• Christian McCaffrey signed the richest running back deal in NFL history on a new deal that will keep him with the Panthers through 2025.  Christian McCaffrey signed a 4 year, $64,000,000 contract with the Carolina Panthers, including an average annual salary of $16,000,000. In 2020, McCaffrey will earn a base salary of $2,816,090, while carrying a cap hit of $5,485,872 and a dead cap value of $5,485,872.

• Those few incomplete deals due to team physicals have been completed.  Todd Gurley, DeAndre Hopkins and David Johnson are now officially in their new jerseys.

• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking at potential trade offers for their former first round pick OJ Howard according to former NFL Executive Michael Lombardi. 

• Leonard Fournette is also being shopped as the Jags are looking for potential trade partners. 

• The Bears released tight end Trey Burton. He had 2 years left on his 4 year contract.

• Per Adam Schefter, Jamal Adams is not expected to take place in the Jets virtual off-season program when it opens later this month. The Jets have not expressed any official interest in extending Adams this off-season. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-york-jets/jamal-adams-21747/

• Matt Breida signed his one year tender with the 49ers on Thursday. Matt Breida signed a 1 year, $3,259,000 contract with the San Francisco 49ers, including an average annual salary of $3,259,000. In 2020, Breida will earn a base salary of $3,259,000, while carrying a cap hit of $3,259,000

• According to the Miami Dolphins’ GM Chris Grier, the team is considering both Justin Herbert out of Oregon and Tua Tagovailoa from Alabama at the 5th pick later this week. “They’re both interesting people, they’re both good kids.” were his words.

• The wonderlic scores for the 2020 quarterback draft class were leaked to the public as they always do. Tua Tagovailoa's score of 13 was the lowest in the class.

• Plug the Live Stream for the first round of the draft on Thursday night at the end of the News.

• Mark emailed in and wants to know what we think about OBJ being treated as a low end WR1 in most pre-season rankings.  He feels that he should be a later pick due to the trade rumors and general decline in play along with the injury issues.

• @McJammar on Twitter wants us to put our GM hats on and walk the audience through our dream scenario for our teams this upcoming NFL draft.

• Benny Cunningham’s tweet about the NFL being rigged in an effort to promote his brand.

https://heavy.com/sports/2020/04/rb-benny-cunningham-nfl-is-scripted/

• If you could pick one skill position player’s landing spot in this weekend’s NFL draft, who would it be and where would they go? Looking at the 2020 fantasy impact only.

J: Deandre to Miami

B: John Taylor to the Chiefs  

• Give us a player that is almost certainly on your “Do Not Draft” list and why?

B:adam Thielen 

J: Waller/Jones