Free agency day two: Perhaps you can go home again
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
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Summary
Day two of free agency got off to a bit of a slow start, and then the spigot opened up with a firehose attached. Geno Smith is a Jet again. The Patriots landed a receiver in Romeo Doubs. The Texans beefed up along the offensive line with Braden Smith. Add that to what happened on Monday evening—Devin Lloyd to the Panthers, Travis Kelce's return to the Chiefs, Quay Walker and Nakobe Dean to the Raiders, Rashid Shaheed sticking with the Seahawks—and we've got a stew going. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.2 | Day two of the NFL free agency period. |
| 0:09.8 | That's what we're digging into today. |
| 0:11.3 | Not quite as fast and furious as day one, |
| 0:14.4 | not as many signings to comb through. |
| 0:16.5 | But we had a couple big news items right before we started recording. |
| 0:19.4 | Gino Smith traded to the Jets. |
| 0:21.6 | We have Romeo Dobbs headed to the Patriots. There were some big ones that happened overnight that |
| 0:26.1 | we did not get a chance to hit yesterday. Elijah Vera Tucker heading to New England. We have |
| 0:30.1 | Devin Lloyd going to the Panthers. So we dug into all of those moves, plus some of the smaller ones |
| 0:35.1 | that have happened over the last 24 hours with me, Derek, |
| 0:39.3 | and Dave Hellman. |
| 0:40.5 | So let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 0:48.4 | We are back breaking down the second day of the NFL free agency period. |
| 0:53.5 | I actually don't know what to call it, |
| 0:54.7 | the tampering period. It's the same day of tampering period, but like, no, the bullets are flying. |
| 0:58.8 | We know what's actually going on right now. Obviously not the same sort of back and forth |
| 1:04.1 | affair that we saw yesterday, not as many high profile names coming off the board. Most of the |
| 1:08.6 | work, the big work was done yesterday. But still plenty to dig into today. We had a couple of things that happened overnight that were big time signings that we did not get to on yesterday's show. We wrapped at about 5.30 p.m. Eastern. And then Dave, right before we started recording, had a couple of things come across the board to make things a little bit more exciting for us as we got going today. What if we have the ear of the league? |
| 1:29.2 | Like, what if decision makers are like, all right, let's get on the phone. I'm sure that's true. Let's get on the phone so the Tafts guys have something to talk about. It felt like that. So I left the house at 1 p.m. Central to get here. and as I was like getting my keys and getting ready to go out the door I was like |
| 1:43.9 | we talking about Kaimi Fairbairn today like what what has happened that is where And as I was like getting my keys and getting ready to go out the door, I was like, |
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