Today’s minor moves:
Carolina Panthers
Green Bay Packers
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
Las Vegas Raiders
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cam Smith will not have a chance to continue a potential bounce-back effort with the Dolphins. The team is moving on from the former second-round pick.
Stashed on the reserve/non-football illness list to open the season, Smith received word Tuesday he is being waived. Two years remain on the cornerback’s contract, but he has not shown much since being drafted highly. The team announced the move.
Overhauling their operation at corner this offseason, the Dolphins had expressed some hope Smith could step up. Chosen with the team’s top draft choice in 2023, the former No. 51 overall pick has only played 153 career snaps. Miami carrying the depleted CB situation it does and still waiving Smith certainly illustrates a lack of faith among team decision-makers in the once-highly regarded South Carolina prospect.
Mostly a special-teamer as a rookie, Smith began last season on IR but did play a regular role during the six games in which he was active. Smith logged 133 defensive snaps, though he allowed a 75% completion rate as the closest defender and did not start any games. Drafted to play in Vic Fangio‘s defense, Smith failed to make an impression under Anthony Weaver and will look for a chance elsewhere.
This is a big miss for the Dolphins, who traded their 2022 and ’23 first-rounders to the Chiefs in the Tyreek Hill trade. Miami has seen the third-rounder from that draft (De’Von Achane) hit, but the Hill trade coupled with the Smith miss depleted the team’s capital.
Miami not seeing much from Smith this offseason also came as it cut Kendall Fuller and traded Jalen Ramsey. The team also lost Kader Kohou and Artie Burns to summer ACL tears. Monday night, the Dolphins also played without starter Storm Duck and backup Ethan Bonner. The team added Jack Jones, Rasul Douglas and JuJu Brents to its CB room in a flurry of late-summer moves.
Baltimore is adding a former first-round pick to its offensive line mix. The Ravens announced that they have signed Kenyon Green to their practice squad. The team worked out Green last week, according to Aaron Wilson of KPRC2.
Green, a former Texas A&M standout, entered the NFL as the 15th overall pick of the Texans in 2022. However, the Texas native was unable to live up to his draft status in his home state.
While Green started 14 games as a rookie, Pro Football Focus gave him a last-place grade among guards who played in 10-plus contests. The 6-foot-4, 323-pounder was unable to improve on that in 2023, instead missing the entire season with a shoulder injury. Green returned to play in 12 games (nine starts) a year ago, but the Texans moved on last offseason.
In a trade that hasn’t worked out for either side, the Texans sent Green and a fifth-rounder in last spring’s draft to the Eagles for safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson and a sixth-rounder in 2026. Green didn’t play a regular-season game for the Eagles, though he did spend time on their practice squad before they waived him last week. Gardner-Johnson, meanwhile, lasted three games with Houston before the team released him last week.
The 24-year-old Green is now heading to his third pro organization, though he’ll have to work his way up to the active roster. The Ravens have Andrew Vorhees and Daniel Faalele serving as starting guards, while Ben Cleveland is on the roster in a backup role.
After losing wide receiver Tyreek Hill to a season-ending knee injury during Monday’s win over the Jets, the Dolphins are bringing back an old friend to help the void. Miami will sign receiver Cedrick Wilson Jr. off the Saints’ practice squad, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports.
This will be the second Dolphins stint for Wilson, who played with the team under head coach Mike McDaniel from 2022-23. Wilson combined for 34 catches, 432 yards, and three touchdowns over 30 games during his previous run in Miami after spending the first three seasons of his career in Dallas.
Wilson joined the Saints on a two-year, $5.75MM deal with $2.85MM in guarantees in 2024; he hauled in 20 passes for 211 yards and a score in 15 games last season. He didn’t make the Saints’ season-opening roster this year, though, instead spending time on their practice squad to open the season.
The 29-year-old will now receive an opportunity to return to game action with a Miami. With Hill down, Jaylen Waddle will be the team’s unquestioned No. 1 receiver. Proven options are hard to find after that, however, with Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, D’Wayne Eskridge, Malik Washington, and Tahj Washington perhaps taking on expanded roles.
