Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're always grinding our face off. I'm Greg Rosenthal, and beyond lucky today to be joined by nick Shook, who's going to do some news with me. Also excited, Will Brinson, who'll be joining me a little bit later to talk about players we're all in on for 2024. I'm all in on nick Shook this year. It's a big year for nick Shook.

I mean, look, every year in this time of year, we set expectations high, and we want to live up to those expectations. It's not quite a chip tracker. It's not best shape of my life, but the potential making the leap happening right here, right before your eyes.

I love it. Nick is rested, hopefully. Had a little time off, little boys trip, which is nice. I think that's the only time off he's had all season. We're going to to keep you busy today and all season long, Shook. You're going to be doing the news a lot with me. You're going to be doing a lot of the primetime games with me. And, yeah, let's get right into the news. News. All right, we start in Pittsburgh, where Russell Wilson was back on the field today. Shuki did some individual drills, but it was still Justin Fields with the first team. And Fields has had a nice little run here to start training camp with the first Other news there, unfortunately, Roman Wilson, their rookie wide receiver, left practice with an ankle injury. We haven't gotten severity of that yet. Mike Tomlin didn't sound incredibly enthused about it, so we'll have to wait and see. But for a third-round rookie pick, he expected to be a bigger part of the Steeler's plans than most rookies would be.

Yeah, it's a big bummer for me, personally, because he was one of my favorite picks in this entire draft, and especially how he would fit in that Steeler's receiving core. I thought he was a great complement to George Pickens. He was a sneaky good receiver at Michigan for those who paid attention to the Wolverines. So it's a bummer. You hear he exits on a cart early in camp. But then again, we don't quite know yet. So until we know, we can hold out hope that, Hey, look, You got a month. Let's say you can come back in a month. You're going to miss some of those rookie reps, but hopefully there's enough of a runway there where he could come back. Just keeping my fingers crossed that the worst doesn't happen. But when it comes to Fields and Wilson, if we were sitting back a month ago, which we were, and saying, When When is Justin Fields going to end the conversation? Because Russell Wilson is the starter as of right now. Well, he just got quite a jump on that process by getting all these opportunities with Russell Wilson out. Even today, Russell Wilson, according to those who were there, wasn't quite moving a lot.

It was more about passes than moving around. They're treating that really gingerly, which is going to keep the door cracked open for Justin Fields, could affect this whole thing.

Yeah, it's always tricky to know which minor injuries to talk about at this time of year because you just don't know how they're going to last. I wanted to choose these two because Wilson, who's been quite durable, is getting up there in years. In a soft tissue injury like this to start your year, it's not just that he's missing reps. He's a veteran, although it's a new system, and he's letting Justin Fields get those reps. I'm sure he's not feeling that comfortable about that, which is maybe why he's forcing getting back on the field too early. When you see these types of injuries with veterans, they often reoccur. I know we got a while before the regular season starts, but that's a concern. Then with rookies, they just miss that time that they can never get back. So you hope, even if it was something where he's back, nick, before the regular season, I can just hear the 2025 puff piece that's like, Roman Wilson. I never quite got back up to speed after missing training camp. It's especially interesting to me just because they don't have any receivers. I can't believe they went into Training Camp with Pick-ins as their one.

Okay. Then Van Jefferson, Calvin Austin, and Roman Wilson as their 2, 3, 4. It's one of the worst 2, 3, 4s in the league. All of those guys have chances. I think Van Jefferson, maybe the ship has sailed on him. But it's a tough situation, I think, for the quarterbacks in Pittsburgh, this offense, where they're having a lot of new pieces on the offensive line, too, which are promising, but it's just a lot of question marks for Arthur Smith to deal with.

Yeah, it's a pivotal season because you have Arthur Smith there putting a new offense, and you have so many young pieces that you're going to be counting on. When you lose one of those, that's obviously going to hurt you. But on the flip side, I often wonder, the puff piece that you just referenced, we also hear the piece at the end of the season, which is, Oh, man, I really hit the rookie wall around week 12. Does a month off or however long he could miss, does that prevent you hitting the rookie wall? Is this a second half resurgence? Is this a making the leap candidate going into 2025? Anything's possible.

