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Bears, Jets, Titans, Vikings On Rondale Moore Radar

March 19th, 2025 at 9:09am CST by Sam Robinson

Traded straight up for Desmond Ridder last March, Rondale Moore suffered a season-ending injury that kept him from playing a down as a Falcon. Now out of contract, the former Cardinals slot receiver is generating considerable interest despite his recent setback.

The Vikings brought in the young slot target for a visit last week, ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter tweets; that was the first stop on a Moore tour. The Bears then met with the former second-round pick, per NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport, while ESPN’s Field Yates indicates the Jets huddled up with Moore on Tuesday. A Titans-Moore summit is on tap today, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo tweets.

This is a rather interesting market, as Moore went down early during Falcons training camp last year. While that timing did provide an extended rehab period, Moore missing a full season could have diminished him on a market that still includes Stefon Diggs, Amari Cooper, Keenan Allen and Tyler Lockett. Though, the veteran wing of the receiver market does not stand to impact Moore. A slot weapon and gadget presence, the 24-year-old WR is looking to rebound after the Cardinals bailed on him. The Purdue alum did bring some intrigue while in Arizona, as teams are lining up to determine a fit.

At just 5-foot-7, Moore presents limitations but operated as a Cardinals supporting-caster for Kyler Murray (and others) during his rookie contract. Drafted to play in Kliff Kingsbury‘s spread attack, Moore caught 54 passes for 435 yards and a touchdown as a rookie. During a 2022 season in which Murray went down in early December, Moore posted a 41/414/1 line. Current Cardinals OC Drew Petzing used Moore as a runner extensively, and he posted 178 rushing yards (on 28 carries) to go with 40 catches for 352 through the air in 2023. The Cards still used Moore as a trade chip to acquire a passer they eventually cut before Week 1.

Allen has shown interest in returning to the Bears, and they have already added slot option Olamide Zaccheaus in free agency. With Jalen Nailor supplementing Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison, Minnesota has a crowded receiving situation as well. The Jets signed Tyler Johnson as a supplementary option, but their receiving corps has questions post-Davante Adams. Moore would not exactly answer them, but he would provide some Garrett Wilson support. The Titans have not re-signed Tyler Boyd, though they did add five-year vet Van Jefferson as a potential Calvin Ridley sidekick.

The Bears also worked out Mecole Hardman previously, NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero adds (h/t Pro Football Talk’s Charean Williams). Hardman has since signed with the Packers. Chicago GM Ryan Poles was in Kansas City when the Chiefs drafted Hardman in the 2019 second round.

Justin Reid Chose Saints Over Titans, Eagles, Chiefs

March 16th, 2025 at 6:21pm CST by Nikhil Mehta

The Saints won a multi-team battle for Justin Reid last week, with the Eagles and the Titans falling short in their bid to sign the veteran safety, per Bleacher Report’s James Palmer.

The Eagles “weren’t close” to the $10.5M APY that Reid received from the Saints, per Jeff McLane of The Philadelphia Inquirer, suggesting that he was willing to take less money to join the reigning Super Bowl champions.

Reid confirmed those teams’ interest in his introductory press conference, adding that the Chiefs explored a reunion with their longtime safety as well. He added that there is “no animosity” between him and the Chiefs, but signing with the Saints “made too much sense” for the Louisiana native.

He went to college across the country at Stanford, but falling to the Texans in the 2018 draft allowed Reid to stay somewhat close to home in Houston. His three years in Kansas City pulled him farther away from Louisiana, but he will now get to play for his childhood team.

“Every kid in Louisiana dreams about playing for the Saints,” said Reid. He will reunite with fellow Louisiana native Tyrann Mathieu in New Orleans. Reid played with Mathieu in Houston in 2018 and later replaced him in Kansas City in 2022.

His new contract in New Orleans is worth $31.5MM over three years, the same as his last deal with the Chiefs. He is receiving $2MM more in guaranteed money, though his APY has not increased with salary cap inflation.

