The Submit’s Ryan Dunleavy breaks down the AFC East storylines going into coaching camp:
Buffalo Payments
Coach: Sean McDermott (eighth 12 months)
Coaching camp website: Rochester
Key additions: Curtis Samuel and first-round rookie Keon Coleman may battle for No. 1 WR rights.
Perhaps S Mike Edwards and WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling can share a number of the Chiefs’ secrets and techniques as they change sides within the AFC’s greatest 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 transferring 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 look at: Can the Payments full a move?
QB Josh Allen must construct fast chemistry with an virtually 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 move 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 likely be on the new seat if this group begins slowly once more.
Miami Dolphins
Coach: Mike McDaniel (third 12 months)
Coaching camp website: 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 might be mentioned on protection for fliers taken on S Jordan Poyer and DL Calais Campbell.
No less than LB Jordyn Brooks, CB Kendall Fuller and C Aaron Brewer are on the best facet of 30. First-round rookie DE Chop Robinson addressed a giant want.
Key losses: DT Christian Wilkins (Raiders) and RG Robert Hunt (Panthers) cashed in huge 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 a giant gap.
Coaching camp storylines to look at: QB Tua Tagovailoa is “antsy” about getting a contract extension completed, maybe sensing reluctance for the Dolphins to dish out the market-rate $50 million per 12 months given his harm historical past.
He additionally has slimmed down after final 12 months’s much-hyped bulk-up.
Do the Dolphins have sufficient move 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 high type off of great accidents.
New England Patriots
Coach: Jerod Mayo (first 12 months)
Coaching camp website: 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 speculated 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 look at: The Invoice Belichick Period — six Tremendous Bowl wins in 24 years — is over. Will the “Patriots Approach” of little enjoyable and heavy secrecy proceed beneath 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, enjoying with journeyman weapons? The Patriots spent huge 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 website: 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 a giant contract with the Eagles, making Reddick out there 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 look at: 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 completed.
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 necessary minicamp due to a contract dispute.
Will he apply or stage a hold-in?
The strain is on Saleh.