Even with Wilson not delivering on the three-year, $22.05MM Dolphins deal he signed in 2022, the career-long auxiliary receiver has a greater track record than each of those four at the NFL level. Wilson, whose 602-yard Cowboys showing in 2021 caught the Dolphins’ attention, did not eclipse 300 receiving yards in either of his previous two Miami slates.
Realistically, there’s little chance of the Dolphins adequately replacing Hill from within this year. The eight-time Pro Bowler may never suit up again for the Dolphins, who will be able to get out of his non-guaranteed $29.9MM base salary in the offseason. He was already facing an uncertain future before suffering his gruesome injury, which McDaniel confirmed on Tuesday will end his season (X links via Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN and Cameron Wolfe of NFL Network).
It seems Hill avoided nerve damage, but McDaniel revealed “several ligaments including the ACL are part of the dislocation.” A report Tuesday morning indicated Hill’s 2026 season is in doubt, with the future Hall of Famer suffering an ACL tear in addition to the knee dislocation and other ligament tears. This thrusts the all-time speed merchant toward a career crossroads, with an age-32 season coming in 2026. The accomplished wideout had only missed extensive time in one season — the Chiefs’ 2019 campaign — but that will change beginning in Week 5.
Kolton Miller signed a second Raiders extension this offseason, locking in the Jon Gruden-era draftee for the long term under yet another new Las Vegas power structure. But the new regime will have a look at what a Miller-less offensive line looks like for a while.
The Raiders are placing Miller on IR, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reports. An MRI on Miller’s ankle revealed a high ankle sprain and a hairline fracture, per RapSheet. This move will park the Raiders tackle for at least four games, leading to big changes up front.
This will ensure Miller matches his career high in missed games. He missed four in 2023; otherwise, Miller has been a reliable piece on a Raiders O-line that continues to see turnover. The eighth-year blocker is signed to a three-year, $66MM extension — after angling for a new deal during the offseason.
Pete Carroll said Monday the Raiders would turn to Stone Forsythe, one of the new HC’s former Seahawks charges, if Miller missed time. The Raiders will go from a 111-start player to one whom the Giants waived upon moving their roster to 53 players last month. The Raiders quickly scooped up Forsythe for their 16-man practice squad and have used him as a backup in four games thus far.
Miller, 30, went down shortly before the Raiders’ game-winning field goal attempt against the Bears. He played 17 games last season, and the Raiders’ solutions when Miller went down in 2023 is no longer rostered. Both Justin Herron and Jermaine Eluemunor, each an ex-Patriot brought in during Josh McDaniels‘ short HC stint, started in place of Miller in 2023. Forsythe represents one option, with Carroll adding rookie Charles Grant could push for playing time. The third-round pick out of Division I-FCS, however, has been inactive all season.
The Raiders used two Day 2 picks on O-linemen last year — Jackson Powers-Johnson, DJ Glaze — and doubled down to start the Carroll-John Spytek–Tom Brady era by drafting Caleb Rogers and Grant at Nos. 98 and 99. Neither rookie blocker has been active this season. Grant comes from William & Mary, and the team gave him work at both tackle spots during his first NFL offseason. Glaze sits as the Raiders’ RT starter, while Rogers is another backup option.
This could certainly be a big loss for Vegas, as Miller is one of the NFL’s better tackles. Through four games, Pro Football Focus ranks the 6-foot-8 blocker fourth among all tackles. ESPN’s pass block win rate metric slots Miller ninth this season. PFF graded Miller as a top-15 tackle in each of the previous four seasons. A former Seahawks fourth-rounder, Forsythe has made 14 career starts. He logged 213 left tackle snaps in 2023, but all of his 2024 action came on the right side.
The Bills finished their Week 4 game without their usual kicker and punter. Cameron Johnston joined Tyler Bass as injured specialists in Buffalo, with NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport indicating the punter would miss time with a leg injury.
As a result, the Bills will add former 49ers staple Mitch Wishnowsky, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Wishnowsky is joining Buffalo’s 53-man roster. Rather than carry two punters on the active roster, Buffalo is placing Johnston on IR, per Schefter. The 33-year-old will now miss at least four games after suffering an injury on a roughing the punter penalty in a win over the Saints last Sunday.
