NFL Training Camp Report: Stefon Diggs Signs With Washington + Fantasy Football Training Camp News for Every Team

Updated: August 6, 2026

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Yesterday's Five Biggest Stories

1. Stefon Diggs Signs With the Commanders, and Washington's Target Tree Just Changed

The receiver Washington had been circling all week is now a Commander. Jordan Schultz broke the news that the team is signing four-time Pro Bowl wideout Stefon Diggs (@Schultz_Report), Nicki Jhabvala and JP Finlay quickly confirmed it (@NickiJhabvala, @JPFinlayNBCS), and Adam Schefter reported the terms: a one-year deal worth up to $12 million (@AdamSchefter). Ian Rapoport's framing captured how quietly it came together: while the entire league focused on Brandon Aiyuk speculation, Washington closed a deal with Diggs instead (@RapSheet); Schultz reported Diggs was Washington's primary target to pair alongside Terry McLaurin, and that he and Jayden Daniels had been in communication (@Schultz_Report). The fantasy case writes itself. Field Yates points out Diggs finished 12th in the NFL in catches last season while playing just 55% of the Patriots' snaps, filling what Yates calls a glaring WR2 need (@FieldYates). Diggs, a DMV native coming off the seventh 1,000-yard season of his career (@Schultz_Report), enters Year 3 of the Daniels era at full health after a normal offseason, per Rapoport (@RapSheet). John Keim's ESPN story has the full picture. Every Washington pass-catcher's projection moves this morning, and so does Daniels'.

The fantasy ripple: Terry McLaurin keeps the alpha role, Diggs steps into the WR2 target share Washington never filled last season, and Jayden Daniels adds the reliable veteran separator his profile was missing. Three prices to re-check before your next draft.

2. Arrowhead Is Just Arrowhead Again

The day's biggest engagement number belonged to a stadium. The Chiefs announced that, starting this season, their home will once again be known simply as Arrowhead (@AdamSchefter). The "GEHA Field" naming-rights branding is gone, per Pete Sweeney (@pgsween). It changes nothing about a single projection, but it tells you how loudly the football world reacts when one of its cathedrals gets its name back. No camp story drew a bigger reaction Wednesday.

3. Puka Nacua Hires the Agency That Just Reset the WR Market

Rams standout Puka Nacua, entering the final year of his four-year rookie contract, has hired Win Sports Group to represent him in contract negotiations (@AdamSchefter). That is the agency on Zay Flowers' $140 million Baltimore extension a day earlier (August 5 edition), which is exactly why the hire is a story and not a transaction footnote: agencies get hired to convert leverage, and no receiver in football has more of it right now than Nacua. A Nacua negotiation shadowing the season is the kind of storyline that can drift into practice availability, so we are watching how Los Angeles handles it from here.

4. Tank Dell Practices for the First Time Since December 2024

The best comeback story of the summer took a real step Wednesday. Texans receiver Tank Dell returned to the practice field for the first team padded work he has done since December 2024 (@AdamSchefter). Per DJ Bien-Aime's ESPN report, Dell participated in a limited capacity after missing all of last season following the knee injury he suffered in Week 16 of 2024. Limited reps in early August leave a long road to fantasy relevance, but a healthy Dell was one of the most explosive slot options in football, and C.J. Stroud's target tree gets a lot more interesting if he makes it all the way back.

5. It's Official: Jalon Walker Is Out for the Season

The fear from Tuesday's practice became formal Wednesday: the Falcons confirmed Jalon Walker will miss the 2026 season with the torn ACL he suffered Tuesday (@AdamSchefter). Jeremy Fowler reported the tests that confirmed the tear (@JFowlerESPN), and the team made it official shortly after (@RapSheet). Daniel Flick's audit of what remains in Atlanta's edge room is sobering: Samson Ebukam two years removed from a torn Achilles, unproven Bralen Trice, and an open question about which version of Azeez Ojulari shows up (@ByDanielFlick). For a team that spent its offseason locking up the offensive core, the defense's centerpiece problem now has a season-long shape.

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Team-by-Team Camp Notes

Arizona Cardinals

• Carson Beck got his final practice in Wednesday before starting tonight's Hall of Fame Game (@BoBrack).
• Tyler Drake's preview of the backfield usage in Canton: with Jeremiyah Love not playing and Tyler Allgeier likely in the same boat, expect a heavy dose of Bam Knight and Corey Kiner (@Tdrake4sports). Preseason snap reports on those two will tell us more about the back of this depth chart than any August practice note.

Atlanta Falcons

• Bijan Robinson's extension is signed, sealed and celebrated. The team posted his message to the city after he put pen to paper (@AtlantaFalcons), Michael Penix Jr. joked that the quarterback room's advice is that if you get into trouble, just "Bij" it (@UnderdogNFL), and Robinson said former coach Arthur Smith texted him a warning not to start buying everything (@ByDanielFlick).
• Jalon Walker is officially out for the season (full story above), and Daniel Flick's breakdown of the thinned-out edge room is the piece to read on what it means (@ByDanielFlick).
• The strangest depth-chart story in football: undrafted rookie Jack Strand, from Division II Minnesota State-Moorhead, has led the Falcons' first-team offense as a pseudo QB1 over the first week of camp, per Marc Raimondi (@marcraimondi).
• Wednesday brought the first full-contact tackling of camp and a noticeable energy spike, though safety Jessie Bates III was not on the field (@FalcoholicKevin). Penix hit Antwane Wells Jr. deep for a touchdown against Cobee Bryant (@FalcoholicKevin), and Avieon Terrell answered with an 11-on-11 interception of Tua Tagovailoa (@FalcoholicKevin).

