Today’s minor moves:
Arizona Cardinals
Atlanta Falcons
Buffalo Bills
Chicago Bears
Dallas Cowboys
Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings
New Orleans Saints
New York Jets
Jamin Davis is headed to the AFC for the first time in his career. The former first-rounder has agreed to a one-year deal with the Jets, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports. 
Davis was drafted by Washington as a linebacker, and he logged 36 total starts with the team. Things did not go as planned at that position, though, and near the end of his time in the nation’s capital a switch to edge rusher was made. In spite of that move, Davis found himself on waivers midway through the 2024 campaign.
After a brief stint on the Packers’ practice squad, the Kentucky product was claimed by the Vikings as an Ivan Pace injury replacement at linebacker. Davis made four appearances with Minnesota, seeing sparse usage on defense while logging a partial special teams workload. He ended the campaign in the Jets’ organization.
This move will therefore allow Davis to remain in New York, although he will not be a familiar face to the team’s new regime (general manager Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn). The 26-year-old’s new pact will no doubt check in near the league minimum, and he will turn his attention to competing for a roster spot during the offseason. The Jets managed to retain Jamien Sherwood on a $15MM-per-year deal, but as expected they released fellow linebacker C.J. Mosley yesterday.
Special teamer Samuel Eguavoen is a free agent after spending each of the past two seasons with the Jets. If he were to depart on the open market, Davis could attempt to fill his third phase role while offering experience as a defensive starter.
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).
As expected, C.J. Mosley‘s time with the Jets has come to an end. The Pro Bowl linebacker has been released, per a team announcement. 
ESPN’s Rich Cimini notes this move comes with a post-June 1 designation. As a result, the cap hit which remained for 2025 (the final year of Mosley’s deal) will be spread out across two years. The Jets will see $4MM in cap savings this year while incurring a dead money charge of $8.78MM. The remaining $7.65MM of dead money will hit the cap next year.
Mosley, who was selected by the Ravens in the first round of the 2014 draft, earned Pro Bowl acclaim in four of his five seasons in Baltimore, setting himself up for a lucrative payday after he played out the fifth-year option of his rookie deal in 2018. He signed a five-year, $85MM contract with the Jets in March 2019, which shattered the then-record for inside linebackers and which felt like an overpay at the time, even when taking his Pro Bowl accolades into account.
Gang Green felt the financial burden of Mosley’s deal even more acutely when the Alabama product played in just two games of the 2019 season due to injury and exercised his COVID opt-out for 2020. However, he settled in nicely over the following three seasons, averaging nearly 160 tackles per year and earning another Pro Bowl nod in 2022. Last season, the advanced metrics finally placed him among the ranks of the game’s elite middle linebackers, as Pro Football Focus assigned him an 82.9 overall grade that was good for the sixth-highest mark out of 82 qualified players.
Last offseason, Mosley – who was originally slated to be a free agent after the current campaign – agreed to a brief extension that keeps him under club control through 2025. By signing that deal, Mosley agreed to a pay cut in exchange for additional guarantees, though just over half of his $8.25MM salary for 2025 is guaranteed. The guarantees proved effective for Mosley when his 2025 season unceremoniously ended in in Week 7 after only three starts in four appearances. He intended to make a comeback later in the season, as he dealt with a herniated disc, but he didn’t end up suiting up again for New York.
Mosley joins a free agent class that has seen nearly all of the most-talented linebacker options already sign new deals. At 32 years old, he’s definitely the oldest free agent linebacker option, but if he can get healthy, he could be a steal this late in free agency. He’ll be available with remaining free agents like Isaiah Simmons, De’Vondre Campbell, Kyzir White, E.J. Speed, Eric Kendricks, and others.
The Jets, on the other hand, secured their future at the position by re-signing the man who filled in admirably for Mosley this past year. New York signed Jamien Sherwood to a three-year, $45MM deal just prior to the start of free agency this past weekend.
Ely Allen contributed to this post.
One of the top remaining centers on the market has found a new home. Josh Myers has a deal in place with the Jets, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reports. 
This will be a one-year contract, Fowler adds. Myers will collect $3.5MM after serving as Green Bay’s center starter over the course of his rookie contract. This marks New York’s second offensive line addition of the day, with tackle Chukwuma Okorafor also being added.
Neither addition will likely move the needle much for fans. Despite both players bringing a litany of starting experience with them to New York, neither player has graded out very favorably over the years, per Pro Football Focus (subscription required). Out of 40 centers graded this year, PFF ranked Myers at 38th. His best season analytically came when he ranked 26th of 36 graded players in 2022.
This is less important for Myers than for Okorafor. The team’s starting center from this past season, Joe Tippmann, graded out as the seventh-best center in the NFL, per PFF. Returning guards Alijah Vera-Tucker and John Simpson also graded out favorably as the ninth- and 11th-best guards in the league, per PFF.
The Myers signing is interesting for a team that saw such strong seasons analytically from its three interior linemen. The team will be replacing both offensive tackle spots, though, as Tyron Smith is a free agent (and possibly a retiree), and Morgan Moses has signed with the Patriots. Okorafor and last year’s first-round pick Olu Fashanu are currently slotted for those starting roles on the outside.