Wishnowsky, also 33, is already the third punter the Bills have employed this season. Interestingly, he joins Johnston as the second Australian the Bills have used at the position this year.
The Bills began 2025 with Brad Robbins as their punter, but they cut him loose after he averaged 39.5 yards per boot (38.0 net) in a win over the Ravens in Week 1. Johnston, a former Eagle, Texan, and Steeler, averaged 44.0 yards with a nearly identical 37.9 net in two games before landing on IR.
A 49er from 2019-24, Wishnowsky carries a career average of 45.6 yards per punt and 40.7 net. He played in just nine games last year before going on IR with a season-ending back injury in mid-November. Wishnowsky began this season on the Commanders’ practice squad, but they released him on Sept. 13. He’ll now get an opportunity to give the undefeated Bills something they haven’t found in 2025 — a solution at punter.
The Browns will be without their No. 2 wide receiver for a while. Cedric Tillman Jr. sustained a hamstring injury in the team’s loss to the Lions, and the team announced it will lead to an IR stay.
Kevin Stefanski had confirmed (via the Akron Beacon Journal’s Chris Easterling) Tillman would be out “in the weeks department”; the IR trip will sideline the third-year receiver for at least four games. The Browns signed wideouts Malachi Corley and Gage Larvadain to their 53-man roster from the practice squad. Cleveland also waived cornerback Cameron Mitchell, a 2023 fifth-round pick who started four games from 2023-24.
Although the Browns signed Diontae Johnson, he never appeared to threaten Tillman’s spot. Cleveland released the nomadic veteran on roster-cutdown day and turned to the player whose role had increased following last year’s Amari Cooper trade. The Cooper Bills swap opened the door for more Tillman work alongside Jerry Jeudy, and the former third-round pick did enough to keep that top sidekick gig entering this season. Tillman reached 75 receiving yards in his first three starts, teaming with Jameis Winston last year, but could not build on that momentum.
Tillman started six games last season but did not finish the campaign on Cleveland’s active roster, missing six games to close the season. Tillman, who did not enjoy a big role as a rookie, missed three games during that season. This represents another setback in the Tennessee product’s development. He has 11 catches for 106 yards this season.
Cleveland entered the season light on receiver experience, carrying Tillman as Jeudy’s top wingman. Only two other receivers — Jamari Thrash and rookie UDFA Isaiah Bond — are on the Browns’ 53-man roster. Bond, a draft prospect who fell off the board due to off-field trouble, figures to see a bigger role. The Texas alum caught three passes for 58 yards against the Lions. Bond was not indicted after an arrest on sexual assault charges, leading to his Browns signing soon after. Beginning his career at Alabama, Bond did not eclipse 700 receiving yards in a college season but garnered draft interest from several teams.
The Browns also placed wideout DeAndre Carter on IR, thinning their receiver position further. Journeying the league as a return specialist, Carter joined the Browns this offseason. A knee injury will lead Carter off Cleveland’s 53-man roster. This will force the Browns into multiple changes, with Carter serving as their primary kick and punt returner.
The Jets drafted Corley atop Round 3 last year, with the Western Kentucky alum famously drawing a Draft Day-like “no matter what” reference from then-decision-makers Joe Douglas and Robert Saleh. After slogging through a rough rookie year, Corley did not impress the Jets’ new decision-making team and was waived last month. The Browns added him to their practice squad soon after. Corley, who caught just three passes for 16 yards last season, has not played in a Browns game yet.
Robbie Chosen has lined up his next NFL opportunity. The veteran receiver is signing with the Commanders, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. 
This will be a practice squad agreement. Chosen – whose moniker has shifted from Robby Anderson to Robbie Anderson to Chosen Anderson over the course of his NFL tenure – has bounced around the league in recent years. The 32-year-old’s most recent regular season action came with the Dolphins last season.
Following a lengthy spell on the open market, Chosen took a workout with the 49ers in early August. That visit produced a deal along with playing time in the preseason, but San Francisco did not keep the former UDFA on the roster during cutdowns. Chosen remained unsigned through the first month of the campaign, but he has now landed a chance with Washington.
