2025 NFL Week 1 Buzz: Buccaneers lengthen RT Luke Goedeke

Who’s starting, who’s hurt, and who’s on the move? 

NFL news is nonstop, and we’re breaking it all down week by week this season.

Here’s the latest on what’s happening around the league entering Week 1:

Buccaneers, RT Luke Goedeke agree on extension

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and right tackle Luke Goedeke came to terms on a four-year extenstion, worth $90 million ($50 million guaranteed). The Buccaneers selected Goedeke in the second-round of the 2022 NFL Draft and 2025 was the final year of his rookie contract. Now, he and the team are tied together through the 2029 season. In 2024, Goedeke ranked 30th among 140 tackles, per pro football focus, while allowing just three sacks on the season. 

Two months after suffering an eye injury in a fireworks incident that caused him to miss all of training camp, Harris is set to make his debut for the Chargers against the Chiefs in Brazil on Friday. The veteran running back was a full participant at practice on Sept. 2, increasing his chances of playing in Week 1. Harris, a former first-round pick, signed a one-year deal with LA in March after spending the first three years of his career with the Steelers (2021-24).

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Russell Wilson will be under center to begin the season for the Giants, but rookie Jaxson Dart is now listed as New York’s No. 2 quarterback ahead of Jameis Winston, who signed a two-year deal with the franchise in March. The Giants traded up to select Dart with the No. 25 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft out of Ole Miss.

Despite Parsons and the Cowboys having a messy and public breakup — one that has persisted beyond the trade that sent the edge rusher to the Packers — Parsons’ agent, David Mulegheta, does not see it impacting any future negotiations between Dallas and his other client, Pickens. 

“There’s nothing personal here,” Mulugheta said. “If George Pickens does what we expect him to do, which is be one of the best [WRs] within the NFL this yr, we’ll have these conversations with the Cowboys.”

Pickens performed for the Steelers for the previous three seasons earlier than the Cowboys acquired him this offseason. Pickens is now Dallas’ No. 2 WR behind CeeDee Lamb. In 2023, Pickens led the AFC in yards per reception at 18.1 whereas logging 1,140 receiving yards, and he adopted that up with 900 yards in 12 begins and 14 video games in 2024.

Stafford has been coping with an aggravated disk that prompted him again soreness, and it has saved him from collaborating in preseason actions or coaching camp for a lot of the summer time. Nonetheless, the veteran signal-caller is anticipated to begin for the Rams in Week 1 towards the Texans, per head coach Sean McVay. Stafford, 37, has been the Rams’ QB since 2021, beginning 16 video games for the workforce in 2024 whereas throwing for 3,762 yards and 20 touchdowns towards eight interceptions. It is unclear at this level how a lot of an impression the again harm could have on Stafford’s Week 1 efficiency or season, however he has repeatedly been unable to match the timeline prompt by the Rams for his restoration in the course of the preseason, together with lacking a mid-August apply when he had been slated to take part.

Newly minted Packers DE Micah Parsons training by again sprain

Earlier than Parsons was traded to the Packers final week, he was coping with a sprain in his again that the Cowboys had simply prescribed him a therapy plan for. Parsons is affected by an L4/L5 side joint sprain in his again, per ESPN, and will take an epidural injection for it earlier than Week 1’s sport vs. the Lions to permit him to play by the harm. Parsons, who was in a bodily remedy program to assist with the sprain, was prescribed a five-day prescription for a corticosteroid to assist with the inflation earlier than the commerce that despatched him to Inexperienced Bay, and has been training since whereas letting the prednisone do its work. It is unclear, per ESPN’s supply, if Parsons will play in Week 1, although he’s making an attempt to do extra than simply relaxation and recuperate this week if it is doable.

Ailing Dolphins getting again on observe

The Dolphins have been coping with a variety of accidents heading into Week 1 of the season, however issues are wanting up on that entrance. Head coach Mike McDaniel advised reporters that working again De’Von Achane, extensive receiver Tyreek Hill and tight finish Darren Waller had been trending towards taking part in in Week 1. Achane began 16 video games for the Dolphins in 2024, choosing up 907 yards on the bottom and one other 582 within the air whereas totaling 12 touchdowns. Achane is questionable, whereas Jaylen Wright, who’s recovering from leg surgical procedure, is uncertain for Week 1. Alexander Mattison is on IR with a season-ending neck harm, leaving third-stringer Ollie Gordon II as the one one with a clear invoice of well being.

The Steelers and Warren have agreed to a two-year extension that brings the worth of his deal as much as three years and $17.25 million. Warren receives a $5.95 million signing bonus, and his wage for 2025 shall be bumped to $7 million, with $5.05 million and $5.15 million payouts within the following two campaigns, per ESPN. Of the $17.25 million, $12 million is assured. Warren is the highest again on the Steelers’ depth chart for 2025, however he has by no means began a sport. He has seen appreciable use, although, as he has appeared in 16, 17 and 15 contests in three seasons with Pittsburgh. He has amassed 1,674 speeding yards and 6 touchdowns in 346 makes an attempt, in addition to one other 894 receiving yards.

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