Titans Release CB Chidobe Awuzie

March 15th, 2025 at 3:15pm CST by Ely Allen

The Titans have announced that they will be releasing veteran cornerback Chidobe Awuzie, per Titans senior writer/editor Jim Wyatt. Unless it’s announced that the team is designating the move as one of its two post-June 1 releases, the team will eat $12.51MM in dead money and save $1.73MM in cap space.

Veteran Titans reporter Paul Kuharsky confirms this will not be a post-June 1 release, but the move obviously represents an underwhelming end to Awuzie’s time in Tennessee. The former Cowboy and Bengal inked a three-year, $36MM deal in free agency last offseason, but it did not pan out as expected. Awuzie was limited to eight games in 2024 by a groin injury, something which will no doubt hurt his market this spring.

The Titans are already on the hook for $7.51MM in 2025 compensation, but Over the Cap’s Jason Fitzgerald writes the timing of this release means another $3.98MM in salary for this year will not need to be paid out. Tennessee entered Saturday near the top of the NFL in terms of remaining cap space with roughly $55MM available anyway, but those additional funds could be used to add a starting replacement in the secondary. The team still has 2024 trade acquisition L’Jarius Sneed and 2022 second-rounder Roger McCreary on the books at the cornerback spot.

Despite Awuzie’s absence and the fact Sneed only played five games in his debut Titans campaign, the team finished second in the NFL in passing yards allowed. The latter will be counted on to play a notable role in repeating that success in 2025, but Awuzie will be on the move once again. His four-year run in Dallas was followed by three Cincinnati seasons, a span which included his starting role being lost at the end of the 2023 campaign. The Titans deal allowed for the 29-year-old to continue working with ex-Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan, but that has proven to be a short-lived arrangement.

When healthy, Awuzie handled a 77% snap share and recorded one interception and four pass breakups during his lone Titans campaign. The Colorado product’s coverage statistics (57.7% completion percentage, 89.7 passer rating allowed) were not the best of his career, but they could convince an interested team he is still capable of operating as a starter at this point in his career. Further removed from his 2022 ACL tear, it will be interesting to see how quickly Awuzie can land a new deal.

Tennessee, meanwhile, will look to address the cornerback spot in the remaining waves of free agency and/or the draft. The team’s secondary has already seen Quandre Diggs replaced by Xavier Woods at the safety spot, and further changes could be coming.

Adam La Rose contributed to this post.

Minor NFL Transactions: 3/14/25

March 14th, 2025 at 10:25pm CST by Ely Allen

Friday’s minor NFL moves after a busy week of transactions:

Arizona Cardinals

Atlanta Falcons

Buffalo Bills

Detroit Lions

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Los Angeles Chargers

Los Angeles Rams

Miami Dolphins

New York Giants

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

Seattle Seahawks

Tennessee Titans

Washington Commanders

Steelers To Bring Back Mason Rudolph

March 14th, 2025 at 12:14am CST by Adam La Rose

It remains to be seen who will operate as the Steelers’ starting quarterback in 2025, but a familiar face will handle backup duties. Mason Rudolph is returning to Pittsburgh, Mike Garafolo and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network report.

This will be a two-year pact worth $8MM. Rudolph will collect $4.5MM in guarantees upon returning to the Steelers after playing with them from 2018-23. Another pact with the Titans received consideration, per the report, but Rudolph’s preference was to come back to Pittsburgh.

The Steelers rebuilt their QB room last offseason, allowing Rudolph to take a one-year Titans deal while trading away Kenny Pickett and releasing Mitch Trubisky. They were replaced by Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, setting up a notable one-year experiment with both new passers on expiring deals. Fields was the team’s preference regarding a 2025 deal, but he is headed to the Jets. That leaves Wilson as a fallback option in Pittsburgh’s case, although he has visits lined up with the Giants and Browns.

