NFL Player News
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Dallas Goedert TE | PHI
Eagles' Dallas Goedert: Agrees to reworked contract
Goedert and the Eagles are in agreement on a reworked contract that will keep him with the team for 2025, Zach Berman of The Athletic reports.
Offseason trade rumors never materialized, keeping the 30-year-old with the only NFL team he's known. Goedert averaged between 3.7 and 4.6 catches per game each of the past six regular seasons, reliably putting up solid efficiency stats on 5-to-6 targets per game, with the biggest difference from year to year being his number of absences. He's missed multiple games in five straight seasons, including a career-high seven last year before bouncing back in the playoffs with a 17-215-1 receiving line in four games. Goedert should continue to provide low-end TE1 fantasy production when healthy, serving as Philadelphia's No. 3 receiving option behind WRs A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.
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Josiah Deguara TE | ARI
Cardinals' Josiah Deguara: Joins Arizona
Deguara signed with the Cardinals on Monday, Zach Gershman of the team's official site reports.
A 2020 third-round pick of the Packers who spent 2024 with the Jaguars, Deguara has 50 career catches for 450 yards and two touchdowns, including three catches for 14 yards a year ago. He has played on over 800 special-teams snaps over the course of his career, and he could earn a role that way on the Cardinals. Arizona's tight end room is led by Trey McBride, who caught 111 passes for 1,146 yards in 2024, and then Tip Reiman and Elijah Higgins.
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Robbie Ouzts RB | SEA
Seahawks' Robbie Ouzts: Being converted to fullback
The Seahawks are planning to convert Ouzts, whom they selected in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, from tight end to fullback, Brady Henderson of ESPN.com reports.
Ouzts played a versatile role during his four years in college at Alabama, and as a tight end he worked primarily as a blocker. That should help the rookie with his conversion to a fullback in the NFL, and Henderson notes that the decision is part of a plan by new OC Klint Kubiak to deploy a more physical run game. Ouzts will likely compete for reps in fullback packages with Brady Russell, who is also making a change from tight end to fullback for the coming campaign.
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Elijah Arroyo TE | SEA
Seahawks' Elijah Arroyo: Past knee issue
Arroyo said Friday that he is no longer dealing with the knee injury that limited him leading up to the NFL Draft, Brady Henderson of ESPN.com reports.
The knee issue prevented Arroyo from running the 40 at either the NFL Combine or his pro day, though Seattle was able to estimate him at 4.52/4.53 based on his GPS speeds. The injury didn't deter the Seahawks from drafting the big tight end out of Miami in the second round (50th overall), however, making him the fifth tight end off the board. Arroyo has a chance to carve out a significant role in the team's offense, especially if he can have a big training camp -- while Noah Fant tallied a respectable 500 receiving yards on 48 catches during the regular season last year, he has only one touchdown reception over the past two campaigns.
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Ross Dwelley TE | DET
49ers' Ross Dwelley: Back to SF on one-year pact
Dwelley signed a one-year contract with the 49ers on Friday.
Dwelley spent his first six NFL seasons in San Francisco before playing for the Falcons in 2024. Back in the Bay Area, the 30-year-old Dwelley will compete for a roster spot with the 49ers in 2025. He has just 17 receiving yards in 29 regular-season appearances over the past two seasons, so Dwelley doesn't project to factor into the passing game much, even if he makes the team.
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Baylor Cupp TE | BAL
Baylor Cupp: Let go by Kansas City
The Chiefs waived Cupp on Wednesday, Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston reports.
The Chiefs inked a pair of undrafted rookie tight ends in Jake Briningstool and Tre Watson and cut both Cupp and veteran Anthony Firkser in the aftermath. Cupp appeared in one regular-season game for the Chiefs last season, failing to secure his only target in the pass game.
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Anthony Firkser TE | DET
Anthony Firkser: Cut by Kansas City
The Chiefs released Firkser on Wednesday, Aaron Wilson of KPRC 2 Houston reports.
Firkser inked a reserve/future deal with the Chiefs after their Super Bowl loss, but he's out of a roster spot following the NFL Draft and Kansas City's signings of undrafted rookies Jake Briningstool and Tre Watson. Firkser, 30, hasn't registered a regular-season catch since securing nine passes for the Falcons in 2022.
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Bernhard Seikovits TE | ARI
Bernhard Seikovits: Let go by Arizona
Seikovits was waived by the Cardinals on Tuesday.
Seikovits signed a reserve/future contract with Arizona in January. The tight end has spent the last four years with the Cardinals' organization after being allocated to the team via the NFL's International Player Pathway Program in 2021, but he's yet to make his NFL debut.
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Jake Briningstool TE | KC
Jake Briningstool: Expected to sign with Kansas City
Briningstool is slated to sign with Kansas City as an undrafted free agent, Pete Grathoff of The Kansas City Star reports.
Briningstool is coming off a senior season at Clemson in which he caught 49 of 76 targets for 530 yards and seven touchdowns over 13 games in 2024. The tight end will look to impress with Kansas City at the team's rookie minicamp and OTAs.
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George Kittle TE | SF
49ers' George Kittle: Gets four-year extension
Kittle agreed to a four-year, $76.4 million extension with the 49ers on Tuesday, Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com reports.
The deal reportedly includes $40 million guaranteed and likely will lower Kittle's 2025 salary-cap hit, which was previously scheduled to come in at $22.09 million. He'll turn 32 years old in October but hasn't shown any signs of slowing down, coming off a 2024 campaign with a five-year high for receptions (78), six-year high for receiving yards (1,106) and the second most touchdowns of his career (eight). Kittle still hasn't reached triple-digit targets since 2019, but he's capable of handling more volume if injuries to teammates necessitate it. He's typically the third tight end taken in early 2025 fantasy drafts, after Brock Bowers and Trey McBride.