Okay. I mean, it worked for Odell Beckham, his rookie season. I think that works more for the next guy we'll talk about, Arden Key. He was a veteran who suspended six games for PEDs. Now, occasionally Certainly, there are guys that come back from the PED suspension, and they're never the same, and you wonder, What's the cause and effect here? I don't know if that's going to be the case with Arden Key. He's a guy who's a key pass rusher, not a superstar. But I think it's a nice spot for veterans to miss six games of the season and then, assuming he's healthy, just come back in and be a midseason replacement.

Yeah, it would be nice to get some reinforcements during the regular season that are because they had a month and a half off. It's interesting with him, though, because his career trajectory, he came out of LSU as a guy who was always going to be a first-round pick, but there were concerns about his effort level. He's been fighting those this whole career, and he's actually put together a pretty good career. Never quite what a lot of people thought it would be, but If you get that six weeks off, you're like, Hey, I'm refreshed. I'm rejuvenating. I'm going to give full effort for the first time.

Arden Key, I should have mentioned, is on the Titans now and had a nice season a year ago, has been previously with the 49ers and the Jaguars. Their defense, to me, has a lot of questions. Not a defense we've talked about a lot. They're hoping they get the full Harold Landry back, but Key was their second best edge rusher, so that's a big loss for the Titans. Just on the topic of suspensions, I do want to note, Rasha Rice has not been suspended, and Jordan Addison has not been suspended. I did ask around a little bit about this. I just think it's fair to say that no one knows when it comes to suspensions But I think it's fair to say that the Chiefs, who probably earlier in the offseason just assumed that this guy is going to miss time, now aren't so sure and are wondering if this potential suspension is not going to come until 2025 because the NFL would rather let the legal process play out, and it's going to end up taking that long. It's just something to watch there. You don't need to comment on that, but it's something to watch that we've assumed, Rishy Rice is not going to be there all 17.

