The second week of coaching camps for all 32 NFL groups is upon the soccer world. The primary week is for shaking off the summer time rust, however Week 2 usually entails the notable ramp up of padded, contact practices happening.
That is the place essential progress and chemistry could be constructed, which is why various NFL teams took main steps to finish holdouts in addition to prolong key gamers on Sunday. Along with main contracts being inked, a couple of quarterback battles across the league are beginning to shift. With that in thoughts, let’s study a number of the most crucial happenings from coaching camps in our Sunday version of coaching camp takeaways.
Washington Commanders Professional Bowl huge receiver Terry McLaurin’s holdout from coaching camp is now over. McLaurin opted to take a yoga class away from the staff facility Wednesday as a substitute of taking part in observe whereas vying for a brand new contract, however on Sunday he did report back to camp, even and not using a new deal.
The 29-year-old, who turns 30 on Sept. 15, seized the Commanders’ single-season document for receiving touchdowns with 13 in 2024. That ranked because the second-most within the NFL behind triple crown winner Ja’Marr Chase’s 17. McLaurin is about to enter the ultimate season of a three-year, $68.4 million extension, so he is on the lookout for safety following Washington’s run to the NFC Championship in 2024. He spent the primary 5 years of his profession with a revolving door at quarterback, and now he is aiming to be locked in with reigning Rookie of the 12 months Jayden Daniels for the foreseeable future.
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“I am actually pumped that he is right here, man,” Commanders coach Dan Quinn said. “He is such an superior competitor. We had an opportunity to spend a while collectively [Saturday]. It was nice to see him. … On the enterprise aspect, [GM Adam Peters] and the fellows are nonetheless working laborious with Terry and his reps. Whereas on PUP, it is identical to we do with different guys: work with the trainers to get again as quickly as he can.”
McLaurin’s hold-in begins now.
“It feels good to be round my teammates and across the followers,” McLaurin stated via ESPN. “I am unable to beat that in any respect. They confirmed me plenty of love and assist. You lose sight of some issues when the enterprise will get concerned, however I by no means overlooked the way in which they supported me. It is enterprise, however it has nothing to do with them.”
At each cease of Jim Harbaugh’s teaching profession, he has prioritized physicality and operating the soccer. That is why it isn’t stunning that Harbaugh’s Los Angeles Chargers made two-time Professional Bowl left sort out Rashawn Slater the highest-paid offensive lineman in football. Slater agreed to phrases on a four-year, $114 million contract extension with $92 million assured. His new $28.5 million common per yr wage tops Tampa Bay Buccaneers four-time Professional Bowl left sort out Tristan Wirfs‘ $28.1 million APY on his five-year, $140.6 million deal.
Professional Soccer Focus graded the 26-year-old as its second-highest graded offensive sort out in 2024, and now Slater will likely be defending Justin Herbert’s blindside at a excessive stage for the foreseeable future. This deal will definitely be sufficient to finish the left sort out’s absence at coaching camp.
The Dallas Cowboys are seemingly open for enterprise
The Dallas Cowboys bucked a longstanding trend of waiting till the final doable second to increase a participant they worth once they re-signed tight finish Jake Ferguson on Sunday. Dallas inked their 2022 fourth-round decide to a four-year, $52 million with $30 million in complete ensures.
“Any time you get a man completed, which there’s various guys we’re working to get completed, you are excited for him [Ferguson],” Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer said on Sunday.
All-Professional edge rusher Micah Parsons is the large one, however left guard Tyler Smith, cornerback DaRon Bland, kicker Brandon Aubrey and huge receiver George Pickens are additionally coming into contract years in 2025. Regardless of Parsons taking the initiative to kick off contract talks in January, he stays unsigned as a result of he and the entrance workplace stay at odds over his worth.
“We wish to pay Micah, too. He has to wish to be paid,” Cowboys COO Stephen Jones stated Sunday, via The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The Cowboys feeling like they’ve leverage with Parsons and his calls for to be paid prime of the market cash are intriguing. Parsons, 26, is the primary participant to register 12 or extra sacks in every of his first 4 seasons since sacks turned tracked as a person statistic in 1982. Parsons’ 330 quarterback pressures since coming into the NFL in 2021 are tied for essentially the most within the league with Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders, in line with TruMedia.
The Cleveland Browns’ four-man quarterback competitors between 40-year-old Joe Flacco, former first-round decide journeyman Kenny Pickett, third-round decide Dillon Gabriel and fifth-round decide Shedeur Sanders received shaken up on Sunday.
Pickett, who Browns quarterbacks coach Invoice Musgrave labeled “wonderful” by means of the primary two coaching camp practices, suffered a hamstring damage on Saturday and will likely be re-evaluated subsequent week, per ESPN. Now, there’s way more alternative for Gabriel and Sanders to issue into Cleveland’s quarterback battle with Flacco, the presumed frontrunner. It made headlines on Friday that Sanders had yet to receive any snaps with the first-team offense in camp, however that might now change with Pickett sidelined.
New York Giants first-round rookies locked in
New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, the twenty fifth decide within the 2025 Draft, struggled out of the gate at training camp. Nevertheless, according to The Athletic, Dart turned it round on Sunday in a significant method. He hit on his first 10 throws and accomplished 11 of his 13 passes on the day. That included a giant acquire to undrafted rookie Beaux Collins within the video footage beneath.
Abdul Carter, the third decide, seems as marketed early on. Carter, No. 51, completely cooked beginning proper sort out Jermaine Eluemunor a number of occasions, together with with the spin transfer captured beneath. Between Carter, Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux coming off the sting and defensive sort out Dexter Lawrence, the Giants might have among the best defensive traces in soccer in 2025.