Eagles, Jordan Davis Agree On Extension
The Eagles will avoid letting defensive tackle Jordan Davis play out his fifth-year option and hit free agency next offseason. Per NFL insider Jordan Schultz, Davis and the Eagles are finalizing a three-year, $78MM extension to keep the 26-year-old interior defender in Philadelphia. He becomes the highest-paid nose tackle in NFL history.
Davis’ $26MM AAV is tied with former teammate Milton Williams for the second-highest annual pay of any interior defensive lineman, per OverTheCap. The deal includes $65MM in guaranteed money, which would be the most fully guaranteed money at his position in league history. Including his fifth-year option, Davis will be under contract through the 2029 season for a total of $91MM, or $22.75MM per year. That is still a sizable amount for a player with just eight career sacks and no Pro Bowl or All-Pro recognition, but Davis still has plenty of untapped potential.
The Eagles leapfrogged the Ravens during the 2022 draft to select Davis with the No. 13 pick after four strong seasons at Georgia and one of the most impressive performances in the history of the Combine. The hulking 6-foot-6, 336-pounder got off to a slow start in the pros, logging just 3.5 sacks and six tackles for loss in his first three seasons. An ankle sprain and a carefully-managed snap count in Davis’ rookie season raised some concerns about his durability and fitness, but he played in every game in 2023 and 2024 with more than 900 total snaps.
In 2025, Davis took his game to another level. His 72 tackles, 4.5 sacks, nine tackles for loss, six passes defended, 686 defensive snaps, and 61% snap share were all career-highs. Those are not necessarily eye-popping numbers, but his size and strength consistently demanded double-teams in the trenches, creating better opportunities for his teammates.
Davis’ extension will raise questions about the Eagles’ plans with Jalen Carter, also a former Georgia first-round pick. He was the more productive player in 2023 and 2024, but he missed five games due to injury (and one due to an ejection) in 2025. Philadelphia will have to make a decision on his fifth-year option – worth $27.13MM (via OverTheCap) – by May 1. Carter will also be eligible for a long-term extension and will likely be shooting for the biggest defensive tackle contract of all-time. The market is currently capped by the $31.75MM per-year deal of Chris Jones, though Carter has yet to reach his level of production. Still, he should push close to $30MM per year, if not more, a pricey figure for a team that already has a lot of money committed to the future.
Still, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman is known as a salary cap wizard and could certainly find a way to keep Carter even after Davis’ extension. If he cannot, he will at least have Davis anchoring the middle of his defense for at least the next four seasons.
Nikhil Mehta contributed to this post.
RFA/ERFA Tender Decisions: 3/7/26
Here are Saturday’s tender decisions:
RFAs
Non-tendered:
- Broncos: DL Matt Henningsen
- Chiefs: OL Mike Caliendo
Henningsen played a rotational role on defense in 2024 and ’25 for Denver. Caliendo, meanwhile, totaled 42 appearances and seven starts across three years in Kansas City. Both players are now on course to reach free agency next week unless they elect to re-sign with their respective teams in the immediate future.
Minor NFL Transactions: 3/7/26
Saturday’s lone minor move in the NFL:
Kansas City Chiefs
- Re-signed: LS James Winchester
Winchester has been in place with Kansas City since 2015, and his career will stretch into at least a 12th campaign. He has agreed to a one-year deal for the offseason year in a row. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports the pact is worth $1.75MM and is fully guaranteed. That ensures Winchester, who will turn 36 this summer and has yet to miss a game in his career, will remain the league’s highest-paid long snapper.
Vikings Work Out Several Restructures
Until recently, the Vikings were on track to be well over the 2026 salary cap. That has produced a number of cost-shedding moves over the course of this week, including several restructures. 
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T.J. Hockenson has agreed to a contract adjustment, Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network report. This move will free up roughly $5MM in cap space. Prior to the restructure, Hockenson was due to carry a cap charge of $21.3MM in 2026, the highest in the league among tight ends.
