Bills
Bills’ GM Brandon Beane appeared on SiriusXM NFL Radio and shared his hopes that stadiums will be full in 2020 and increase the salary cap numbers in the following years.
“This next year is still an unknown,” Beane said, via Pro Football Talk. “There are some numbers if stadiums are full, but if they’re not full, the cap this year is 182 [million dollars]. Last year it was 198, so that was a huge drop. We’re kind of projecting 195 to 200 [for the 2022 salary cap]. I’m hoping closer to 200, just to be able to fit as many guys as we can. The cap was supposed to be around 220 by now. If we don’t get an extension for either one before next year we have to hold $36 million just to pay for these two guys, and there’s no way to restructure that deal without doing an extension. . . . Hopefully it will be full stadiums this year which will help us slide them in the budget and not have to get too creative with our cap.”
Jets
Jets QB Zach Wilson explained the differences he noticed so far between the NFL and College Football.
“A lot of thinking. Way more thinking than you typically want to do in football, but that’s a Day 1 kind of thing,” Wilson said via NFL Media’s Adam Maya. “I really think it just comes down to the scheme part of it, how much more detailed and complicated, to a point. And I think that’s what makes it so special.”
“There’s so many small things that change that momentum and change a game. That’s what separates everybody in this league. The best and the worst quarterbacks, whoever it is, it’s such a small difference between those, and it really shows you the littlest details are what make the biggest difference.”
It’s special for Wilson given he had to compete for his starting job at BYU as recently as a year ago but that experience appears to have given him some perspective on how to approach his rookie season.
“Obviously, that’s important, but that’s not my focus right now,” he said. “My focus is to learn the offense, keep getting better every single day, do what I can with the guys around me. And I think the rest takes care of itself. In this position, the coaches want to play the best player, and that position’s got to be earned. I got to go in there and I got to make sure I do what I’m supposed to do. And that will take care of itself.”
Patriots
- According to Jeff Howe of The Athletic, the Cardinals and Saints had a deal in place that would have allowed New Orleans to jump ahead in the draft and select Alabama QB Mac Jones if the Patriots passed on him at pick No. 15. The Patriots reportedly would have taken LB Zaven Collins if they did not select Jones with the pick.
- Per ESPN’s Mike Reiss, one member of the team estimates about 50 players have been in attendance for New England at OTAs so far.
- From a size perspective, Patriots fourth-round RB Rhamondre Stevenson has obvious parallels to former RB LeGarrette Blount. But national scout Matt Groh highlighted Stevenson has “soft hands” and could contribute as a receiver as well.
- Groh also pointed out sixth-round S Joshuah Bledsoe was regularly asked at Missouri to cover top targets for opposing teams in the SEC, including several players who were taken in the first round this year: “They asked this guy to cover everybody. That’s great in us trying to make our evaluation on a player to see him against the guys that are going to be in the NFL.”
- According to Brody Miller of The Athletic, Patriots’ HC Bill Belichick had his eye on Bengals’ DT Tyler Shelvin while scouting other LSU players back in 2019, saying: “I want No. 72. You make sure No. 72 is on our team.”
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