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Minor NFL Transactions: 8/29/24

August 29th, 2024 at 8:15pm CST by Sam Robinson

Here are Thursday’s minor moves:

Arizona Cardinals

Carolina Panthers

Cincinnati Bengals

Dallas Cowboys 

Denver Broncos

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Las Vegas Raiders

Los Angeles Chargers

Los Angeles Rams

Miami Dolphins

New York Giants

Philadelphia Eagles

Pittsburgh Steelers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tennessee Titans

Washington Commanders

  • Removed from IR via injury settlement: LB Keandre Jones, S Ben Nikke

Schlottmann suffered what Brian Daboll called a long-term injury. Elaborating on the injury Schlottmann suffered in practice Wednesday, The Athletic’s Dan Duggan notes the veteran backup O-lineman will rehab a broken fibula. The injury is expected to shut down the free agency addition for at least two months. No surgery is on tap for Schlottmann. The Giants considering him for activation may depend on their injury situation, as teams only have eight regular-season IR activations. The Giants have seven presently, as they used a summer IR designation on linebacker Matthew Adams on Tuesday.

Wednesday NFL Transactions: NFC South

August 28th, 2024 at 4:02pm CST by Sam Robinson

Following the 53-man roster cutdown deadline Tuesday, many teams will make slight tweaks to their rosters. In addition to waiver claims, teams can begin constructing their 16-man practice squads today. These Buccaneers, Falcons, Panthers and Saints moves are noted below.

Atlanta Falcons

Signed:

Claimed:

Signed to practice squad:

Carolina Panthers

Signed:

Claimed:

Waived:

  • WR Jalen Coker

Waived from IR:

Signed to practice squad:

New Orleans Saints

Signed:

Claimed:

Signed to practice squad:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Signed:

Claimed:

Waived:

Signed to practice squad:

2024 NFL Waiver Order

August 28th, 2024 at 10:42am CST by Sam Robinson

Waiver claims can begin coming in at 11am CT. While the waiver order will depend on 2024 records in several weeks, teams’ 2023 finishes currently determine it. Here is how the waiver priority list stacks up heading into today’s round of claims:

  1. Carolina Panthers
  2. Washington Commanders
  3. New England Patriots
  4. Arizona Cardinals
  5. Los Angeles Chargers
  6. New York Giants
  7. Tennessee Titans
  8. Atlanta Falcons
  9. Chicago Bears
  10. New York Jets
  11. Minnesota Vikings
  12. Denver Broncos
  13. Las Vegas Raiders
  14. New Orleans Saints
  15. Indianapolis Colts
  16. Seattle Seahawks
  17. Jacksonville Jaguars
  18. Cincinnati Bengals
  19. Los Angeles Rams
  20. Pittsburgh Steelers
  21. Miami Dolphins
  22. Philadelphia Eagles
  23. Cleveland Browns
  24. Dallas Cowboys
  25. Green Bay Packers
  26. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  27. Houston Texans
  28. Buffalo Bills
  29. Detroit Lions
  30. Baltimore Ravens
  31. San Francisco 49ers
  32. Kansas City Chiefs

Buccaneers Set 53-Man Roster

August 27th, 2024 at 10:59pm CST by Ben Levine

The Buccaneers surprised a bit in 2023 without Tom Brady in the lineup. With Baker Mayfield leading the way, the team managed to win their division and return to the postseason for the fourth-straight season. Before the team can look to make it five consecutive trips to the playoffs, the organization had to make some difficult roster decisions today. The team announced the following moves as they set their 53-man roster:

Released:

Waived:

Waived/injured:

Placed on IR:

The Buccaneers have continued their trend of building around draft picks. As Greg Auman of FOX Sports points out, 44 of Tampa Bay’s 53 players were either drafted by the organization or joined as an undrafted free agent. Among starters, the only players who didn’t join the organization as rooks are QB Baker Mayfield and guard Ben Bredeson.

The team will temporarily roll with only a pair of quarterbacks in Mayfield and backup Kyle Trask. John Wolford could have brought some starting experience to the QB room, as the former Ram started four games during his time in Los Angeles. The veteran also started the 2023 campaign on Tampa Bay’s p-squad before earning a promotion, so there’s a chance he follows a similar path this year.

Minor NFL Transactions: 8/26/24

August 26th, 2024 at 10:08pm CST by Ely Allen

There have been plenty of posts today about a number of teams releasing and waiving players ahead of roster cuts. Here are the best of the rest of the minor moves for Monday:

Carolina Panthers

Cincinnati Bengals

  • Waived: DE Justin Blazek

Cleveland Browns

Detroit Lions

Houston Texans

Indianapolis Colts

  • Waived: DE Levi Bell
  • Released: C Mike Panasiuk

Las Vegas Raiders

New York Giants

New York Jets

Philadelphia Eagles

Pittsburgh Steelers

San Francisco 49ers

Seattle Seahawks

  • Waived: CB Willie Roberts

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tennessee Titans

Nelson was an effective swing tackle for the Lions in the past three years. While he wasn’t able to stick with the Giants, he’s likely to draw interest elsewhere in the NFL.