The two-time Pro Bowler has struggled to regain his previous form since suffering a major knee injury in 2023. As a result, Hockenson’s cap figure would have been a sore spot had it remained intact. Instead, he will look to rebound in 2026. Hockenson was originally under contract through 2027, but Pelissero notes the final year of his deal has been removed through this arrangement. He is now on course for free agency next spring.
Minnesota has also worked out simple restructures in the case of wideout Justin Jefferson and left tackle Christian Darrisaw, per Pelissero. That process consists of converting base salaries into signing bonus to create immediate cap space. Over $27MM in breathing space for 2026 has been generated by those moves. Given their ages and importance to Minnesota’s offense, Jefferson and Darrisaw loomed as obvious candidates for restructures. Their respective deals run through 2028 and ’29, leaving plenty of time for future adjustments if needed.
Cornerback Byron Murphy‘s deal has been restructured as well, as detailed by Ben Goessling of the Minnesota Star Tribune. Roughly $11MM in savings have been generated in his case as a result. Murphy remained in place with the Vikings on a three-year, $54MM pact last offseason. His cap charge is now on track to spike in 2027, but there is no danger of a release taking place before then.
A number of veterans will not be in place for the Vikings once the 2026 season begins. Defensive linemen Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen as well as running back Aaron Jones will soon become free agents upon being released, while center Ryan Kelly has retired. The restructures finalized in recent days are enough for Minnesota to attain cap compliance in time for the start of the new league year, per Over the Cap.
Chargers Re-Sign Khalil Mack
Khalil Mack will not test free agency ahead of the 2026 season. He will instead remain in place with the Chargers for next year. 
Mack has agreed to a one-year deal with Los Angeles, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Bolts will retain at least one of their two high-profile edge rushers as a result of this news. Mack has been in place with the team since 2022. This latest re-signing is now official, per a team announcement.
Retirement was once again a talking point at the end of this past season. It was reported earlier this month, however, that Mack planned on playing in 2026. That will indeed be the case. A re-signing was mentioned as a likely scenario in this case, so today’s news comes as little surprise.
During each of his first three Chargers seasons, Mack earned a Pro Bowl nod (bringing his career total to nine). He set a new career high in sacks with 17 in 2023, and upon arrival new general manager Joe Hortiz made it a priority to keep him in the fold. Mack played on a one-year, $19MM pact in 2024, and he did the same on a deal worth $1MM less the following season. Both of those contracts were fully guaranteed.
Team and player have worked out the same arrangement this time around. This is once again a fully guaranteed accord valued at $18MM, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Los Angeles will have Mack in the fold as a key figure in the pass rush department while Tuli Tuipulotu plays out the final year of his rookie contract. The latter earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2025 and if/when an extension is signed in his case, it will bring about a major raise.
Mack was limited to 12 games this past year, but he has largely remained durable during his Chargers tenure. With 11.5 sacks since 2024, expectations will remain high for at least steady production along the edge in this case. The former Defensive Player of the Year has racked up 113 career sacks, good for 28th all time. Only six active players have more, and a move into the top 25 will be within reach.
Attention will now turn to the matter of fellow Chargers edge rusher Odafe Oweh. He is currently one of the top pending free agents among pass rushers, and a first career trip to the open market looms. Hortiz has expressed a desire to retain not only Mack but Oweh as well. It will be interesting to see if he manages to do so, something which could be feasible given the Chargers’ healthy cap situation.
Ravens, QB Tyler Huntley Agree To Deal
Tyler Huntley‘s tenure in Baltimore will continue. The pending free agent quarterback has agreed to a new Ravens deal, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. 
This is a two-year pact. Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic notes it has a base value of $5MM. Incentives can push Huntley’s earning potential to $11MM, per both reports. This agreement has now been made official by an announcement from his agent.
