Biggest questions of the 2026 NFL offseason
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The next season effectively begins the moment the previous season ends, and with that new season comes a whole new set of questions. Such as, what happens on the quarterback carousel? Which big-name players might get traded? How will certain teams in the news—hello, Bengals, Cowboys and Eagles—approach the offseason? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman highlight their biggest questions for the NFL offseason on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:47 The quarterback carousel
27:08 Trade candidates
42:17 What's gonna happen with the Eagles
50:52 Are people gonna lose their minds over Drake Maye?
56:42 Can the Cowboys make the most of their offense?
1:04:31 What's the Bengals pivot?
1:07:35 What's next for Nnamdi Madubuike
1:10:48 How will the teams with multiple first-round picks wield their influence
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.5 | Kind of our last show of the 2025-20206 NFL season. |
| 0:12.4 | We're doing the biggest questions that we have left heading into this offseason. |
| 0:16.6 | We talked about the quarterback carousel. |
| 0:18.5 | We talked about some of the veteran trades that might happen. |
| 0:21.7 | We talked about a couple teams and their potential strategies heading into this offseason, |
| 0:25.7 | whether that's the Cowboys, the Bengals, the Eagles. |
| 0:28.9 | So dug into a lot of this, just the stuff we have at front of mind as the offseason gets kicked off with me, |
| 0:35.3 | Derek Klesson, and Dave Hellman. |
| 0:36.7 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 0:43.4 | We do a set of shows every year on this podcast. Some of them are a little bit more |
| 0:48.9 | exciting than others. Some of them, I think, people look forward to. But we've done this show |
| 0:54.1 | each of the last like three seasons. The end of Super Bowl week, the Friday after the Super Bowl, we always spend a little bit of time asking some of the biggest questions that are looming over the NFL off season, which we are currently in and currently and starts in earnest next week. And that is what we are going to do today. |
| 1:11.8 | We have about, I don't know, 10, 12 questions that are at front of mind here as we dig into the offseason. |
| 1:18.7 | It was fun to see what you guys came back with. |
| 1:21.3 | Like, obviously there are some big ones that are around quarterbacks and how quarterbacks are going to move. |
| 1:26.9 | And then Dave is just picking out like defensive tackles from contenders that he's excited |
| 1:31.2 | about potentially watching next year. |
| 1:34.7 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:36.4 | I'm glad you, I'm glad you keyed on that one specifically because I was pretty proud of it. |
| 1:41.2 | Derek also has some, just some wonderful ones that are the most Derek thing possible. |
| 1:44.8 | I always love this when I give you guys just like a very generic prompts where it's like |
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