The Eagles like Sam a lot at safety, but with a number of veterans atop the depth chart, there wasn’t room for him on the roster. The team plans to retain him on the practice squad should he clear waivers, per Andrew DiCecco of 975 The Fanatic. The Buccaneers have similar plans with Isaac, Taula, and Wisdom.

RB Chase Edmonds Expected To Miss 2024 Season

August 26th, 2024 at 9:24pm CST by Ben Levine

Chase Edmonds won’t be playing for the Buccaneers this season. According to Greg Auman of FOX Sports, the Buccaneers will place the RB on IR before final cuts. Auman clarifies that Edmonds will indeed miss the upcoming campaign.

Last week, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles told the media that the RB was expected to play in 2024. Edmonds had been sidelined since early training camp with an undisclosed injury. If Edmonds made the 53-man roster before landing on IR, he would have had to sit out at least four games. The Bucs could have also declared Edmonds as one of their two pre-cutdown IR stashes who are eligible to return in 2024. Instead, Edmonds’ only path to playing in 2024 would be via an injury settlement with the Buccaneers.

Edmonds was productive as an RB2 in Arizona to begin his career. This included 2020 and 2021 campaigns where he averaged 876 yards from scrimmage and 48 catches per season. He parlayed that performance into a two-year contract with the Dolphins, but he didn’t even make it through one season in Miami before getting shipped to Denver as part of the Bradley Chubb deal. Edmonds ultimately finished that 2022 season with 402 yards from scrimmage.

The running back caught on with the Buccaneers last offseason and was expected to serve as the team’s RB2. He missed four games towards the beginning of the year but otherwise served as Rachaad White‘s primary backup. Unfortunately for Edmonds, that role didn’t lead to much production, as the 28-year-old finished with a career-low 257 yards from scrimmage.

Edmonds’ role on the depth chart didn’t look nearly as secure heading into the 2024 preseason. The team added Bucky Irving in the fourth round, and the likes of Sean Tucker and Ramon Jefferson also found themselves climbing the ladder. Edmonds will now be the odd man out, although there’s a chance he sticks around on Tampa Bay’s IR for the entirety of the upcoming season.

Buccaneers To Release WR Sterling Shepard

August 26th, 2024 at 12:15pm CST by Sam Robinson

Sterling Shepard‘s reunion with Baker Mayfield is on hold. The Buccaneers are releasing the veteran wide receiver, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport tweets. This is unlikely to be the end of the line for the injury-prone wide receiver, however.

As a vested veteran, Shepard will pass straight to free agency. The Bucs have an emergency role in mind for the longtime Giant, with Rapoport adding the team is holding a practice squad spot. Shepard, who played with Mayfield at Oklahoma, could join the team’s P-squad Wednesday.

Shepard, 31, signed with the Bucs in June, doing so after his 2023 Giants season featured few opportunities. The Giants brought Shepard back after another major injury — an Achilles tear sustained midway through the 2022 season — but used him as a backup. Even that overstates how much Shepard played in his eighth Giants season. Shepard logged just 142 offensive snaps in 15 games last season, catching 10 passes for 57 yards and a touchdown.

Tampa Bay will run back its Mike Evans–Chris Godwin tandem for an eighth season, re-signing the perennial 1,000-yard receiver just before free agency. The team also returns 2023 draftee Trey Palmer and used a third-round pick on Washington’s Jalen McMillan. Shepard will join Rakim Jarrett in being left off the 53-man roster; the second-year receiver is expected to be placed on IR to open the year.

Formerly an Odell Beckham Jr. sidekick in New York, Shepard received an extension and logged several more seasons after the team traded the once-dynamic wideout. Shepard has not topped 700 receiving yards in a season since 2018, though he did reach 656 in 2020. The veteran slot player teamed with Mayfield in 2015 at Oklahoma and was in communication with his former college quarterback this offseason, leading to this Bucs agreement.

Shepard will soon be tied to a lower-cost deal with Tampa Bay, should he want to accept a deal to join a P-squad. This would be a first for the former second-round pick, but given his injury history (35 missed games since 2019), a Tampa taxi squad stay might be his only option to remain in the NFL.