I'm not so sure about that, and the same is true for Jordan Addison, but it still could happen. The NFL is extremely unpredictable when it comes to suspensions, but sometimes they do wait until the next season. I want to mention a potential holdout. As we're taping, we're sounds like D. K. Mechup, Tyler Locket, and Jackson Smith, the executive to me. It feels like if you want to be all in on somebody, too. I mean, I wouldn't dare take the quarterback in Seattle Seahawks from you. But I feel like he could have a career here as well.You could. And I'm trying to be careful. This is a daily show, Will. And I'm trying not to just- You know what I'm talking about, Jeter Smith, five days a week. Right. I'm trying to not repeat takes and support, but I'm very excited about everything offensively there. Really just about that whole team. Their week one game is Seattle-Denver, and that's one of the games I think it's a late game that I'm most excited to walk just because they're both just so... I have no idea what I'm going to get out of the quarterback situation with Denver that I'm actually curious. Then that Seattle team, I think, is just going to be so exciting on both sides of the ball.Can we get Can we get a camera on Russell Wilson for that game? It was supposed to be Russ's second revenge game against Seattle. Seattle got there, and somehow he's not even on the team.I I think at this point, Tyler Locket and DK were at his wedding, and the guy who fired him, well, I guess John Schneider is still there, but Pete Carroll is not there. I think he still has a lot of love and affection for Seattle in a way that he definitely doesn't for Denver. All right, we got just a couple. Let's go quick. Pick your favorites or go fast on a couple more that you got.I got three runningbacks. I'll give you four, but one of them, I think, was on your show.Can you be all in for all of them? I mean, this might be stretching the bounds of it, but go for it.Javante Williams, Rico Dauble, and Trey Sermon. It's Trey Sermon in JK Dobbins season again. I refuse to believe that Trey Sermon in JK Dobbins won't emerge from the depth chart ma that is holding them back and developing to... I do think those guys as late flyers will end up being really good. Dobbins running as number two. But then Dauble, why can't Rico Daudell just be the new Tony Pollard, who does all the work for the Cowboys offense. And then D. Kelly stumbles in from the five-yard line because Jerry Jones is demanding it from the luxury box. And then Javante Williams, just the way that Sean Payton has talked about him, and this is a guy who's incredible at Carolina. Early draft pick. Sean Payton said, he said it takes two, four years to really repair that surgery. And if you think about the type... He's not Alvin Kamara. I mean, nobody is in terms of that physical skillset, but he is He's a really good receiving back when he's allowed to, and he can be a little more physical than Kamara in that run game. I think you're going to see them lean into that run game because you've got a rookie quarterback in Bo Nicks who's just blatantly going to start 17 games.Yeah, he's one player, Javante Williams, where the preseason, I think, matters a lot. There's I'd say not that many that would be fantasy football relevant or have a chance to start, but he is one that I want to see just how he looks because it's always that second year coming off the ACL. Yeah, I thought Dobbins, if I wasn't just looking like a guy who was a homer after he was on the show on Tuesday. Yeah, he would have been my pick. That's why I asked him on because I've heard he's a great guy, and I'm really big on him, and he looked great at practice. So I think those are good picks, and Dautil is definitely the guy to shout out in that backfield. I would I know Tajay Spears is my last one. His change of direction is crazy. He was fifth last year as a rookie in PFF's elusive rating. They weren't such bad run blockers. And now you're bringing Brian Callahan and his dad, of course, who is going to set it up that running game in a much better way. He was close to top of the league, I think top 15, yards after contact, really good hands.You watch a highlight reel of Spears last year? It's like a snuff film. I don't think people realize how good he was, how many people. I know he's a Tulane guy, and they blew it by taking Kendre Miller over Tajay Spears in New Orleans. Miller hasn't been able to get on the field, but I'm all in on him. I'm all in on Drew Trankle, by the way, while I'm here, too, just as having a big off-ball linebacker season, if I want to get really nerdy. The Chief's fans out there know how good he is.Pete Prisco, by the way, all in on Will Levis. Okay. Because Levis could be the next Josh Allen. Which Hype Trade... Look, Pete's been on a heater with these quarterbacks. I don't know what happened. He was on a cold streak. He's been hot lately calling out these young quarterbacks. So just worth mentioning, he's got a good article interviewing Levis, talking to Callahan and about that offense and what they to do and how those guys are playing. So I'm sneaky in on the Titans this year.I do think the Titans are going to be much more box office and entertaining than they've been in a while. And Levis is the guy that I've fallen for over and over and usually been half right. They're fun and they're good. It's like Cutler or Tana, but he's a much more exciting version of those guys. So I do think they're going to be fun. Good shout to the article. I know you're writing articles. Cbs NFL writer got some teams in and out of the playoff. It's a big preview coming up in terms of best and worst case scenarios for every team. And yeah, one of the best to do it, Will. I appreciate you.Always fun, Greg.All right. For Will Brinson, that's going to be it for today. Really looking forward to Thursday's show. Bo Wolf is going to be on to... We're going to talk some eagles. We're going to go over all the news around the league. Thank you to nick Shuck, too, for taking care of the news for me at the top of the show. Until next time. We'll see you tomorrow.

sounds like D. K. Mechup, Tyler Locket, and Jackson Smith, the executive to me. It feels like if you want to be all in on somebody, too. I mean, I wouldn't dare take the quarterback in Seattle Seahawks from you. But I feel like he could have a career here as well.

You could. And I'm trying to be careful. This is a daily show, Will. And I'm trying not to just- You know what I'm talking about, Jeter Smith, five days a week. Right. I'm trying to not repeat takes and support, but I'm very excited about everything offensively there. Really just about that whole team. Their week one game is Seattle-Denver, and that's one of the games I think it's a late game that I'm most excited to walk just because they're both just so... I have no idea what I'm going to get out of the quarterback situation with Denver that I'm actually curious. Then that Seattle team, I think, is just going to be so exciting on both sides of the ball.

Can we get Can we get a camera on Russell Wilson for that game? It was supposed to be Russ's second revenge game against Seattle. Seattle got there, and somehow he's not even on the team.

