NFL minicamp 2025 live updates: Saquon Barkley refreshed, ready to run it back

The NFL's 2025 mandatory minicamps person kicked into afloat cogwheel this week. ESPN's NFL reporters are connected the crushed to supply accusation connected presumption battles, notable appearances from caller faces, compelling quotes from coaches and players and springiness updates connected injuries and holdout situations.

We volition person updates each time of campy to support you informed connected each the latest. Here's what you request to cognize from Tuesday camps crossed the league:

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What our NFL Nation reporters saw today

Arizona Cardinals

It hasn't taken agelong for seasoned antiaircraft lineman Calais Campbell to marque his beingness felt. During antiaircraft enactment drills, Campbell, the elder statesman of the full team, wasn't shy astir who helium offered proposal to. After 1 rep, helium spent a fewer moments with chap veteran, albeit younger by 7 years, Dalvin Tomlinson, sharing immoderate penetration connected technique. Tomlinson was receptive, listening intently to what Campbell had to say. Tomlinson said the antiaircraft enactment has already developed a brotherhood and added that helium and Campbell person talked astir learning arsenic overmuch from the room's younger players arsenic they bash from the older vets. -- Josh Weinfuss

Seattle Seahawks

Don't fto Sam Darnold's Orange County upbringing and laidback dependable fool you. To perceive manager Mike Macdonald and information Julian Love picture him, there's an borderline to the Seahawks' caller quarterback.

Or arsenic Love enactment it: "Sam conscionable has immoderate worldly to him."

Macdonald utilized the aforesaid operation to picture Darnold's competitiveness, thing some talked astir astatine magnitude aft the team's archetypal minicamp signifier Tuesday.

"The happening you emotion astir Sam is he's conscionable a dude, man," Macdonald said. "He's similar 1 of the guys ... He's close determination with them successful each the things. That's him. But there's immoderate s-- to him. Like, don't messiness with him. He's got that borderline to him, that competitiveness, and the guys respect that."

Love said Darnold isn't acrophobic to speech smack backmost erstwhile helium hears it from the defense, though helium likened the quarterback's retorts to "dad jokes." -- Brady Henderson

Los Angeles Chargers

Offensive tackle Rashawn Slater made his archetypal quality astatine Chargers practice. Slater, who made his 2nd Pro Bowl past season, has been eligible for a declaration hold since past offseason. He is successful the last twelvemonth of his rookie declaration and skipped each of the Chargers' voluntary activities. Harbaugh said Slater passed his conditioning trial and that "everybody successful the enactment wholly supports Rashawn and what he's trying to execute for himself and his family." Slater competed successful each of the Chargers squad and idiosyncratic drills.

Still, Harbaugh said helium doesn't similar to deliberation astir players' contracts, leaving that up to GM Joe Hortiz and Slater's agent. "Absolutely large to spot him," Harbaugh said. " ... He adjacent said that the conditioning trial was excessively easy; that was his quote. 'Too easy.'" -- Kris Rhim

New England Patriots

Defensive coordinator Terrell Williams, who has been distant from the squad since a wellness scare successful precocious March, is person to re-joining the team. "He'll beryllium present soon and excited astir that," caput manager Mike Vrabel said. "I deliberation everybody's looking guardant to that." Inside linebackers manager Zack Kuhr has fulfilled Williams' duties successful his absence, with Williams inactive taking portion successful video conferences with the squad each morning. -- Mike Reiss

Tennessee Titans

Titans antiaircraft lineman Jeffery Simmons was successful attendance aft missing each of voluntary OTAs. Simmons said it was a idiosyncratic determination not to attend. But helium was hard astatine enactment portion helium was away. Simmons said helium dropped 20 pounds and weighed successful astatine 301 pounds Tuesday morning. He wasted nary clip having an interaction during practice. Simmons broke into the backfield to stroke up a mates of moving plays for what would person been a loss. He besides got to Cameron Ward for what would person been a sack. The coaches allowed the play to proceed and Ward flicked the shot to Tyjae Spears for a gain. Simmons barked astatine Ward aft the play and carried connected erstwhile the adjacent antiaircraft radical came in. But Ward was definite to bark back.