Minor NFL Transactions: 8/25/24

August 25th, 2024 at 9:04pm CST by Adam La Rose

With roster cutdowns beginning around the league, Sunday saw a number of moves take place:

Atlanta Falcons

Buffalo Bills

Indianapolis Colts

Jacksonville Jaguars

Los Angeles Rams

Miami Dolphins

New York Giants

Pittsburgh Steelers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 

Buffalo’s decision to cut Jones marks a blow to his efforts in finding a roster spot on a new team. Considering the latest report on his status, however, it does not come as a surprise. The Bills dealt with a number of injuries at the linebacker spot last season and Matt Milano will miss extended time in 2024 due to a biceps tear. In spite of that, the team will look elsewhere for depth options unless Jones is retained via the practice squad later this week.

Buccaneers Plan For RB Chase Edmonds To Start Season On IR

August 24th, 2024 at 1:49pm CST by Ely Allen

As we near the start of the regular season, we are beginning to get a clearer picture of what NFL rosters will look like in Week 1. In one such instance, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles informed the media that running back Chase Edmonds would likely start the season on injured reserve, per Greg Auman of FOX Sports.

Edmonds spent the 2023 season as RB2 for Tampa Bay, running behind starter Rachaad White and before Ke’Shawn Vaughn. He finished his first season with the Buccaneers with 49 carries for 176 yards and 14 catches for 81 yards through the air.

Despite his status as the second back on the depth chart, last year saw the least-productive season of Edmonds’ career. Running mostly as the second back in Arizona during his rookie contract, Edmonds averaged about 388 rushing yards and 231 receiving yards per season as a Cardinal. He even earned 11 starts in 12 games during the final year of his rookie deal. He followed that up by splitting the 2022 season between Miami and Denver before making his way to Tampa last year.

Vaughn signed as a free agent in San Francisco, so without Vaughn and Edmonds, the top backup behind White is seemingly fourth-round rookie Bucky Irving out of Oregon. Originally a Golden Gopher as a freshman in college, Irving transferred from Minnesota to spend the past two seasons with the Ducks, amassing 2,238 rushing yards for 16 touchdowns and 712 receiving yards for five more scores through the air over that time. He hasn’t gotten much run throughout the preseason, but Tampa Bay won’t have much choice but to rely on him at the start of 2024.

Additionally, Bowles claims that second-year wide receiver Rakim Jarrett will follow Edmonds to IR. An undrafted rookie last season out of Maryland, Jarrett caught four passes for 60 yards in 2024. With some shuffling around in the receivers room this offseason, Jarrett was looking to start the year on the two-deep. Instead, he’ll likely miss the first four games of the year, at least.

While there is a rule that players placed on IR before the start of the regular season must spend the entire season there, there is also a new rule dictating that teams may place two players on IR before the roster cut deadline and still have them be eligible to return for the season. Any other players that a team plans to place on IR will need to spend at least on day of the 53-man roster before being moved to the injured list. It looks like Edmonds and Jarrett will be the unlucky two for Tampa Bay allowed to return.

Randy Gregory Expected To Retire

August 22nd, 2024 at 3:09pm CST by Adam La Rose

In the wake of his Buccaneers release officially taking place on Thursday, Randy Gregory‘s NFL career may well be over. The veteran edge rusher is expected to retire, Aaron Wilson of KPRC2 notes.

Gregory joined the Bucs in April after his brief stint with the 49ers to close out the 2023 campaign. He was dealt to San Francisco following the end of his highly underwhelming Broncos tenure. A five-year, $69.5MM Denver contract signed in 2022 only resulted in three sacks across 10 games played. The Tampa Bay deal represented an opportunity for a fresh start, but it did not work out.

The former second-rounder signed for $3MM, and his Buccaneers pact included a $1.3MM roster bonus. Since Gregory never reported to the team, though, Tampa Bay was in position to collect that payment. The bonus has indeed been paid back, per Greg Auman of Fox Sports. Between never keeping that money and the $50K in daily fines he accumulated, the Nebraska product’s financial situation was notably worsened during his (essentially) non-existent Tampa Bay tenure.

In June, it was learned Gregory filed a lawsuit against the Broncos and the NFL after being fined more than $500K for the use of a prescription medication containing THC. No developments on that front have taken place in recent months, but today’s news points to Gregory’s ability to add to his career earnings coming to an end. The cause for his ongoing absence remains unknown.

Entering the NFL as a Cowboys second-rounder, Gregory’s most productive season came with Dallas in 2018 (six sacks). The early portion of his career was marred by suspensions, though, and four substance abuse bans left him sidelined for the 2017 and ’19 campaigns. A deal seemed to be in place to remain with the Cowboys in 2022, but that agreement was soon replaced the Broncos one which included the same terms.

If Gregory, 31, does indeed hang up his cleats he will depart the league with 78 combined regular and postseason games to his name. His career earnings check in at roughly $33MM. It would come as a surprise if teams showed interest in him as a free agent given the nature of his Buccaneers exit.

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