I I think at this point, Tyler Locket and DK were at his wedding, and the guy who fired him, well, I guess John Schneider is still there, but Pete Carroll is not there. I think he still has a lot of love and affection for Seattle in a way that he definitely doesn't for Denver. All right, we got just a couple. Let's go quick. Pick your favorites or go fast on a couple more that you got.

I got three runningbacks. I'll give you four, but one of them, I think, was on your show.

Can you be all in for all of them? I mean, this might be stretching the bounds of it, but go for it.

Javante Williams, Rico Dauble, and Trey Sermon. It's Trey Sermon in JK Dobbins season again. I refuse to believe that Trey Sermon in JK Dobbins won't emerge from the depth chart ma that is holding them back and developing to... I do think those guys as late flyers will end up being really good. Dobbins running as number two. But then Dauble, why can't Rico Daudell just be the new Tony Pollard, who does all the work for the Cowboys offense. And then D. Kelly stumbles in from the five-yard line because Jerry Jones is demanding it from the luxury box. And then Javante Williams, just the way that Sean Payton has talked about him, and this is a guy who's incredible at Carolina. Early draft pick. Sean Payton said, he said it takes two, four years to really repair that surgery. And if you think about the type... He's not Alvin Kamara. I mean, nobody is in terms of that physical skillset, but he is He's a really good receiving back when he's allowed to, and he can be a little more physical than Kamara in that run game. I think you're going to see them lean into that run game because you've got a rookie quarterback in Bo Nicks who's just blatantly going to start 17 games.

Yeah, he's one player, Javante Williams, where the preseason, I think, matters a lot. There's I'd say not that many that would be fantasy football relevant or have a chance to start, but he is one that I want to see just how he looks because it's always that second year coming off the ACL. Yeah, I thought Dobbins, if I wasn't just looking like a guy who was a homer after he was on the show on Tuesday. Yeah, he would have been my pick. That's why I asked him on because I've heard he's a great guy, and I'm really big on him, and he looked great at practice. So I think those are good picks, and Dautil is definitely the guy to shout out in that backfield. I would I know Tajay Spears is my last one. His change of direction is crazy. He was fifth last year as a rookie in PFF's elusive rating. They weren't such bad run blockers. And now you're bringing Brian Callahan and his dad, of course, who is going to set it up that running game in a much better way. He was close to top of the league, I think top 15, yards after contact, really good hands.

You watch a highlight reel of Spears last year? It's like a snuff film. I don't think people realize how good he was, how many people. I know he's a Tulane guy, and they blew it by taking Kendre Miller over Tajay Spears in New Orleans. Miller hasn't been able to get on the field, but I'm all in on him. I'm all in on Drew Trankle, by the way, while I'm here, too, just as having a big off-ball linebacker season, if I want to get really nerdy. The Chief's fans out there know how good he is.

Pete Prisco, by the way, all in on Will Levis. Okay. Because Levis could be the next Josh Allen. Which Hype Trade... Look, Pete's been on a heater with these quarterbacks. I don't know what happened. He was on a cold streak. He's been hot lately calling out these young quarterbacks. So just worth mentioning, he's got a good article interviewing Levis, talking to Callahan and about that offense and what they to do and how those guys are playing. So I'm sneaky in on the Titans this year.

I do think the Titans are going to be much more box office and entertaining than they've been in a while. And Levis is the guy that I've fallen for over and over and usually been half right. They're fun and they're good. It's like Cutler or Tana, but he's a much more exciting version of those guys. So I do think they're going to be fun. Good shout to the article. I know you're writing articles. Cbs NFL writer got some teams in and out of the playoff. It's a big preview coming up in terms of best and worst case scenarios for every team. And yeah, one of the best to do it, Will. I appreciate you.

Always fun, Greg.

All right. For Will Brinson, that's going to be it for today. Really looking forward to Thursday's show. Bo Wolf is going to be on to... We're going to talk some eagles. We're going to go over all the news around the league. Thank you to nick Shuck, too, for taking care of the news for me at the top of the show. Until next time. We'll see you tomorrow.