Without a starting spot for Myers, it’s assumed that he’ll come in as a potential sixth-man for the offensive line. He doesn’t have the experience to perform as a swing tackle, having played center in college, as well, but he could serve as a fourth interior lineman with extensive starting experience in case of injury.
Green Bay will have a vacancy to fill at center now. They may opt to slide Elgton Jenkins into the role, as he’s started there for them in the past, or they may turn to the draft or other free agents to fill the role externally.
Ely Allen contributed to this post.
After a very short-lived tenure with the Patriots, Chukwuma Okorafor has a new deal in place that will keep him in the AFC East. The veteran tackle signed with the Jets on Wednesday, per the transactions wire.
Okorafor’s 2024 season could not have gone much worse. The Patriots went into the year with major question marks along the offensive line, including left tackle. Okorafor was the first man up, but he lasted just 12 snaps in New England’s regular season opener before being benched for poor performance. Shortly thereafter, he voluntarily left the team and did not return.
It sounded as if he could even retire, as it was reported that he was “checked out mentally” and “contemplating his future in football.” Last month, though, it became clear that he intended to continue his playing career, and the Pats did him a favor by cutting him early so that he could get a head start on free agency.
Despite the forgettable 2024 season, Okorafor has found a new employer on the first day of the 2025 league year. And while he was clearly miscast as a blindside blocker, he has plenty of starting experience on the right side, serving as the Steelers’ primary RT from 2020-22 (he lost his starting job to Broderick Jones midway through the 2023 campaign).
Though Okorafor was not a world-beater during his time in Pittsburgh, he did enough to land a three-year, $29.25MM deal from the club in 2022. The above-referenced benching in 2023 was triggered not by especially poor play, but by unspecified comments he made at the end of a Week 8 loss.
The Jets allowed 2024 RT Morgan Moses to defect to the Patriots, and it would be surprising if Okorafor represented New York’s primary Moses replacement plan. He will nonetheless provide experienced depth at a (presumably) inexpensive rate.
Adam La Rose contributed to this post.
The Jets are re-signing cornerback Isaiah Oliver, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.
Oliver is a seven-year veteran who appeared in all 17 games for the Jets in 2024 with seven starts. He played primarily in the slot in New York, but didn’t make many plays on the ball with just three passes defended and zero interceptions. Oliver will likely return to a similar role in the Jets defense in 2025 while continuing to contribute on special teams.
Originally a 2018 second-round pick by the Falcons, Oliver emerged as a starter during his second season in Atlanta. He started 28 games across 2019 and 2020 and was poised for a similar workload in 2021. A knee injury ended his season after just four games, and Oliver missed the first five games of the 2022 season as he worked he was back to full health.
Oliver then signed a two-year, $6.75MM deal with the 49ers in 2023. He started five of San Francisco’s first eight games, but played sparingly for the rest of the year. The 49ers released him after the season, and Oliver signed with the Jets for $2.5MM in 2024.
The Jets lost D.J. Reed and Brandin Echols in free agency this week, so retaining Oliver alongside new addition Brandon Stephens was important to maintaining their secondary depth.
It’s that time of year. It is time to begin sorting through the contracts agreed to early in free agency. We will start with some of the biggest deals to emerge this week.
Monday’s only tender decision in the NFL:
Tendered:
New York has made the decision to tender their third-year safety. Adams has started 26 games the past two years and is a year removed from nabbing three interceptions. It’s reportedly a right-of-first-refusal tender worth $3.2MM for one year.
The Jets are in line to have a complete reset at their safety positions in 2025, and it looks like they’ll start by signing former Jaguars safety Andre Cisco. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Cisco and the Jaguars have come to an agreement on a one-year, $10MM contract. 
A former third-round pick out of Syracuse, Cisco made himself a key part of the Jaguars secondary as a rookie in 2021. He slowly took over the job as a starter from Andrew Wingard that season before establishing himself as a full-time starter. Cisco’s best two seasons came in 2022 and 2023, in which he started all 30 games he appeared in and racked up 15 passes defensed and seven interceptions for 136 yards and a touchdown.
In those two seasons, Cisco graded just above average, according to Pro Football Focus (subscription required). The analytics site ranked him as the 39th-best safety out of 88 graded players in 2022 and the 34th-best out of 95 in 2023. The 2024 NFL season saw a decline in analytics and production for Cisco, as PFF ranked him the 70th-best safety of 98 players graded at the position. Statistically, he only logged one interception to go along with seven passes defensed.
New York will be willing to disregard a down year likely based on Cisco’s youth. At only 24 years old, Cisco already has 47 starts under his belt and has shown he can be effective. The Jets will hope to see that potential turn back into production in 2025. With Chuck Clark, Tony Adams, Ashtyn Davis, and Jalen Mills all hitting the free agent market from New York this offseason, Cisco immediately becomes a crucial addition to the roster.
The Jaguars, on the other hand, have already filled the vacancy left by Cisco, as they’ve reportedly reached a deal to acquire former Texans safety Eric Murray. Murray will team up with Darnell Savage and Antonio Johnson to fill out the back end of Jacksonville’s secondary.