Of course, the Steelers are among the suitors for Aaron Rodgers. The NFL’s next major quarterback domino will be his decision on playing in 2025, and if so, where. Pittsburgh has made an offer, and Dianna Russini of The Athletic notes the team is waiting to hear back from him. The four-time MVP has other suitors, and the Giants have frequently been mentioned as a potential landing spot. The Vikings, meanwhile, still find themselves in the mix.

However things shake out atop the depth chart for Pittsburgh, Rudolph’s return will give the team a familiar backup option. The 29-year-old made 13 starts across his Steelers tenure, with eight of them coming in 2019. He posted a passer rating of 86.9 along with a 19:11 touchdown-to-interception ratio in Pittsburgh, numbers which left plenty to be desired. Rudolph’s one-year Titans pact came with limited expectations but it allowed him to compete for the starting gig.

Will Levis‘ second year in the NFL did not go according to plan in Tennessee, and the team benched him in December. That opened the door for Rudolph to see playing time, and the Oklahoma State product made five starts amongst his eight appearances. After going 1-4 in that span and throwing as many touchdown passes (nine) as interceptions, it comes as little surprise Rudolph waited longer than many of the other quarterbacks on the market to land a deal. He is returning to an organization which valued him throughout his career, though, and it will be interesting to see if h winds up seeing any playing time in 2025.

Titans, QB Brandon Allen Agree To Deal

March 13th, 2025 at 1:12pm CST by Adam La Rose

The Titans saw quarterback Mason Rudolph agree to return to Pittsburgh earlier today, but they have not waited long to find his replacement. Brandon Allen has a one-year deal in place with Tennessee, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports.

This pact will allow for a reunion between Allen and Titans head coach Brian Callahan. The pair worked together in Cincinnati when Callahan served as the team’s offensive coordinator. Allen backed up Joe Burrow for three seasons with the Bengals before spending the past two years in San Francisco.

Allen did not see any playing time in 2023 while serving as the 49ers’ third-string option. Sam Darnold‘s departure created a QB2 vacancy, though, and Allen competed for it with Josh Dobbs during the offseason. Dobbs held a lead at one point, but Allen would up earning the gig.

As a result, the 32-year-old made a total of three appearances and one start last year. Allen has logged only 10 starts over the course of his career, but he represents an experienced backup option (especially given his ties to Callahan). He could find himself serving as the Titans’ QB2 in 2025, but that will of course depend on how the team approaches the starting position this offseason.

Will Levis has two more years on his rookie contract, but he found himself being benched late last season with his development not going according to plan. The Titans could add a replacement by using the No. 1 pick in April’s draft on a quarterback (likely Cam Ward), but as expected calls have come in regarding a trade. Several suitors could look to move up to board and acquire Ward in the process, something which would lead to the Titans selecting Shedeur Sanders or one of the other passers in the 2025 class.

Regardless of how things shake out atop the depth chart, Allen will be in place as a backup option. Teams still in need of a quarterback addition during free agency now have one fewer option to choose from.

Rams To Release Cooper Kupp; Latest On WR’s Market

March 12th, 2025 at 11:55pm CST by Sam Robinson

No Cooper Kupp trade partner has emerged. The Rams are moving on via release, NFL.com’s Tom Pelisseso reports. Releasing Kupp after the start of the 2025 league year (3pm CT today) will allow for a post-June 1 designation.

This will make Kupp a first-time free agent, and although no trade materialized, Kupp will generate FA interest, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo adds. At least three teams have known interest, Fox Sports’ Peter Schrager notes. The Packers should be a team to watch here, KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson tweets, mentioning the Seahawks and Titans as potential fits as well. The Raiders would also be interested, per The Athletic’s Tashan Reed, though they do not appear willing to make this move without a notable discount.

Kupp will join a host of accomplished early-30-something WRs in free agency. Stefon Diggs, Keenan Allen, Amari Cooper and Tyler Lockett are also available. None put together a season quite like what Kupp did in 2021, though his injuries since will limit his market. Kupp’s availability also stands to affect the above-referenced wideouts’ markets, as it is becoming crowded at receiver in free agency. Diontae Johnson joins this cast, but the veteran starter’s complicated 2024 has tanked his stock.

