Broncos After the fallout with QB Russell Wilson this offseason, the Broncos stood pat at pick No. 12 and selected QB Bo Nix in the first round. Denver GM George Paton believes Nix is more game-ready than the other quarterbacks in the class. “You look at it, it’s hard because this is new but 24 years old is not that old for football,” Paton said, via Mike Klis of 9News. “You evaluate it but you’re really evaluating the player, you’re evaluating the person. Evaluate how they fit in with the organization, especially for a quarterback. To me the age, they’re going to be more, especially with a gu ..read more

The Kansas City Chiefs announced Saturday that they’ve officially signed 17 undrafted free agents to contracts.  The full list includes: Texas Christian RB Emani Bailey Utah CB Miles Battle Southern Mississippi LB Swayze Bozeman Kansas State WR Phillip Brooks James Madison WR Reggie Brown Texas Tech TE Baylor Cupp Marshall T Ethan Driskell Penn State LB Curtis Jacobs Florida State DT Fabien Lovett Tennessee Chattanooga T Griffin McDowell Oklahoma G McKade Mettauer Kent State CB Derrick Miller Brigham Young P Ryan Rehkow Southern California CB Christian Roland-Wallace UCLA RB Carson Stee ..read more

Broncos Mike Sando of The Athletic cites an anonymous NFL executive who is confident first-round QB Bo Nix will be great in HC Sean Payton‘s system. “I’m betting on it (succeeding) heavily,” an executive said. “Bo has experience, he has enough arm talent and I think he is going to do what he is coached to do. Sean Payton’s system is optimal for him. Bo is not going to go off-script as much as Russ was going to do. Look, I don’t want him to be successful, but I think he is going to be legit there.” Another executive reiterated Nix will do well under Payton, who has a proven ability in grooming ..read more

Bills Signed WR Chase Claypool, LB Deion Jones, and DE Dawuane Smoot Chiefs Waived LB Jordan Smith and WR Shi Smith Released WR Anthony Miller Withdrew exclusive rights tender from LB Cole Christiansen Eagles Signed Maryland OT Gottlieb Ayedze, Tennessee TE McCallan Castles, Howard OT Anim Dankwah, Baylor DT Gabe Hall, Georgia RB Kendall Milton, LSU S Andre’ Sam, and international DT Laekin Vakalahi Placed OT Le’Raven Clark on injured reserve Received an exemption for international DT Laekin Vakalahi Signed sixth-round WR Johnny Wilson Jets Signed Georgia Southern CB Shemar Bartholomew ..read more

The Kansas City Chiefs officially withdrew the exclusive rights tender from LB Cole Christiansen on Friday.  Christiansen is now an unrestricted free agent.  Christiansen, 26, wound up going undrafted out of Army back in 2020. He later signed a rookie contract with the Chargers and was on and off of their roster over the next two years. The Chiefs signed Christiansen to their practice squad in 2022 and he has been with the team ever since. Kansas City tendered Christiansen an exclusive rights offer this offseason. In 2023, Christiansen appeared in five games for the Chiefs but did n ..read more

The Kansas City Chiefs officially cut LB Jordan Smith, WR Shi Smith, and WR Anthony Miller on Friday, per the NFL Transaction wire.  Both Jordan Smitha and Shi Smith will be unrestricted free agents after they pass through waivers unclaimed.  Miller, 29, is a former second-round pick of the Bears back in 2018. He was in the final year of his four-year, $5,353,700 contract when the Bears traded him to the Texans to swap a seventh-round pick for a fifth-round pick. Miller was owed a non-guaranteed base salary of $1,210,050 for the 2021 season when the Texans waived him in Oc ..read more

Broncos After the Broncos selected 2024 first-round QB Bo Nix in the draft, many have compared him to HC Sean Payton’s former QB Drew Brees. Nix spoke about being honored by the comparison and touched on the importance of continuity. “I grew up watching Drew Brees, I grew up watching Coach Payton coach,” Nix said, via the team’s YouTube. “I watched their Super Bowl. … Whenever you’re compared to a guy like Drew Brees, it’s an honor just because of the success he had and the career that he had. So all it is just talk. I have to go out there and continue to do things just for the respect of that ..read more

Undrafted free agency is an important part of the team-building process. From a pure numbers perspective, the NFL has to rely on undrafted free agents to compromise somewhere between a quarter and a third of all active players — not even counting practice squads. There were 257 players drafted last month and at least that many, probably more than 300, will be signed as undrafted free agents.  That makes undrafted free agency a potentially important source of talent. Ninety percent of these players will be cut and wash out of the NFL in a few years. But there will be a couple dozen who sti ..read more

Broncos Broncos HC Sean Payton said QBs Zach Wilson and Bo Nix are “going to compete” for the starting job and they had genuine interest in Wilson.  “These guys are all going to compete,” Payton said, via BroncosWire. “We were really happy to bring Zach on board. There was no specific timing, that just took a little bit of time. In other words, George [Paton] and Joe [Douglas] with the Jets have been working on that. So it wasn’t a smoke screen. I know when we signed him it was closer to the draft. It very well could have been three weeks ago.” Payton said they considered the upside with ..read more

Chiefs Chiefs HC Andy Reid said they will focus on developing recently signed Louis Rees-Zammitt, who is a former rugby player, as a running back.  “We’ll start him off at the running back position, get him to feel comfortable with that going forward here,” Reid said, via ProFootballTalk. “He’s had an opportunity to also go down there to Dallas and work with Pat and so again, he’ll get used to some of these calls through our Zooms, and the plays, and then we’ll just see where it goes from there.” Dolphins Dolphins fifth-round OLB Mohamed Kamara said he is “very, very angry” about sli ..read more