner a single scholarship offer just four years ago.
Titans Make Front Office Changes
Earlier this month, the Titans announced several changes to their front office staff. The team’s senior writer/editor Jim Wyatt detailed a number of promotions and new hires that pertain to the areas of staff that we cover.
To start, we already reported on Tennessee’s hiring of former Pitt director of college scouting Alex Kline, but at that time, we were unaware of what role on staff he would end up playing. Wyatt tells us that Kline will serve the Titans as a scouting assistant in 2025. He’ll be joined in the position with fellow new hire Geo Leins. Leins also originally came out of college with recruiting roles at Campbell, UCLA, Wake Forest, and NC State. He debuted in the NFL in 2023 as a scouting assistant with the Dolphins but heads now to Nashville.
The only other new hire in the scouting department is Jack Turner. After operations internships with Wake Forest and the Chiefs, Turner found an operations job at Davidson College. He left for a recruiting internship, again with the Demon Deacons, before getting a recruiting analyst job at Michigan. He’ll work his first full-time job in the NFL as an NFS scout for the Titans.
The scouting department also saw five promotions with Tennessee elevating Jon Salge to director of player personnel, Kevin Turks to director of pro personnel, Mike Boni to assistant director of college scouting, Kalan Reed to college scout, and Keenan Agnew to pro scout.
Salge is entering his 20th season with the Titans. Starting with the team as a scouting assistant, he’s worked his way up through the ranks as a college scout before eventually being named director of college scouting, a role he’s held for the past eight seasons. Turks joined the team in 2015 as a pro scout following time in Chicago as a scout and director of pro personnel. He was promoted after three years to assistant director of pro personnel in Tennessee and was invited to participate in the league’s Front Office & General Manager Accelerator program in 2023.
Boni, like Salge, also has 19 years of NFL experience but only has eight with the Titans. After coaching attempts at the high school and Division III college levels, Boni turned to scouting in 2006 spending a year as pro personnel administrator and a year as college scouting administrator with the Bills. In 2008, Boni departed for Arizona, working as an NFS scout to start for two years before seven as an east area scout. He started with the Titans in 2018 as a college scout before moving up to national scout in 2019, a role he held for five years before being named senior national scout last year.
Reed is a former cornerback whom the Titans actually made Mr. Irrelevant in 2016. A career-ending neck injury brought his playing career to a close, but in 2023, he joined the team that drafted him as a personnel scout after an NFL Legends fellowship. Agnew joined the team last year as a scouting assistant following the conclusion of his playing career at Southern Illinois. He’s the son of Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew and the brother of Jets pro scout Ray Agnew III.
Lastly, the analytics department also saw two promotions as Rob Riederer was named director of game management & strategic initiatives and Erin Psajdl Davis was named football research & development coordinator.
After his collegiate playing career, Riederer started with the Titans as a scouting assistant, working his way up to pro scouting coordinator at one point. Last year saw a shift in focus as Riederer was named assistant director of football strategy. His newfound career in analytics has paid off with this promotion. Psajdl Davis joined the team last year as a data analyst. She started in the NFL in the same role with the Texans for two years before spending the 2023 season as a data scientist with the Chiefs. Unlike her first two position changes, this move up will keep Psajdl Davis with the same team.
Latest On Browns’ RB Depth Chart
After finishing 29th in the NFL last year in rushing yards, the Browns made a concerted effort this offseason to getting younger in their running backs room. In fact, Cleveland doubled down in the draft, using two of their seven picks on the position, becoming the first team in NFL history to draft two running backs and two quarterbacks in the first five rounds of any draft in the Common Draft Era. 
Last year’s group was abysmal. Third-year back Jerome Ford led the team with 565 yards and three touchdowns in 14 games, six of which were starts. The phenomenal receiving contributions he showed in 2023 (44 catches for 319 yards and five touchdowns) effectively disappeared as he shouldered the main responsibility of being the primary rusher.
An aging Nick Chubb, 29, struggled in his return from a brutal knee injury. In eight starts through the middle of the season, Chubb failed to reach 60 rushing yards in any one game and scored in just two. His 3.3 yards per carry were the worst of his career; in contrast, before last year, he had never had a season with fewer than 5.0 yards per rush in his career. The third leading rusher was D’Onta Foreman. Also 29, Foreman’s 232 yards, zero touchdowns, and 3.3 yards per carry were among the worst numbers of his career.
Ditching the two 29-year-olds, the Browns only return Ford and Pierre Strong from last year’s diverse crop. Strong, 26, is the old man of the group, but his best season (2023) only saw 63 carries for 291 yards and a touchdown. Now Ford and Strong will be joined with a much younger duo as Cleveland welcomes second-round Ohio State rookie Quinshon Judkins, 21, and fourth-round Tennessee rookie Dylan Sampson, 20. Both Judkins and Sampson were higher draft picks in their respective draft than Ford (a fifth-round pick) and Strong (also a fourth-round pick, but 127th overall while Sampson was No. 126).