Since arriving in the NFL, Huntley has spent most of his career with Baltimore. The former undrafted free agent has made 32 combined regular and postseason appearances; 27 of them have come as a member of the Ravens across two different stints. Huntley saw time with the Browns during the 2024 offseason before retuning to Baltimore. Later that year, he departed the practice squad to sign with the Dolphins and fill in for an injured Tua Tagovailoa.
Huntley once again wound up in Cleveland this past summer, although he did not survive roster cutdowns. That resulted in a Baltimore return via a practice squad deal. The 28-year-old found himself back on a depth chart including Lamar Jackson, but free agent signing Cooper Rush was in place as well. Rush received the first opportunity to replace an injured Jackson early in the 2025 season, but Baltimore’s offense struggled mightily with him at the helm.
Huntley eventually took over, and he handled starting duties in Weeks 8 and 17. Baltimore won both of those games, and over the course of the season Huntley set new career highs in completion percentage (77.6%), yards per attempt (6.4) and passer rating (103.1). Those figures came about in large part due to a small sample size, of course, but they helped raise the Utah’s product’s value ahead of a free agent period lacking in high-end quarterback options.
Huntley could have tested the market next week. Instead, he has agreed to a deal which will extend his current Ravens tenure. Rush is on the books for 2026 as things stand, but this news points even further in the direction of a release in his case. That would leave Jackson – whose pending extension remains a key cost-saving move yet to be finalized – and Huntley atop the QB depth chart moving forward.
This agreement marks a raise from the $1.17MM Huntley made in 2025. Baltimore has other key financial decisions to make for a number of reasons, not the least of which being creating the cap space needed to finalize the Maxx Crosby trade. With plenty more work to be done, the Ravens have at least settled their quarterback setup ahead of the new league year.
49ers To Re-Sign K Eddy Pineiro
When the 49ers were desperate to find some consistent kicking last year, they took a flyer on Eddy Pineiro and the former Panthers kicker delivered with a huge season. As a result, San Francisco has moved to secure him on a long-term basis, and according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the two sides have come to an agreement on a four-year, $17MM deal. The deal is said to include $10MM in guaranteed money. 
Pineiro actually started off as a soccer player growing up in Miami and signed a scholarship offer to play at FAU before running into some academic issues. He opted to play soccer at ASA College, a small juco in the area, and, at the behest of his father, eventually made his way out to Alabama for a placekicking combine with the football program. After impressing Nick Saban and earning a scholarship offer, Pineiro committed to the Crimson Tide before later decommitting and opting to stay in state with the Gators.
After going undrafted in 2018, Pineiro signed with the Raiders as an undrafted free agent but spent his entire rookie season on injured reserve. Over the following offseason, Chicago traded for the second-year kicker, expecting him to compete to replace Cody Parkey after the Bears’ infamous “Double Doink” playoff exit. Pineiro was the winner of the kicking competition and made his NFL debut kicking the whole season with Chicago, going 23-of-28 on field goals and 27-of-29 on extra point attempts.
A groin injury put Pineiro on IR again for the entire 2020 season, and he spent 2021 bouncing around. He spent bits of the season with the Colts, Commanders (then the Football Team), and Jets but only appeared in games with New York, making 8-of-8 field goal attempts and 9-0f-10 extra points. In 2022, he landed with the Panthers after an injury to Zane Gonzalez. This began a three-year stint in Carolina, seeing him play in all but two games for the Panthers over that time. Pineiro really seemed to establish himself as a franchise kicker, for his new team. At some point in his third year in Carolina, Pineiro edged into the all-time lead for career field goal percentage in NFL history. Though the record quickly slipped from his grasp, he’s been back and forth with a few active kickers ever since then.
After the Panthers neglected to re-sign Pineiro to a fourth one-year deal with the team, he signed a last-second contract with the 49ers a week into the 2025 NFL season following the team’s dismissal of former third-round pick Jake Moody. Pineiro had his choice of a couple options after trying out for the Bills and getting interest from the Falcons, but it was San Francisco that won out. Pineiro went on to win the hearts of the 49er faithful, along with the nickname “Eddy Dinero,” and after the season came to an end, securing his future apparently became a priority for the team.
