The sneaky offseason additions shaping the 2026 NFL season
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
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Sure, Dexter Lawrence got traded to the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, Kenneth Walker III signed with the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay, Mike Evans left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the San Francisco 49ers. Who the hell cares?! We’re getting into the sneaky additions that will shape the upcoming NFL season on today’s episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. On yesterday's show, we chatted about |
| 0:04.9 | some of the position groups that have been totally remade this offseason, like big, loud |
| 0:09.2 | changes to certain areas of these rosters. Today, we're talking about the sneaky editions |
| 0:14.6 | that were made on the veteran market this off season and how that might impact some of these |
| 0:19.7 | teams. We didn't lay out. I didn't |
| 0:21.6 | lay out the exact parameters for this when I was asking the guys to come up with a list of names. |
| 0:26.3 | We wanted to focus on guys that were making less than 10 million bucks, aren't big name players, |
| 0:31.8 | aren't superstars you're really thinking that much about. The guys that are on some of these |
| 0:35.8 | smaller contracts, but for one reason |
| 0:37.6 | or another, they are going to be important players for teams this year and the way that |
| 0:42.5 | those teams' plans are going to come together. |
| 0:44.3 | So really enjoyed digging into about a dozen sneaky additions this offseason with Derek |
| 0:50.2 | and Dave. |
| 0:50.7 | Let's get to that list right now. |
| 1:02.4 | Thank you. Derek and Dave, let's get to that list right now. We spent some time yesterday talking about the position groups that have been totally |
| 1:06.3 | overhauled. |
| 1:07.1 | Like, some of those are kind of sneaky. |
| 1:09.4 | But when you're adding three new guys, it's kind of |
| 1:11.6 | hard to hide. Like, we've seen what those changes look like. Today, we wanted to dig a little |
| 1:17.4 | bit deeper and talk about a handful of players that when we go through the whole wave of free agency |
| 1:23.4 | and we're doing those live shows, there are going to be some one-year, $5 million |
| 1:27.8 | deals that we just don't talk about very much. |
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