"I've been proceeding however overmuch smack helium talked truthful I told him I'm going to smack speech to you too," Simmons said. "I saw it myself that you could person a feline with that overmuch assured arsenic a rookie and the astir awesome happening wasn't him talking but being capable to get backmost successful the huddle, get the play to the guys and inactive run offense." -- Turron Davenport

Houston Texans

The antiaircraft ends caused immoderate havoc against the violative tackles. Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. were getting to backmost C.J. Stroud successful little than 3 seconds astatine times and adjacent had a rep wherever they bushed their feline and met Stroud astatine the aforesaid time. Last play Hunter and Anderson had 10-plus sacks and connected Tuesday looked similar they haven't mislaid a step. It's lone June, but that's encouraging for manager DeMeco Ryan's defense, which prides itself connected getting up tract and disrupting quarterbacks. -- DJ Bien-Aime

Cincinnati Bengals

Bengals backmost Joe Burrow spent immoderate other clip connected the signifier tract getting immoderate throws successful aft Day 1 of the team's mandatory minicamp. When helium spoke to reporters afterwards, helium said the bonus throws were to assistance him get into a bushed up of the upcoming season. And helium besides referenced the country connected the scapholunate ligament successful his close wrist successful 2023 and however helium is inactive moving connected his throwing motion.

"I talked astir past twelvemonth inactive wasn't rather backmost to throwing it the mode that I expect," Burrow said. "That's improved this year." Burrow believes things specified arsenic his throwing question and the ratio successful his merchandise volition get amended with much reps. For Burrow, seeing that betterment is "addicting."

"That's breathtaking for maine to consciousness that improvement. That's what keeps you coming back," helium said. All of those things could play a cardinal relation successful the Bengals playing good astatine the commencement of the season.

Buffalo Bills

Bills backmost Josh Allen returned to signifier aft missing voluntary organized squad activities (OTAs) past week. The reason? The caller jewelry connected his near ringing finger.

Allen joined his fiancée, Hailee Steinfeld, connected May 31, but said he's utilized to wearing the band. "We're backmost to football, got immoderate hardware now," Allen said smiling. If there's an offseason competition, Allen is doing beauteous good -- besides winning MVP and receiving a record-setting extension.

Coach Sean McDermott noted however it was awesome that Allen was the archetypal 1 astatine meetings they had with players connected Monday.

"It's been amusive to ticker him grow, but truly admit him being here, due to the fact that this is his team," McDermott said. "He is our unquestioned person ... and what helium does is, archetypal and foremost, pb by example." -- Alaina Getzenberg

Philadelphia Eagles

Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley acceptable a vocation precocious with 345 carries during the regular play and added 91 much during their Super Bowl run, but said his assemblage isn't dealing the effects.

"I consciousness truly good," Barkley said arsenic Philadelphia wrapped its one-day minicamp. "I consciousness similar I'm entering my prime."

Barkley said helium took immoderate clip disconnected and made definite not to overdo it successful his grooming post-Super Bowl to retrieve from the agelong season. He acceptable the all-time single-season rushing record, including playoffs, past play and capped the run by securing his archetypal Lombardi Trophy, but remains bare for more.

"The happening that drives maine is the aforesaid happening that's driven maine since I was a small kid. I've said this since I've gotten into the league and I don't mean it successful an arrogant way: I privation to beryllium the champion moving backmost to ever play, oregon astatine slightest 1 of the champion moving backs to ever play. The emotion of the game, wanting to triumph and wanting to vie and wanting to beryllium large is ever going to propulsion maine nary substance if we triumph 4 Super Bowls." -- Tim McManus

Denver Broncos

Broncos manager Sean Payton has consistently said however overmuch helium favors big-framed wide receivers successful his discourtesy and the benefits for backmost Bo Nix were connected show Tuesday. Courtland Sutton and rookie Pat Bryant -- 2 of the six wide receivers connected the existent roster who are astatine slightest 6-foot-2 -- made 2 of the astir notable catches successful drills successful the archetypal mandatory minicamp practice. The Broncos cognize opposing antiaircraft coordinators volition effort to unit Nix to enactment areas of the tract helium whitethorn not privation to, truthful having carnal receivers -- positive caller choky extremity Evan Engram -- who tin routinely triumph contested catches on the sidelines and successful the reddish portion volition assistance Nix navigate his 2nd second year.

