Month: July 2025

NY Giants head coach Brian Daboll made it clear on the first day of training camp that veteran Russell Wilson is QB1 for the 2025 season.

Daboll has said that Wilson was the team’s starting quarterback throughout the offseason program and there’s been no change as of the start of training camp. When specifically asked if Jameis Winston and first-round pick Jaxson Dart (out of Ole Miss) are competing for the No. 1 job, Daboll told reporters (via ESPN): “guys are going to compete and the roster will be set when the roster’s set. These guys will be out here competing but Russ is our starter.”  The Giants also still have Tommy DeVito on roster.

General Manager Joe Schoen said that Dart “has a long way to go” as he enters his first NFL training camp, but he could make enough progress to move up the ladder before the year is out: “We’ve got a really good offensive staff and when they feel he’s ready, the time’s right or the circumstance is right, then we’ll have those conversations.”

Wilson made his first start in Week 7 last season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 10-time Pro Bowler won six of his first seven starts in Pittsburgh, but then lost his next five starts while averaging under 194 passing yards per game, including the wild-card loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

During his 10 years with the Seattle Seahawks, Wilson went 104-53-1; over the last three seasons, the veteran QB has gone 17-24 with the Denver Broncos and Steelers.

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Per NFL.com, Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Bayron Matos suffered an undisclosed injury at the end of Wednesday’s training camp practice in Miami Gardens, Fla., and was airlifted to a medical center via helicopter.

The injury happened in the final minutes of Day 1 of the Dolphins’ training camp, with sources saying that Matos, 24, was involved in a collision with a teammate and suffered loss of feeling in his right side. Hal Habib of the Palm Beach Post reported that it wasn’t entirely clear exactly how Matos was injured, but said that the offensive tackle was “immobilized and strapped to a board before being carted off the practice field by first responders.” Several of Matos’ teammates grouped around him while medical personnel tended to him.

A CT scan and MRI were later conducted, with Matos, a second-year offensive tackle, listed in stable condition, per the Dolphins. No specific timetable for return was provided.

Matos, born in Los Mina, Santo Domingo, was a two-sport athlete in basketball and baseball in his youth and only started playing football in 2022. Hewent undrafted in 2024 but signed with the Dolphins as a free agent through the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program — an initiative that gives athletes from countries outside the U.S. a chance to play in the NFL. He spent time on Miami’s practice squad over the past year before signing a reserve/future contract in January. He has not yet played in an NFL game.

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Cincinnati Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that he will not report to training camp with the rest of the team’s veterans, amid ongoing contract negotiations.

Hendrickson said in May he will not suit up under his current deal, which will pay him a $15.8 million base salary in 2025. The Bengals came to the table with several offers, but nothing materialized. Bengals owner Mike Brown said Monday: “It has been a long negotiation. Trey Hendrickson is a fine player, he’s a good guy, we want him here. Dealing with him is sometimes not so easy and that’s alright he’s got the right to argue his case. We’ll try to make sense of it from our perspective and we’ll see. I’m not persuaded that it isn’t going to get done, as far as I’m concerned, the sooner the better.”

The news that Hendrickson was skipping training camp came as news to Bengals director of player personnel Duke Tobin, who said the team expected him to be present: “He’s an important part of our team. He’s under contract and we expect all our guys under contract to be here. He’s a guy who has been very valuable. He has earned a raise and extension. We’ll see if we can come together on something.”

Hendrickson, who joined the Bengals in 2021, registered a league-best 17.5 sacks last season, equaling his 2023 numbers as one of the NFL’s top edge rushers. He also accumulated 46 combined tackles, including 33 solo tackles, which were career-bests in both categories.

The franchise is also in the middle of a contract dispute with first-round pick Shemar Stewart, the NFL’s only unsigned first-rounder.  Stewart, also a DE, wants a fully-guaranteed deal without any behavioral stipulations and is asking that his contract language mirror the team’s last first-round picks.

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Longtime NFL tight end Jimmy Graham officially announce his retirement on Tuesday, stating that he plans to retire as a New Orleans Saint, where he spent six of his 13 NFL seasons.

The longtime tight end told John DeShazier (via the Saints’ website) that he will retire later this year. “What a journey,” Graham wrote on X to confirm the retirement news, along with black and yellow hearts and a praying hands emoji.

Graham, 38, was a third-round draft pick out of Miami in 2010, and has played with the Saints, Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears over 13 seasons. After sitting out the 2022 season, Graham returned to New Orleans on a one-year deal in 2023 where he played in 13 games and scored four times. He had previously played in New Orleans to start out his career from 2010-14.

A five-time Pro Bowler and first-team All-Pro in 2013, Graham recorded two 1,000-plus yard receiving seasons and led the NFL in receiving touchdowns in 2013 with 16. He made 719 receptions, recorded 8,545 receiving yards and 89 touchdowns in his career. Graham will finish his career with 134 starts in 197 games played — he caught 719 passes for 8,545 yards and 89 touchdowns, and notched two 1,000-plus receiving yard seasons in 2011 and ’13 with the Saints. His 1,310 receiving yards in ’11 made him the first Saints tight end to finish with over 1,000 yards in a season, and he sits in seventh all-time for the most receiving yards by a tight end in a single season in NFL history.

Graham recently helped set a record as part of a team of Americans who participated in the ‘Arctic Challenge’ —  a journey across the Arctic Ocean that saw Graham and three other team members row over 584 nautical miles in 10 days. According to the Ocean Rowing Society, the team finished in a world record time of 10 days and 5 hours. That previous world record for a four-person team was 15 days, 5 hours and 32 minutes, set by Ocean Revival in 2023. When he began training for the Arctic Challenge in 2024, Graham wasn’t sure if he was retired and added if he did play again it would only be with the Saints.

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