The Rams will be on the hook for a $5MM Kupp salary guarantee this year and prorated signing bonus money in 2025 and ’26. They will, however, avoid a $7.5MM roster bonus by moving on now. Kupp was due a $12.5MM base salary in 2025. The Rams can split the $22.26MM dead money bill over two offseasons with a post-June 1 designation. That expected move will create $15MM in 2025 cap savings.

Kupp, 31, said Sean McVay told him he would be traded shortly after the season. The former triple-crown winner made the Rams’ intentions public, indicating he was out after eight seasons. Although the Rams were willing to eat salary in a trade, teams waited them out and will determine FA proposals. Les Snead said Kupp’s $7.5MM bonus, which was due in a few days, served as the deadline for a decision and never made it sound like a ninth season together was in the cards.

Between the time the Rams informed Kupp he would be out of the picture soon and the actual release transpiring, the team signed Davante Adams. The three-time All-Pro will step in alongside Puka Nacua. The Rams’ Adams contract only brings 2025 guarantees, as a 2026 cut with a bit of dead money attached would be in play if that does not prove a it. Adams, however, has stayed much healthier than Kupp and has shown more consistency as a high-end receiver — even if Kupp has produced this decade’s best WR season.

The former third-round pick out of Division I-FCS Eastern Washington, Kupp made the closest push to Calvin Johnson‘s single-season receiving record. He paired 145 receptions and 16 touchdowns with the 1,947 passing yards. Kupp also trails only 2008 Larry Fitzgerald for yards in a single playoffs, having totaled 478 and six TDs — including a Super Bowl LVI game-winner — to help the Rams to a title. Significant injury trouble intervened in the years that followed, as ankle and hamstring maladies kept him off the field for 18 games over the past three seasons.

The Rams had given Kupp two extensions, with the second coming less than two years after the first. Kupp agreed to a three-year, $47.25MM extension in 2020 — after he had bounced back from a 2018 ACL tear with a 1,000-yard 2019 — and he inked a three-year, $80.1MM deal months after Super Bowl LVI.

Kupp ultimately could not deliver on the second payday, though he still showed he has starter-level form in his tank. He posted 710 receiving yards and six TDs in 12 games last season, though the team did not turn to him much down the stretch. We will soon find out how other clubs value him, especially on a crowded market.

Minor NFL Transactions: 3/12/25

March 12th, 2025 at 10:59pm CST by Sam Robinson

Here are the minor moves from the first day of the 2025 league year:

Atlanta Falcons

Baltimore Ravens

Carolina Panthers

Cincinnati Bengals

Dallas Cowboys

Detroit Lions

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

Minnesota Vikings

New England Patriots

New York Giants

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

San Francisco 49ers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tennessee Titans

Washington Commanders

Yes, a few of these players have graduated from our minor-moves sector, but today’s signing blitz being what it was, they land here. Ford highlights the batch contractually, agreeing (per ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter) to a two-year, $4MM deal. Ford played on more than 70% of Cleveland’s special teams snaps over the past two seasons.

Trask will reprise his role as Baker Mayfield‘s backup, with NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport indicating the former second-round pick is staying on a one-year, $2.79MM contract. Trask and Mayfield competed for the job in 2023, but as was the case with the Drew Lock–Geno Smith battle a year prior, the winner never looked back. Trask will be in place for a fifth Bucs season, having moved from third-stringer during the Tom Brady era to QB2 in the Mayfield years.

Hawkins will stay with the Patriots on a two-year deal worth up to $2.2MM, according to the Boston Herald’s Doug Kyed. A 2022 full-time Falcons starter, Hawkins saw Jessie Bates replace him in 2023. The Falcons later waived Hawkins, who ended up on the Chargers in 2023. The Pats used him as a seven-game starter in 2024, when he made 48 tackles (three for loss).