All three members of the 49ers kicking battery were on expiring contracts in 2025. San Francisco re-signed veteran long snapper Jon Weeks to an extension at the start of February and have now secured Pineiro for the foreseeable future. In order to bring the whole crew back in 2026, all that remains is for the 49ers to ink veteran punter Thomas Morstead to a new deal for next season, as well.
Although Pineiro remains in the all-time most accurate kicker race (he currently sits at second, behind Cameron Dicker, and remains in active competition with Harrison Butker, Brandon Aubrey, and Chris Boswell, who round out the top five active kickers), his new contract only puts him as the 14th-highest paid kicker in the NFL in regard to annual average value ($4.25MM per year). His reported guarantee-total of $10MM is eighth-highest for a kicker contract in the NFL.
Rams Announce Retirement Of CB Darious Williams
The Rams made a major addition to their secondary by trading for Trent McDuffie this week. The unit has now suffered a loss, albeit a less impactful one, with the retirement of veteran cornerback Darious Williams.
Williams, who is about to turn 33, was entering the last year of his contract and was seen as a possible cap casualty with $7.5MM in potential savings. Instead, he will hang up his cleats after 104 games played, 69 starts and a championship ring from Super Bowl LVI in 2022. That is a strong career for an undrafted free agent, especially one who started playing college ball at a Division III school.
In fact, Williams is the only player from Marietta College to play in the NFL. He spent his freshman year with the Pioneers and transferred to UAB, where he made the team as a walk-on in 2014. He remained at the school even after the football program briefly shut down, per Greg Beachum of the Associated Press, and went on to start 18 games across the 2016 and 2017 seasons, earning a first-team All-Conference USA nod in the second.
The Ravens signed Williams as an undrafted rookie in 2018 and he made the 53-man roster with Jimmy Smith serving a suspension. He appeared in three games on special teams and was waived when Smith was eligible to return. Baltimore wanted to retain Williams, according to Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic, but the Rams swooped in and claimed him instead.
Williams only appeared in one game during his first year in Los Angeles, but he carved out a rotational role on defense and a core role on special teams. He stepped into a starting job in 2020 and was retained in 2021 on a restricted free agent tag.
Another year as a starter earned Williams a three-year, $30MM deal from the Jaguars in free agency in 2022. He started 28 games over the next two seasons and was released with one year remaining on his contract. He then returned to Los Angeles on a three-year, $22.5MM deal, of which he earned $15MM.
With McDuffie already acquired, the Rams will not need to seek a direct replacement for Williams, though they could still look to upgrade their secondary.
Williams will retire with just over $43MM in career earnings and, according to Nate Atkins of The Athletic, will now move into a new role as a father.
Packers Trade DT Colby Wooden For Colts LB Zaire Franklin
The Packers and Colts continue a busy weekend ahead of free agency as the two teams have reportedly come to an agreement to trade Green Bay defensive tackle Colby Wooden for Indianapolis linebacker Zaire Franklin, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. No picks were needed to facilitate what is simply a player for player deal that results in both teams filling a position of need. 
The motivation for the Packers is clear here. Given that off-ball linebackers are grouped into the same fifth-year option calculation as outside linebackers, first-round linebackers hardly ever see their fifth-year options picked up. This was the case with Packers’ 2022 first-round pick Quay Walker, who is bound for free agency after four years in Green Bay. The Packers evaluated well when they landed linebacker Edgerrin Cooper in the second round two years ago, but in a base 3-4 defense, they need a second solid starter at inside backer.
The Packers did not intend to let Walker go quietly. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the team made several runs in an attempt to re-sign him before free agency. The acquisition of Franklin all but guarantees that Walker is bound for the open market, though, and he’s expected to make a bit of a splash there whenever he does.
