NFL Offseason 2026

No one hates themselves that much, surely?

The Raiders will also eat the bulk of Smith's contract for the 2026 season. He is set to draw a base salary of $26.5 million in 2026, $18.5 million of which is guaranteed. The Jets will take Smith on a salary around the league minimum, per multiple reports.

And nobody goes on vacation to Cleveland.

ah ok - much better from Jets then

I keep wondering when Ben DiNucci's phone is going to ring?

niche
just my stile

to be fair shaheed is a bit more than a non-elite wr
no need to spoil 'cause the nfl makes you click through anyway

You’re right. Shaheed isn’t the best example. Pierce, Doubs, Wan’Dale, etc. are better examples of the trend.

Only the Jets would think it’s possible.

saw something interesting while checking on Shaheed stats....

he played 18 regular season games in the 2025 season

nfl has a salary floor, teams need to spend at least a certain amount of cap anyway

so paying geno is fine for them - if not they'd have to do some silly 1 year deals with other people anyway

this is why during the trust the process years, jj redick kept getting 1 year deals from the 76ers at very different amounts each year not because his market demand had changed but rather due to tanking they had no money tied up - they didn't want to sign a player who'd make them good, instead they got a locker room guy who was plausible and was paid just enough on a 1 year deal to make it so the team didn't face any penalties for not spending enough

thee shaheed late season down 16 to a flock of rams led by matt stafford with eight minutes left on the fuse to decide all playoff homefield advantage return td was the spark ignighting hawks to a playoff donkey kong seattle powder keg into first place and all associated spoils and trapping that might entrail

NFL floor is average over 3 or 4 seasons though so it’s actually counterproductive to pay Geno or filler players, unlike NBA where it’s necessary. And they can roll salary cap space over into future years

So it’s better for NFL teams to strip everything down and suck for draft picks and to clear the books and then have more money saved up to bring in decent veterans to accelerate their bounce back.

Caveat is that Jets aren’t paying Geno

Oh no, sorry g-bebe. I’m guessing Crosby’s knee is more ****ed than reported.

wat

time put the warranty clause through maxximum testing

He failed his physical .

Ahahhaahahhahahahhahahaha

Carlos correa found football!

Some really insane $$$ being thrown around but for some reason this one jumped out at me: Daniel Bellinger 3yr/24-14 to the Titans. God bless my Aztec brother for getting that $$$ but seriously? I must be really out of the loop when it comes to NFL contracts these days.

Raiders made so many moves this ****s up I get a single 2 or a couple of 3s is enough to get Crosby

I need to hear more but we have gotten so absolutely ****ed in this.

guessing they're on the phone to Trey H's agent as we type

Seems very bad for both teams.

Lol raiders

There's been several notable instances of a team failing a player from a physical and that player being totally fine. I'm sure it does however mean nobody is trading two firsts.

Miami failing Drew Brees being the most memorable one.

Craziest ravens trade since the time they traded for Terrell Owens and that drama that got resolved eventually by TO getting traded to philly instead.

vast majority of WR2 types that gets paid ends up a disaster and half of these end up bad anyway but the NFL cap keeps going up every year and teams have plenty of money to blow so they do. There's a drought every year of good players worth spending that kind of money on and its gotta go to somebody.

It's not like other sports where you're completely boned with a bad contract for awhile, ie, if bellinger blows, he's not getting the final 10 million in year3 and maybe not even the 2nd year.

I believe it's only a one year rollover. I agree Raiders I would've just rolled over and go for the spree next year but they decided to blow it now while they have the cheap rookie qb, it's not the worst thing especially with improving the OL and contracts are just going to be more expensive next year anyway.

Jets and Browns have tried the stripped everything down and suck and that did not work at all (jets even *hit* on the acquired picks last time and still didn't work). Tanking only works the sparingly few years there's a clear cut top QB or class. Even pointing to recent drafts, outside of caleb turning into prime montana with 2 min left in the game all year somehow, both were kinda rough this postseason. Both of those teams had at least above average luck, usually that doesn't repeat the next season. KC was the only team that had managed that forever until this year.
edit--the bears offseason rise was via OL trades, free agency actually last year mostly ended up torching money.

Geno trade is hilarious but the Jets are paying him less than what backup qb's are getting in free agency and he just got the raiders the top pick the jets want but we don't know if there's going to be a clear top qb there for the next draft yet.