The Commanders were without receivers Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown last week, so it comes as little surprise depth is being targeted as those two continue to recover. General manager Adam Peters was not in the 49ers’ organization during Chosen’s time there this summer, but the Temple product is hardly the first player to have spent time with San Francisco before signing with the Commanders. It will be interesting to see if he receives any looks on the active roster in the near future.
Many of Chosen’s best seasons came with the Jets (including a career-high seven touchdowns in 2017). He enjoyed a 1,000-yard campaign in 2020, his first year under former college coach Matt Rhule with the Panthers. After a tumultuous exit from the Panthers, Chosen has not managed to secure a full-time role in the NFL. His latest opportunity to chip in offensively will come in the nation’s capital.
During final roster cuts, the Saints moved Taysom Hill and Foster Moreau to the reserve/PUP list. That ensured at least a four-game absence for both veteran tight ends. 
This week marks the first point at which Hill and Moreau can return to practice. That will indeed be the case, since the team has officially opened the practice window for both players. The Saints have 21 days to activate each of them to avoid a season-ending absence.
The fact Hill and Moreau have been designated for return at the first possible opportunity is of course an encouraging sign for their respective outlooks. Hill’s 2024 campaign was cut short by an ACL tear, while Moreau suffered a knee injury of his own during New Orleans’ season finale. In both cases, a lengthy recovery period included missed time during training camp. Given this news, though, their rehab processes have gone according to plan.
Hill’s contract was restructured shortly before the start of the season. The 35-year-old saw a portion of his base salary converted into per-game roster bonuses (taking into account the fact he would be sidelined for the first month of the campaign). Hill remains a pending free agent, so managing to avoid any injuries in 2025 while carving out a role of one kind or another within new head coach Kellen Moore‘s offense will be key in establishing his value for the spring.
Moreau, 28, is also entering the final year of his pact. With 413 yards and 32 receptions in 2024, the LSU product essentially matched his career bests in those categories last year; Moreau also set a new personal mark with five touchdowns. Duplicating that production could be challenging with Juwan Johnson in the fold, but being back to full strength at the tight end spot will nevertheless be welcomed by the winless Saints.
New Orleans will take on the Giants in Week 5. Depending on how the next few days unfold, the team’s offense could have one or two more options available for that game.
In search of help at the left tackle spot, the Browns are making a move aimed at addressing the position. Cam Robinson is heading to Cleveland. 
The Browns and Texans have worked out a Robinson trade involving a late-round pick swap, as first reported by ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. Sixth- and seventh-round selections in 2027 are being swapped, Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero of NFL Network add. The deal is now official, with Houston receiving the sixth-round pick in exchange for Robinson and the seventh-rounder.
The 29-year-old spent eight-plus years handling blindside duties with the Jaguars. Robinson’s time in Duval County came to an end midway through the 2024 campaign when he was traded to the Vikings. That move allowed him to fill in for an injured Christian Darrisaw through the remainder of the season. As a free agent, Robinson returned to the AFC South by inking a one-year pact with Houston carrying a base value of $12MM.
The majority of that compensation was already paid out as a signing bonus. As a result, the Browns will only take on the prorated remainder of Robinson’s $2MM base salary; $1.25MM in per-game roster bonuses are also present. This agreement will give Cleveland – a team which has struggled at both tackle spots early in the season en route to a 1-3 start – a veteran presence on the blindside. Robinson has 104 regular season appearances (all but two of those being starts) to his name.
Houston underwent a number of changes up front this offseason, one in which Laremy Tunsil was traded away. That appeared to open the door to Robinson handling first-team duties at the left tackle spot, but rookie Aireontae Ersery impressed during training camp. The second-round pick has handled the starting gig as a result, relegating Robinson to backup duties. The Texans looked into a trade during roster cutdowns, but the Alabama product remained in the fold through the first month of the campaign.
Despite Houston’s struggles up front so far, the team has elected to move forward with a trade this time around. Robinson will look to quickly work his way into Cleveland’s lineup. A strong run of play with the Browns will likely not be sufficient for a postseason berth to be possible, but it could help his free agent stock for next spring. With both tackle spots being a question mark for the Browns beyond the current season, Robinson could play his way into an extended stay in Cleveland depending on how the coming months unfold.