Franklin was a late bloomer for the Colts, joining the team as a seventh-round pick out of Syracuse in 2018 and not establishing himself as a full-time starter until his fifth year with the team. In his first three years in Indy, Franklin spent most of his time on special teams, though he did rotate in on defense occasionally and fill in as a spot starter. Despite his humble contributions to the stat sheet, Franklin made his presence felt in the building. An organizational favorite, he was named a team captain in his third year with the team. His reputation throughout the building in those first three years likely made him stand out in the mind of then-defensive backs coach Jonathan Gannon. Now Green Bay’s new defensive coordinator, Gannon may have had a preference on who would replace Walker.
In 2021, Franklin started to see a bit more playing time while still playing second fiddle to All-Pro Shaquille Leonard and Bobby Okereke. By 2022, though, Leonard was extremely limited from offseason back surgery, and Franklin got his first opportunity to work as a full-time starter in the NFL. He made that opportunity count as he led the team in total tackles (167) and tackles for loss (12, career high).
After finishing fourth in the NFL in total tackles in his first year as a starter, Franklin finished second in league in 2023 with 179 tackles (a career high) and finally led the league in 2024 with 173. His efforts as the league-leading tackler landed him second-team All-Pro honors as he supplemented the eye-popping stat with 11 tackles for loss, a career-high 3.5 sacks, two interceptions, six passes defensed, and five forced fumbles. His numbers dropped off a bit in 2025, but even in a down statistical year, Franklin led the team in total tackles (125), adding seven tackles for loss, two sacks, and five passes defensed.
Even before he got his opportunity as a full-time starter, the Colts showed their faith in Franklin by re-signing him on a three-year, $12MM contract to keep him from free agency after his rookie contract expired. After seeing Franklin in his role as a starter for two years, the team avoided letting him play on a contract year, agreeing to extend him on a three-year, $31.26MM deal. That extended deal still has two years remaining on it. With a $6.24MM base salary and a per game active roster bonus that could total $765K for the season, he represents a $7MM cap hit for his new team in 2026. That $7MM will come off the books in Indianapolis as the team looks to create some cap space with intentions to try and hold on to pending free agents Daniel Jones and Alec Pierce, but they’ll need to add back to the linebacking corps at some point after losing Franklin.
Wooden has also been a bit of a late bloomer as he enters the final year of his rookie contract. A fourth-round pick out of Auburn in 2023, Wooden played a rotational role in his first two years with the team, appearing in 30 games over that time and not logging his first start until Week 12 of his sophomore campaign. In limited time, he was still able to make a decent impact, totaling 37 tackles, three tackles for loss, four quarterback hits, a half sack, and two batted passes. He became a full-time starter of Year 3 in Green Bay, only coming off the bench in the team’s regular season finale.
With veteran defensive tackle Neville Gallimore set to become a free agent, Wooden comes in to add some depth and starting experience to the line. USA Today’s Ryan Wood notes that Wooden was Green Bay’s best run defender on the interior line, but that doesn’t speak to much as Pro Football Focus (subscription required) still graded Wooden’s run defense quite a bit below average. Still, Wooden’s first season as a starter was generally perceived as solid, and he’s sure to continue improving as he gets more game time under his belt.
In Green Bay, Wooden’s departure means a lost starter along the defensive line, and that could be exacerbated as the team still doesn’t appear to be in a great position with outside linebacker Rashan Gary. Labeled a likely cut candidate, it seemed as though Gary’s time with the Packers had run out with a viral social media post on Gary’s account yesterday, but claims of an Instagram hack disputed the release of the veteran defender. It’s still believed, though, that Gary could be traded or released, per Rapoport. If that does happen, the Packers could be searching for pass rushing help on both the edge and the interior line.