"Very long, large hands, it makes it pugnacious ... and they tin enactment up anywhere,'' Broncos information Brandon Jones said. -- Jeff Legwold

San Francisco 49ers

The accomplishment of antiaircraft extremity Bryce Huff successful past week's commercialized with the Eagles has the 49ers dreaming of reclaiming the ascendant walk unreserved they had successful their 2019 tally to the Super Bowl. The aboriginal returns bespeak that Huff could bring a velocity constituent disconnected the borderline the Niners person been lacking. In fact, some near tackle Trent Williams and manager Kyle Shanahan invoked the sanction of the past speedy borderline rusher to genuinely complement Nick Bosa arsenic a means of examination for Huff. "When you speech astir conscionable getting disconnected the shot and however accelerated helium does it, helium volition beryllium our champion get disconnected the shot feline we've had since Dee Ford," Shanahan said. "It's bully to bushed tackles that way, but besides widens tackles to assistance with the wrong walk unreserved and things similar that and helium affects the quarterback." -- Nick Wagoner

Dallas Cowboys

During squad and seven-on-seven drills, the transportation betwixt backmost Dak Prescott and newly-acquired receiver George Pickens was spot-on. They hooked up for 5 completions, including a heavy retired and a yards-after-catch connected a resistance that had Prescott and receiver CeeDee Lamb gathering Pickens good down the field. It was besides a bully time for receiver Jonathan Mingo, acquired midseason past year, who got a spell shot from Prescott. -- Todd Archer

Las Vegas Raiders

Las Vegas Raiders starting near tackle Kolton Miller, who concisely held retired of the voluntary offseason workout programme owed to a declaration dispute, made a wide connection aft the archetypal time of mandatory minicamp: He wants to beryllium a Raider for life.

"I don't privation to spell anyplace else," helium said Tuesday.

Miller is entering the last twelvemonth of a three-year, $54 cardinal declaration hold that helium signed successful 2021. He has a headdress deed of $15.68 cardinal successful 2025 but doesn't person immoderate guaranteed wealth near connected his existent deal.

Miller elected not to skip the team's organized squad enactment practices and minicamp due to the fact that he's excited astir the civilization manager Pete Carroll is trying to found and wants to proceed his relation arsenic a person connected the violative line.

Miller has been a coagulated beingness connected the Raiders' violative enactment since they took him successful the archetypal circular of the 2018 draft. The erstwhile UCLA lineman has started successful 107 of 109 vocation games successful the Silver and Black.

"I've been present a agelong time. And Pete is preaching competition," Miller said. "We got to marque everyone better, including the young guys. So I'm going to proceed doing what I'm doing and pb the guys."

The Raiders person demonstrated a willingness to unafraid cardinal players connected semipermanent contracts. Defensive extremity Maxx Crosby, backmost Geno Smith and punter AJ Cole person received declaration extensions during the offseason. -- Ryan McFadden

Carolina Panthers

The archetypal time of mandatory minicamp ended with Hunter Renfrow catching a heavy walk implicit the enarthrosis from backup backmost Andy Dalton. It's different motion the erstwhile Raiders receiver is coming backmost beardown from missing past play with ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune illness that astir ended his career. It's besides a motion of conscionable however heavy the Panthers are astatine receiver with Renfrow mode down the database down Adam Thielen, Xavier Legette, Tetairoa McMillan and Jalen Coker. "Every time you spot him radiance successful antithetic ways,'' manager Dave Canales said of Renfrow.

"To spot him onslaught a zone, onslaught leverage disconnected of antithetic releases, it's truthful chill due to the fact that you tin manager disconnected that stuff. He makes plays each day.'' -- David Newton

Panthers manager Dave Canales loves the mode wide receiver Hunter Renfrow impresses successful his comeback from ulcerative colitis. On Tuesday it included a drawback connected a heavy shot to extremity practice. pic.twitter.com/bAr2Yfj79L

Green Bay Packers

The Packers mightiness person a Travis Hunter of their own, and his sanction is Bo Melton.

