2026 NFL offseason: Making sense of 10 lingering questions - ESPN

We follow the NFL offseason very closely, and it has this concentrated feel to it. The Super Bowl ends, and we basically go immediately into the combine, free agency, the trade market and the draft — one right after the other.

Then we get to the middle of May, and fans look up and start to reconsider everything. «Wait, wasn't my favorite team supposed to address wide receiver?» «Hold on, wasn't this guy supposed to get a new contract?»

We address those unresolved questions — the stuff we were pretty sure would happen but still has not (at least not yet). Some of those questions have answers, and we have endeavored here to provide some reasoning to 10 of them. Let's start with a team that traded or cut basically everyone amid a transition… except for its star running back?

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CLE | DAL | HOU | LAR | MIA
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Miami is clearly in rebuild mode, having pared its roster of big salaries, taken on $99 million in dead money by cutting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and traded top wide receiver Jaylen Waddle to the Broncos before the draft. Achane has one year left on his rookie contract at $5.767 million, and to this point the Dolphins have not extended him. Achane has averaged 1,445 scrimmage yards and 12 touchdowns per season in his first three years in the league. He also doesn't turn 25 until October.

In a market where Kenneth Walker III got over $14 million per year and Breece Hall got over $15 million per year, one would think Achane at less than $6 million would be an appealing trade target for teams… and that a team looking to amass draft picks would listen.

Talking to Dolphins staffers throughout this offseason, what I've been told is that the team views Achane, center Aaron Brewer and linebacker