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The Cleveland Browns pulled off one of the most shocking decisions of the offseason when they decided to trade Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams on Monday. 

The Browns decided to get rid of Garrett, even though he’s coming off a 2025 season in which he set an NFL record with 23 sacks. The only way a trade like this can even begin to make sense is if you’re able to get something solid in return and the Browns did exactly that. 

Not only did the Browns get Jared Verse as part of the deal, but they also landed three draft

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The 2025 Seahawks were not in the Super Bowl conversation heading into the season at +6000, with the loss of DK Metcalf leading to questions about the ceiling of the offense and the move to Sam Darnold at quarterback causing much of the same. But not only did the team’s young defense go from being solidly above average to one of the best units in the league, but the offense enjoyed nearly as much success as Darnold, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak proved the doubters wrong. The Seahawks won a close NFC Championship Game against the division rival

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Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!

With the NFL about to hit the dead part of the offseason, you might be wondering what we’re going to be talking about in this newsletter for the next six weeks, and although I have no idea, I promise you, it will be exciting, and I know that because NFL news never sleeps. The NFL news cycle is the Energizer Bunny of news cycles; it just keeps going and going and going and going. Nine billion years from now, when the universe implodes on itself, the NFL news cycle will somehow

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The Green Bay Packers are locking in an important piece of their core. The Packers signed wide receiver Christian Watson to a four-year, $110.5 million contract extension that includes a $31 million signing bonus, ESPN reported. He previously signed a one-year, $11 million extension to cover his fifth NFL season. The new contract makes Watson one of the highest-paid receivers in all of football.

The table below shows the highest-paid receivers in the NFL by average annual value, in millions. Watson checks in 15th in the NFL by average annual value for receivers, just ahead of Buffalo Bills wideout DJ Moore, who

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The Chargers played most of 2025 with a patchwork offensive line after losing left tackle Rashawn Slater before the season, with right tackle Joe Alt managing just six games played. Still, they won 11 games and made the playoffs for a second straight year since Jim Harbaugh took over as head coach. With hopefully better health at tackle, a rebuilt interior of the offensive line and a new offensive coordinator in Mike McDaniel, quarterback Justin Herbert has the pieces in place to make a run at MVP and potentially much more success with the Chargers in 2026.

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Lost in the heavyweight fight between the Seahawks and Rams in the NFC West was an excellent rebound 2025 season for the 49ers after going 6-11 the previous year. The return to respectability for the defense led to San Francisco winning at least 12 games for the third time in the last four years. But their season ended in the divisional round from the opening kickoff of their game against the Seahawks, and they’ll enter 2026 with a perceived gap between the 49ers and the top two teams in the NFC West.

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While the Raiders haven’t won a division title since 2002, they managed to avoid the basement of the AFC West for five straight years starting in 2019, even making the playoffs once during that stretch. Then the bottom came, with four wins in 2024 and then three last year, earning the No. 1 pick in the draft. That has allowed the franchise to reboot once again, this time with quarterback Fernando Mendoza who is fresh off a national championship with Indiana, and new head coach Klint Kubiak who is fresh off a Super Bowl title with the Seahawks. However, rebuilds

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The Rams led the league in scoring in 2025 but fell short of even winning their division thanks in part to 38-37 loss in overtime to the Seahawks in Seattle. The remedy? Try to create the best defense in the league for 2026. That plan started by trading with the Chiefs for Trent McDuffie then signing his former teammate Jaylen Watson in free agency, with both grading as top-20 cornerbacks last season. The biggest move came on June 1 when the team shipped Jared Verse and picks to the Browns for reigning Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett. Those

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The 2012 Chiefs won two games, fired their coach and brought in Andy Reid to get the franchise back on track, and for the next 12 years they never posted a losing season and made 11 trips to the playoffs. Then 2025 was an unmitigated disaster as the Chiefs opened the year with back-to-back losses, rallied back to 5-3 by midseason and then lost eight of their last nine games as well as Patrick Mahomes to an ACL tear late in that skid. Now Mahomes is in a battle with the clock to be ready for Week 1 while the

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The Arizona Cardinals had some sleeper buzz heading into 2025 off the back of a solid season and a busy offseason. But they were quickly left behind in the NFC West and wound up with their worst record since the merger. As a result, the team is rebooting at head coach and quarterback, with Mike LaFleur taking over after three successful seasons as offensive coordinator of the Rams and former No. 1 overall pick Kyler Murray now in Minnesota. This figures to be a bridge season to the team’s next franchise quarterback and, in perhaps the toughest division in football,

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