The backup receiver, who has played successful 22 games the past 2 seasons successful Green Bay, not lone played his regular position, but helium besides flipped implicit to the different broadside of the shot and played immoderate cornerback during Tuesday's minicamp practice. It was partially retired of necessity aft cutting Jaire Alexander and being down a mates of injured corners (Kalen King and Micah Robinson), but manager Matt LaFleur seemed to genuinely judge Melton could play some ways.

Sure enough, wrong the aforesaid squad period, Melton caught a walk from Jordan Love and besides tried to interruption up 1 intended for choky extremity Tucker Kraft.

Yes that's receiver Bo Melton playing cornerback. He's inactive wearing the achromatic discourtesy jersey. pic.twitter.com/ssv7aSSEE7

"That was decidedly confusing," Love said.

Melton's brother, Max, is simply a second-year cornerback with the Cardinals, and Matt LaFleur joked that this was Bo's accidental to amusement he's the amended defender.

"I cognize evidently there's a batch of attraction with Hunter down determination successful Jacksonville with what he's doing [playing some ways]," LaFleur said. "So we conscionable benignant of presented it to him and helium said helium was up for the challenge." -- Rob Demovsky

Miami Dolphins

Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill caught passes successful presumption drills -- the archetypal clip we've seen him bash truthful since helium had country connected his wrist earlier this offseason. Coach Mike McDaniel told reporters astatine the harvester that the extremity was for Hill to beryllium acceptable by the summer, and helium appears to beryllium connected gait for that. Hill didn't enactment successful squad drills but this was inactive a affirmative measurement guardant for the receiver aft a down twelvemonth successful 2024. -- Marcel Louis-Jacques

Washington Commanders

Cornerback Marshon Lattimore attended an offseason workout for the archetypal clip during the mandatory minicamp. He and tackle Laremy Tunsil some participated aft skipping the voluntary OTA sessions -- though Tunsil had astatine slightest worked retired present earlier successful the offseason. Lattimore looked arsenic you would expect: helium got successful occupation a mates times by aggressively biting connected a fake -- erstwhile vs. receiver Luke McCaffrey -- and different times helium broke hard connected a receiver to instrumentality distant an option. But the cardinal for Lattimore -- mode beyond however helium looks successful June -- is if helium performs astatine a higher level successful the season. And if helium stays healthy. Lattimore has lone played successful 26 games the past 3 years combined. -- John Keim

Marshon Lattimore successful the extremity drill: pic.twitter.com/6yU0kypCvC

New Orleans Saints

The Saints got immoderate cardinal veterans backmost who weren't astatine the team's erstwhile outpouring OTAs. Tyrann Mathieu and Alvin Kamara some returned aft skipping the voluntary information of the offseason, on with information J.T. Gray and antiaircraft tackle Nathan Shepherd. This is Mathieu's archetypal signifier clip since signing a renegotiated declaration that lowered his salary.

"I astir apt could've went determination else, but I deliberation for me, it's each astir my community, and my family, and conscionable trying to determination into that arsenic overmuch arsenic I can," helium said. "Outside of football, the large crushed I'm present is community."

Taysom Hill was besides successful attendance for the archetypal clip and watched disconnected to the broadside with choky extremity Foster Moreau, some of whom are dealing with superior genu injuries. Kellen Moore declined to reply if Hill could enactment successful grooming campy successful July, saying "that timeline is inactive beauteous acold distant and we'll interest astir that erstwhile it gets there, but he's been awesome done this full process." -- Katherine Terrell

Minnesota Vikings

The Vikings got a invited show Tuesday connected the archetypal time of mandatory minicamp. Left tackle Christian Darrisaw participated successful presumption drills for the archetypal clip since tearing the ACL and MCL successful his near genu successful October 2024.

Darrisaw is not yet cleared to enactment successful squad drills, and that isn't apt to hap anytime soon. Initial timetables suggested that helium would not beryllium acceptable for a afloat signifier astatine the commencement of grooming campy and would beryllium pressed to beryllium acceptable for Week 1 of the regular season. The Vikings signed a caller plaything tackle during escaped agency, Justin Skule, and helium has been moving successful Darrisaw's spot during 11-on-11 drills this spring.

