Super Bowl buzz: Latest on NFL free agency, draft, coaches - ESPN

Our national NFL reporters have been in Las Vegas all week for Super Bowl LVIII, talking to execs, coaches, agents, scouts, players and other team sources. Of course, 49ers-Chiefs is the focal point of the week, as Patrick Mahomes and Brock Purdy get set to face off on Sunday night. But there are many more wheels turning in the NFL landscape this week, and Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano have the latest news.

What are people saying about the top free agents for next month? What about extension possibilities, trade candidates and fallout from the coaching carousel? And is there any early draft buzz ahead of the combine? Here is all the latest buzz, rumors and news that we heard this week.

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Fowler and Graziano empty their notebooks

Graziano: Kirk Cousins' impending free agency is a story at this year's Super Bowl, much like it was six years ago when the big game was in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Vikings are working to see if they can keep their 35-year-old quarterback — who is coming off an Achilles tear — and they'd like to have an answer in the next few weeks so they can plan accordingly.

The final four years of Cousins' contract voids on the final day of the league year, which means the Vikings can't franchise him, as the void date is after the franchise tag window. And his $28.5 million in dead salary cap charges would accelerate onto their 2024 cap if he's not signed to an extension by that date. That dead cap acceleration wouldn't prevent them from re-signing him, but it would be a lot easier for them to manage the deal if they could get an agreement before March 12 and