Titans Sign DL Dre’Mont Jones

March 12th, 2025 at 7:40pm CST by Rory Parks

The Titans have agreed to sign veteran defensive lineman Dre’Mont Jones, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. It will be a one-year, $10MM deal.

Nearly two years ago to the day, Jones signed a three-year, $51MM pact with the Seahawks as one of the more sought-after D-linemen on that year’s free agent market. After a strong platform year in 2022 with the Broncos, who selected him in the third-round of the 2019 draft, Jones came to Seattle with high expectations.

He did not quite live up to those expectations, however. The Ohio State product appeared in all 17 games (16 starts) in 2023, but he ranked as Pro Football Focus’ 55th-best interior defender out of 130 qualifiers. He contributed 4.5 sacks, his lowest total since his rookie campaign.

In an effort to help Jones get back to peak form, Seahawks head coach and celebrated defensive mind Mike Macdonald moved Jones around the formation during last year’s minicamp and had him line up with the outside linebackers and edge rushers as well as with the defensive tackles. Jones, who operated primarily from the interior during his first Seattle slate, had begun to see more time on the edge towards the tail end of that season, and Macdonald planned for that usage to continue in 2024.

It was not enough to prevent Jones, 28, from losing his starting job to rookie first-rounder Byron Murphy halfway through the season, which suggested he would not finish out his Seahawks contract. He was indeed released as part of a cap-related purge last week, though his age and his ability to generate a pass rush from the interior indicated he would not be unemployed for too long.

The Titans’ D-line was one of the team’s bright spots in a generally disappointing 2024 season, and Tennessee agreed to re-sign Sebastian Joseph-Day just two days ago. The trio of Joseph-Day, 2024 second-rounder T’Vondre Sweat, and three-time Pro Bowler Jeffery Simmons make for a strong unit, and Jones will add a high-upside, versatile piece that will give DC Dennard Wilson the ability to deploy the optimal defensive front depending on down-and-distance.

Titans, G Kevin Zeitler Agree To Deal

March 12th, 2025 at 4:20pm CST by Sam Robinson

Continuing to play well into his mid-30s, Kevin Zeitler will once again command a solid one-year deal in free agency. The nomadic starter is heading to Nashville.

The Titans are adding Zeitler on a one-year, $9MM deal, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. Zeitler is moving back to the AFC after a season in Detroit. This will continue a long-running career for Zeitler, who entered the NFL in the 2012 first round.

Although Zeitler is a former Browns blocker, his Cleveland years predated Bill Callahan‘s time as Browns O-line coach. The current Titans OL boss will still coach one of the most experienced guards in NFL history. Zeitler made 16 more starts last season, running his career total to 197. Among guards, that is tied for eighth all time. With 10 starts in 2025, Zeitler can move to third on that list. With another 16-start season, Zeitler can move into the top 15 all time for starts among all offensive linemen.

The Titans have added both Zeitler and left tackle Dan Moore Jr. this offseason. Zeitler will provide tremendous experience on an O-line that features two rookie-contract players (JC Latham, Peter Skoronski) and veterans with inconsistent resumes (Lloyd Cushenberry, Dan Moore). This is a fully revamped O-line now, as two additions have come in each of the past two offseasons. Even as he reaches an age-35 season, Zeitler may be the safest bet here.

This could sting Detroit, which relied on Zeitler to help launch a full-on Jahmyr Gibbs breakout season alongside David Montgomery. Pro Football Focus graded Zeitler as the No. 3 overall guard last season. The Lions were considering a second Zeitler contract, but nothing transpired on that front. He will now head to a team that won 12 fewer games than his previous squad last season.

The former Bengals, Browns, Giants, Ravens and Lions blocker will not exactly be going to a team expected to contend. But the Titans may well be bringing in a first-round quarterback. Having Zeitler around to help that to-be-determined prospect — and/or Will Levis — stands to help a team that went 3-14 in 2024.

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