The Put up’s Ryan Dunleavy breaks down the AFC East storylines going into coaching camp:
Buffalo Payments
Coach: Sean McDermott (eighth 12 months)
Coaching camp web site: Rochester
Key additions: Curtis Samuel and first-round rookie Keon Coleman might battle for No. 1 WR rights.
Possibly S Mike Edwards and WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling can share a few of the Chiefs’ secrets and techniques as they swap sides within the AFC’s finest rivalry.
QB Mitch Trubisky is again for a second backup stint. DT Austin Johnson will assist the run protection.
Key losses: Tensions with Stefon Diggs lastly bubbled over, and their four-time 1,100-yard receiver was traded to the Texans.
He isn’t the one WR shifting on: Gabe Davis joined the Jaguars.
The Payments additionally broke up their annual-playoff core, slicing C Mitch Morse, S Jordan Poyer and CB Tre’Davious White in a salary-cap purge.
EDGE Leonard Floyd took his 10.5 sacks to the 49ers. S Micah Hyde is unsigned.
Coaching camp storylines to observe: Can the Payments full a go?
QB Josh Allen must construct fast chemistry with an nearly totally new six-receiver set than he has had for the previous 4 years.
Khalil Shakir (39 catches) is the one returning piece from final season.
Can the Payments defend the go with a remade secondary that received’t have the identical time-tested cohesiveness because the final group?
McDermott is out of coordinators accountable and will probably be on the recent seat if this group begins slowly once more.
Miami Dolphins
Coach: Mike McDaniel (third 12 months)
Coaching camp web site: Miami Gardens, Fla.
Key additions: The speed-obsessed Dolphins will see how a lot WR Odell Beckham Jr. has left within the tank.
The identical could be mentioned on protection for fliers taken on S Jordan Poyer and DL Calais Campbell.
At the very least LB Jordyn Brooks, CB Kendall Fuller and C Aaron Brewer are on the appropriate facet of 30. First-round rookie DE Chop Robinson addressed an enormous want.
Key losses: DT Christian Wilkins (Raiders) and RG Robert Hunt (Panthers) cashed in large time in free company.
CB Xavien Howard and EDGE Emmanuel Ogbah had been lower to clear $32.3 million mixed in salary-cap house.
The theme of defensive departures continued with EDGE Andrew Van Ginkel (Vikings), LB Jerome Baker (Seahawks), DT Raekwon Davis (Colts) and S Brandon Jones (Broncos).
OG Conor Williams leaves an enormous gap.
Coaching camp storylines to observe: QB Tua Tagovailoa is “antsy” about getting a contract extension carried out, maybe sensing reluctance for the Dolphins to dish out the market-rate $50 million per 12 months given his damage historical past.
He additionally has slimmed down after final 12 months’s much-hyped bulk-up.
Do the Dolphins have sufficient go rush?
After ending No. 3 final season with 56 sacks, defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and several other key pass-rushers left city.
EDGEs Bradly Chubb (torn ACL) and Jaelan Phillips (torn Achilles) have to regain prime type off of great accidents.
New England Patriots
Coach: Jerod Mayo (first 12 months)
Coaching camp web site: Foxborough, Mass.
Key additions: The Drake Maye Period is right here, even when the first-round rookie begins off on the bench.
QB Jacoby Brissett returns for a second stint. RB Antonio Gibson, WR Ok.J. Osborn, rookie WR Ja’Lynn Polk, and TEs Pharaoh Brown and Austin Hooper are presupposed to bolster one of many NFL’s worst offenses.
RT Chukwuma Okorafor and LB Sione Takitaki spherical out an understated free-agent class.
Key losses: The Mac Jones Period was a bust, so the beginning quarterback was traded to the Jaguars after three seasons.
TE Mike Gesicki and RT Trent Brown will stay teammates — solely with the Bengals.
RB Ezekiel Elliott returned to the Cowboys after one season because the Patriots’ main rusher. CB J.C. Jackson stays unsigned.
All-time nice special-teamer Matthew Slater and WR DeVante Parker retired.
Coaching camp storylines to observe: The Invoice Belichick Period — six Tremendous Bowl wins in 24 years — is over. Will the “Patriots Approach” of little enjoyable and heavy secrecy proceed below his protégé Mayo?
Or is Mayo a breath of recent air?
Can Maye speed up his timeline and steal the Week 1 begin away from Brissett?
Are each quarterbacks doomed regardless, taking part in with journeyman weapons? The Patriots spent large to maintain a younger core intact.
Time for RB Rhamondre Stevenson, RT Mike Onwenu and S Kyle Dugger to take the subsequent step.
New York Jets
Coach: Robert Saleh (fourth 12 months)
Coaching camp web site: Florham Park, N.J.
Key additions: Overhauling the offensive line included signing LT Tyron Smith and LG John Simpson, buying and selling for RT Morgan Moses and drafting OT Olu Fashanu within the first spherical.
EDGE Haason Reddick, and DTs Javon Kinlaw and Leki Fotu are a part of a new-look defensive position.
Mike Williams and rookie Malachi Corley will complement Garrett Wilson within the receiving corps. QB Tyrod Taylor is the brand new insurance coverage plan.
Key losses: Two separate trades with the Broncos despatched QB bust Zach Wilson and versatile DL John Franklin-Myers out west.
EDGE Bryce Huff turned his breakout 2023 into an enormous contract with the Eagles, making Reddick accessible in return.
OG Laken Tomlinson was a cap casualty who joined the Seahawks.
S Jordan Whitehead (Buccaneers) and the Browns-bound duo of DT Quinton Jefferson and special-teamer Justin Hardee left in free company.
Coaching camp storylines to observe: QB Aaron Rodgers, 40, returns from a torn Achilles (performed 4 snaps final season) and tries to defy Father Time in a way solely Tom Brady actually has carried out.
The beginning offensive linemen didn’t take sufficient snaps collectively to jell both of the previous two summers.
That may’t occur once more. When will Williams (torn ACL) be medically cleared?
Reddick skipped all OTAs and obligatory minicamp due to a contract dispute.
Will he observe or stage a hold-in?
The strain is on Saleh.