Judkins doesn’t add too much versatility in size to the room. Ford and Pierre both hover around 5-foot-10 or -11 and around 210-215 pounds, while Judkins adds a bit more size at just over 5-foot-11 and 221 pounds. Sampson brings a bit more diversity as a smaller 5-foot-8, 200-pound back.
In terms of production, Judkins brings consistency, never recording fewer than 1,000 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns in his three years at Ole Miss and Ohio State, despite only spending one season as a full-time starter. His best season came in his freshman year, though, when he recorded 1,567 yards and 16 touchdowns in just six starts (13 games). Sampson brings a flashy scoring ability after breaking out in his third year with the Volunteers. His 1,491 rushing yards in his only season as a full-time starter doesn’t quite match Judkins’ freshman campaign, but his 22 touchdowns beat any of Judkins three years.
In running style Judkins and Sampson seem like a perfect fit. Judkins runs with more of a decisive, one-cut style, attempting to get to his top speed by the time he hits the second-level defender. He’s not afraid of lowering the shoulder for contact with his strength and balance making him difficult to bring down. Sampson plays with a bit more quickness and agility, finding his desired angle and cutting with speed. He certainly fights for every yard, but rather than lowering the boom, he’s more effective when he’s using small cuts and shakes to avoid getting hit head on to eke out a couple more yards.
In a recent Q&A for TheLandOnDemand.com, ESPN’s Tony Grossi claimed that Judkins will be the planned starter moving forward with Sampson as the top backup. He points to Ford’s recent pay cut this offseason as evidence of a reduced role for the 25-year-old. Plus, his receiving abilities could become more useful in an RB3 role. While there is still plenty of time before the regular season for the depth chart to get shaken up, at the moment, it looks like youth will lead the way in the Browns’ rushing attack in 2025.
Browns Eyeing QBs In 2026 NFL Draft?
The quarterbacks room in Cleveland is currently a bit overcrowded as four new faces vie for the starting job vacated by an injured Deshaun Watson. Veterans Kenny Pickett and Joe Flacco seem to be in the lead for the starting gig, but each are on only a one-year deal, and there’s a chance only the winner may get to stay on the roster. Rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders both hold promise, but they’re likely competing for backup roles at the moment. 
Perhaps, after the 2025 NFL season, Watson will be back to full health, and the team will hold on to him so he can play out the final year of his historically terrible contract. Or maybe the team will re-sign the veteran who wins the starting job to a second deal. There’s also a chance that one of Gabriel or Sanders develops into a starter and becomes the quarterback of the future. ESPN’s Tony Grossi has a different idea in mind, though.
In a recent Q&A for TheLandOnDemand.com, Grossi posited the possibility that the Browns could dip back in the 2026 NFL Draft for a new quarterback. On its surface, the claim seems ridiculous after watching Cleveland selected two rookie quarterbacks in this year’s draft, but Grossi makes some compelling arguments.
First, he points to the draft compensation received from Jacksonville in return for the rights to draft Travis Hunter with the No. 2 overall draft pick. In that trade, the Browns got some valuable 2025 pick swaps, but the big kicker was Jacksonville’s 2026 first-round pick, giving Cleveland two Day 1 picks next year. Seeing as both teams combined for seven wins last season, there’s a decent chance both picks could be fairly high, though each team will obviously be hoping for improvement.
The second point he brings up is the fact that the quarterbacks in the 2025 draft were widely seen as an overall lackluster group with only No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward being viewed as a player who would’ve been among 2024’s first-round passers in talent. In contrast, the class of 2026 is widely expected to be a much more talented group of passers for quarterback-needy teams.
We’ve covered this a bit already with our early look into the class’s quarterbacks shortly following the draft. A lot of eyes are on Texas’ Arch Manning, but even if he stays in school for another year, LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier, Penn State’s Drew Allar, Clemson’s Cade Klubnik, South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers, UCLA’s Nico Iamaleava, Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza, Miami’s Carson Beck, and several others all give the draft class a chance to provide a much stronger group of passing prospects than we saw this past year.
So, if the 2026 class produces a litany of talented passing options that the team rates higher than it did Gabriel and Sanders, and the Browns hold two first-round picks, it certainly doesn’t seem impossible to think that Cleveland might use one of those two picks to take a flyer on a first-round quarterback. This approach might include them moving forward with three young quarterbacks and no veteran options, or one of the rookies from this year might be the odd man out if the Browns keep a veteran and one of the 2025 rookies to compete with their theoretical first-round passer.