In the end, each team scratches the other’s back a bit in this deal. The Colts are giving the Packers a capable, former All-Pro starter to replace what they’re losing at inside linebacker, and the Packers are taking some of the salary cap burden off the Colts shoulders and supplying them with some depth and starting experience along the defensive line. Both teams are far from being done making moves, but their opening action here in the leadup to free agency gives us a glimpse at their overall goals for the offseason.
Bills To Re-Sign C Connor McGovern
Re-signing veteran interior offensive lineman Connor McGovern was a huge priority for the Bills this offseason, and according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the two parties reached an agreement on a new four-year, $52MM contract today to avoid free agency. A report from Ian Rapoport claiming the team was closing in on this four-year pact preempted the final news, but Schefter broke the deal with details, including a guaranteed amount on the new contract of $32MM. 
McGovern came into the NFL as a third-round pick for the Cowboys in 2019. After sitting out his entire rookie season with a torn pectoral muscle, he served as a backup behind an impressive Dallas duo in Zack Martin and Connor Williams. McGovern found eight starts in his first season of play, filling in a couple times when Martin filled in at tackle and getting the rest of his starts as Martin sat with a concussion or a calf injury. In Year 3, he returned to a backup role but stole a few starts as Williams was benched for a short time due to a tendency to commit too many penalties. McGovern earned the starting left guard job in the last year of his rookie contract and, in addition to allowing just two sacks and committing one penalty he continued to show his versatility with some spot starts replacing center Tyler Biadasz.
Off of a strong final year in Dallas, McGovern landed in Buffalo on a three-year, $22.35MM deal as the Bills looked to replace veteran left guard Rodger Saffold. Starting all 17 games, McGovern was part of an offensive unit that allowed the fewest sacks in the NFL in 2023, but individually, McGovern left plenty of room for improvement in the run game. Part of the Bills’ solution for this was a position shift.
Buffalo pursued some cost-cutting moves in 2024 and opted to release veteran center Mitch Morse, shifting McGovern inside to fill the newly vacant role. Starting 16 games at this new position, McGovern looked much more balanced with his pass-pro and run-grading duties. Per Pro Football Focus (subscription required), he graded out as the 10th-best center in the NFL as he earned Pro Bowl honors for the first time in his career. In his second year as a full-time center, McGovern continued to improve, grading out as PFF’s ninth-best center in 2025.
After McGovern’s Pro Bowl campaign, the team began extension discussions with him and fellow interior lineman David Edwards. As those discussions continued, it became clear to that it may end up being one or the other between McGovern and Edwards. McGovern didn’t seem confident that it was going to be him sticking around. Just a few days ago, he told The Athletic’s Tim Graham that the team hadn’t contacted him once and that the feeling in his gut was that his time with the Bills was “over and done.” In the end, though, McGovern got the deal, and the consensus opinion remains that Edwards will be bound for free agency, likely to land a bit more money than his presumed former linemate.
In what looks to be a decent crop of free agent centers this offseason, McGovern was largely seen as the No. 2 option. Ravens center Tyler Linderbaum has not reached a new deal with the team that drafted him 25th overall in 2022, despite Baltimore’s best attempts. Linderbaum is expected to set a new market at the position with some reports claiming an aim of $25MM per year, a jump of $7MM from the reigning highest-paid center Creed Humphrey‘s $18MM annual average value. Seeing where the market could’ve ended up, the Bills were smart to lock McGovern in at the time and rate that they did.
With McGovern off the market, all eyes will be on Linderbaum now. There’s a bit of a dropoff in quality after Linderbaum as Panthers center Cade Mays, Browns center Ethan Pocic, and Broncos center Lloyd Cushenberry round out the pack of free agent options at the position. The Ravens had kept an eye on McGovern in case they couldn’t hold on to Linderbaum, but McGovern cashes in here with Buffalo as the NFL’s third-highest paid center, and the Bills secure a key piece of the interior of an offensive line that has helped Buffalo see the 2024 MVP and the 2025 leader in rushing yards.