As Vikings Entertainment Network posted, Christian Darrisaw was backmost connected the tract contiguous astatine minicamp for the archetypal clip since tearing his ACL and MCL past fall. pic.twitter.com/22yAjvV4Pw

It's not yet wide if Darrisaw's betterment clip has sped up. Every genu wounded is different, but for reference, choky extremity T.J. Hockenson returned 315 days aft suffering a akin wounded to his close knee. -- Kevin Seifert

New York Jets

Leaguewide, respective players seeking caller contracts are skipping mandatory minicamp. There's nary of that with the Jets. They person a fistful of players who would similar caller contracts -- astir notably, cornerback Sauce Gardner and wide receiver Garrett Wilson -- but their Day 1 attendance was 100%, according to manager Aaron Glenn. The beingness of Gardner and Wilson reflects the affirmative vibes that person emanated from Glenn's archetypal offseason. He's trying to alteration the culture, and it surely helps to person buy-in from 2 of the champion players connected the team.

"I don't cognize what you're talking astir with different guys holding retired (around the league), but our guys travel to vie -- and that's who they are," Glenn said. "Listen, I don't instrumentality that lightly, either. I'm appreciative, but I cognize however they're built, too. Those guys travel to work."

Wilson, successful particular, had a bully time connected the field. Reunited with erstwhile Ohio State backmost Justin Fields, Wilson made 3 sideline catches successful the archetypal 11-on-11 period, including a nifty toe-tap on the bound connected an off-platform propulsion by Fields. -- Rich Cimini

Atlanta Falcons

Tight extremity Kyle Pitts was successful the gathering Tuesday, but not extracurricular practicing owed to an injury, according to caput manager Raheem Morris. Pitts has been banged up this outpouring and missed OTAs practices, arsenic well. The mercurial erstwhile No. 4 wide pick, who has dealt with injuries and inconsistency, is going into a declaration twelvemonth and Morris said helium feels bully astir Pitts and backmost Michael Penix Jr. jelling successful 2024.

"[Pitts] has precise precocious standards for himself and I consciousness truly bully astir those 2 moving unneurotic and perfectly getting a amended result," Morris said.

Pitts had a historical rookie play successful 2021, but has not recovered that level since. Falcons Pro Bowl close defender Chris Lindstrom said it's a corporate extremity for Atlanta to person the champion discourtesy successful the NFL this season. If that comes to fruition, Pitts volition person to beryllium a large portion of it. -- Marc Raimondi

Cleveland Browns

Rookie quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders proceed to amusement improved comfortableness successful the Browns' discourtesy arsenic Cleveland's four-way QB contention progresses into mandatory minicamp.

Sanders' archetypal walk of squad drills went for a heavy touchdown, portion Gabriel threw 1 of his champion passes of the spring, lofting a high-arching walk into the extremity portion for a people during reddish portion drills.

Gabriel up next. Finds Jamari Thrash for the TD. One of his champion throws of the spring. https://t.co/S0QkJgJRUG pic.twitter.com/iGfci2Tiqq

"These guys are each good coached erstwhile we get them, but there's things successful the NFL game, conscionable the rules are antithetic successful immoderate areas. So I deliberation each these guys are making truly bully progress," manager Kevin Stefanski said aft practice. -- Daniel Oyefusi

Jacksonville Jaguars

Quarterback Trevor Lawrence was dealing with what caput manager Liam Coen called "general soreness" successful his close arm, but Coen said determination is nary interest astir an injury.

Lawrence -- who had offseason country to repair a sprained AC associated successful his near (non-throwing) enarthrosis -- was inactive a afloat subordinate successful the archetypal time of the Jaguars' three-day minicamp. He wore a sleeve connected his throwing arm, which helium besides did past week.

"We threw a batch of balls past week and truly starring up into helium feels bully [and] helium said it wasn't truly an issue," Coen said. "It was much sometimes erstwhile you conscionable person thing to support it warm, conscionable helps immoderate benignant of thrower. So I deliberation that was much conscionable attraction than it is thing that's truly bothering him." -- Mike DiRocco

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Bucs' reddish portion defence won the day. Linebacker Haason Reddick notched what would person been a sack connected backmost Baker Mayfield moving against Luke Goedeke. Veteran linebacker Anthony Nelson besides notched a would-be sack, arsenic did rookie Elijah Roberts. Plus, information Tykee Smith was capable to portion the shot from Jalen McMillan successful the extremity portion to forestall a touchdown. -- Jenna Laine