Of course, this is all speculation. There’s every chance in the world that the Browns could unlock something in Pickett or see the version of Flacco that led them to the playoffs two years ago and be perfectly happy with them for a year or two while Gabriel and Sanders develop into reliable starting options. There’s every chance Gabriel or Sanders decide not to wait that long and emerge as the quarterback of the future in Cleveland by September. If none of these things happen, though, and the 2026 draft class is as impressive as anticipated, it’s hard to imagine that the Browns would be able to pass on using one of their two first-round picks to improve the quarterback position.
AFC Staff Updates: Chargers, Texans, Jaguars, Colts, Ravens, Patriots
The Chargers announced two promotions and two new hires earlier this month in their front office. In the scouting department, Mike Jasinski was promoted to national scout, Jaylen Bannerman-Oden was promoted to area scout, and Kevin Weidl was hired as a national scout. In analytics, Maya Harvey was hired as a football systems developer.
Jasinski has been with the Chargers since 2018, when he joined the team as a combine area scout after recruiting roles at Purdue and Northwestern. In two years, Los Angeles promoted him to an area scouting role, in which he covered the northeast area for two years and the plains area for the past three. The son of Titans pass game coordinator & cornerbacks coach Tony Oden, Bannerman-Oden entered the NFL as a video intern and external scouting game charter for the Browns in 2020. He joined the Chargers the next year as a pro scouting/operations intern and worked two years after that as a scouting assistant before getting promoted to college & pro scout last year.
Weidl reunites with second-year general manager Joe Hortiz, coming from Hortiz’s old team in Baltimore. Weidl ended an eight-year stretch with the Ravens, in which time he served as a southeast/southwest area scout for four years and a southeast/midwest area scout for the other four. Before arriving in Baltimore, Weidl spent 10 years with ESPN Scouts Inc.
Harvey earns her new job after working as a fellow for the Chargers during the final year of her computer science degree program (with a concentration on human computer interaction) at Stanford last year. In addition to her computer science background, Harvey was an athlete for the Cardinal, lettering all four years in beach volleyball.
Here are a few other staff updates from around the AFC:
- The Texans were the other team to make multiple additions in the month of June. In the front office, Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 tells us that Mack Marrone has joined the staff as a scouting and administration assistant. The son of Patriots offensive line coach Doug Marrone, Marrone debuts in the NFL after finishing a collegiate playing career as a linebacker at Colgate. The second addition in Houston was Will Stokes who joins the analytics department as a football data analyst, according to Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com. Stokes worked last summer as a football data analyst with the Commanders.
- Jon Dykema can’t seem to keep away from the NFL. Four months after leaving the Lions to serve as Michigan State’s executive senior associate athletic director and assistant general counsel, Matt Zenitz of 247Sports reports that Dykema is expected to be hired by the Jaguars. His role in Jacksonville is not year known, but his 14 years in Detroit were spent as the team’s director of football compliance.
- Per Stratton, the Colts have promoted Greg Liverpool III to midlands area scout. He began in football working recruiting internships throughout his education at Coastal Carolina and served internships for the Colts doing operations during training camps in 2021 and 2022 and for the NFL Scouting Combine in 2022. In 2023, he joined Indianapolis in a full-time role, serving as a scouting assistant until this promotion.
- The Ravens have hired Ramon Ruiz away from Rutgers, according to Zenitz. Most recently serving as the Scarlet Knights director of recruiting, Ruiz has reportedly been a key contributor to head coach Greg Schiano‘s turnaround of the Rutgers football program, helping the team to winning records in back-to-back seasons for the first time in 12 years. Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic adds that Ruiz’s title with the team will be player personnel assistant.
- Lastly, ESPN’s Seth Walder tells us that the Patriots have hired Max Mulitz as personnel analytics coordinator. Mulitz came to the NFL as a full-time intern in the Eagles’ data research department in 2015. Three years later, the Dolphins hired him as a football analyst and promoted him to manager of coaching analytics after just a year. He held the position for four seasons before parting ways with Miami in March. Mulitz joins Ekene Olekanma as the second analytics hire for New England this month.
Minor NFL Transactions: 6/20/25
Today’s minor moves as we head into the weekend:
Houston Texans
- Waived: LS Tucker Addington
Kansas City Chiefs
- Released: G Tremayne Anchrum
- Waived: TE Kevin Foelsch
New Orleans Saints
- Signed: CB Jayden Price
- Waived: CB Travion Fluellen, RB Xazavian Valladay
Addington’s placement on the waiver wire comes as a corresponding move to cornerback Damon Arnette‘s signing. Addington was presumed to be Houston’s starting long snapper after they allowed Jon Weeks to depart in free agency. That presumed role will now be assigned to Austin Brinkman. With Weeks and Addington gone, the undrafted rookie out of West Virginia is the only long snapper left on the roster.
Kansas City and New Orleans each announced corresponding moves to recently announced signings, as well.