Baltimore Ravens

• Zay Flowers signed his four-year extension before Wednesday's practice and went straight back to work (@jamisonhensley). The day-after color was good: Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley took him to dinner the night before (@jeffzrebiec), he said Eric DeCosta had told him all along he would be taken care of (@jeffzrebiec), and he called Jackson the best in the world and said he wants him as his quarterback for the rest of his career (@jamisonhensley). The detail we filed away: he gained eight pounds this offseason to run through more tackles (@UnderdogNFL).
• Another practice, another Ja'Kobi Lane highlight. The rookie leapt over Marlon Humphrey's coverage in the back of the end zone to catch a Lamar Jackson red-zone throw (@jamisonhensley); Jonas Shaffer noted he ran the crosser with Humphrey closest and still got it clean (@jonas_shaffer), and Brian Wacker's verdict is that the hype train rolls on (@brianwacker1).
• The coaching staff is now saying it out loud: OC Declan Doyle, a former Saints assistant, said Lane's ability to snatch the ball reminds him of Michael Thomas (@jamisonhensley), describing the rookie as a very easy guy to throw to (@jeffzrebiec). Comps like that from a coach's own mouth are why Lane stays on our late-round list.

Buffalo Bills

• DJ Moore's mic'd-up segment made the rounds: he had the cape out for New York (@BuffaloBills).
• The team also announced its 2026 home game themes, starting with an Inaugural Season celebration (@BuffaloBills). Circle August 20 on the football calendar instead: that is the joint practice against the Browns, and Cleveland's quarterback rotation plans for it are already news (see Cleveland below).

Carolina Panthers

• The Panthers open the preseason tonight against the Cardinals in the Hall of Fame Game, and the team posted its how-to-watch guide (@Panthers).
• Mike Kaye and Alex Zietlow's podcast preview covers what they are watching in week two of camp and the first preseason action (@mike_e_kaye).

Chicago Bears

• Caleb Williams had his cleanest period of camp: 9-of-10 with five touchdowns in red-zone 7-on-7, the only incompletion essentially a throwaway, capped by Kaden Davis' diving one-handed grab in the back corner (@AdamHoge). Adam Jahns adds that Colston Loveland caught two of the touchdowns (@adamjahns). Red-zone efficiency is where Williams' fantasy ceiling lives, so we will take the data point.
• Darnell Wright's extension, the biggest ever for a right tackle (August 5 edition), got its locker-room victory lap: Ben Johnson acknowledged it after practice and joked that Wright owed his position coach a loan (@AdamHoge), while Wright opened his own remarks by giving thanks to Jesus (@CourtneyRCronin).
• OC Press Taylor gave the clearest articulation yet of Ben Johnson's offensive philosophy: explosives over efficiency — the offense is built to attack a defense (@AdamHoge). That is a pro-ceiling scheme signal for every Bears skill player.
• LB T.J. Edwards was activated off the Active/Non-Football Injury list (@ChicagoBears), while Joe Thuney and Grady Jarrett got what looked like a veteran rest day (@BradBiggs).

Cincinnati Bengals

• The most quietly important usage note of the day: Chase Brown has been deployed all over the formation early in camp, similar to the way Ja'Marr Chase has been used in recent years, per Paul Dehner Jr. (@UnderdogNFL). Formation versatility is the difference between a volume back and a volume-plus-routes back, and the second kind wins fantasy leagues.

Cleveland Browns

• Todd Monken revealed why Tuesday's practice ended when it did: he stopped it after Shedeur Sanders led a successful two-minute drive because he wanted the offense to end on a high note, which means Deshaun Watson never got a two-minute drill of his own (@ScottPetrak).
• The structure of the competition is now explicit. Monken said Watson and Sanders will keep alternating first-team reps every practice until he names a starter, and whoever leads the No. 1 offense in the August 20 joint practice against the Bills will simply follow the natural rotation (@DanielOyefusi). Each will start one of the first two preseason games, with the season starter probably taking Game 3, per Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot).
• Zac Jackson's read on the timeline: no starting quarterback until at least August 23 (@AkronJackson). Every Cleveland pass-catcher's draft price stays frozen until then.
• Dillon Gabriel says he does not feel disrespected by being left out of the two-way battle (@MaryKayCabot).

Dallas Cowboys

Quiet day in Cowboys camp — nothing notable to report.

Denver Broncos

• Bo Nix laid out the plan for Jaylen Waddle: middle of the field, outside, vertical, behind the line: wherever the defense gives it, Denver will attack with him, per Nick Kosmider (@UnderdogNFL). A quarterback describing a receiver as an everywhere player is the usage profile we want to hear in August.

Detroit Lions

• Front-office news in Detroit: the Lions named Richard Haddad, currently the Detroit Pistons organization's chief operating officer after a 14-year tenure there, as Team President and CEO; he joins in early September (@AdamSchefter). The team's announcement has the details.

Green Bay Packers

• The moment of the day in Green Bay: first-year special teams coordinator Cam Achord was asked how Trey Smack likes his kicks held, came off the podium, and physically demonstrated for almost two minutes (@mattschneidman).
• OC Adam Stenavich says Matthew Golden's route detail is much better in year two: playing fast, strong hands, playing with confidence, per Matt Schneidman (@UnderdogNFL). Second-year receiver leaps are the most reliably underpriced asset class in fantasy drafts.
• Micah Parsons is only about seven months post-surgery from an injury that was more than an isolated ACL tear, but he hardly ruled out a Week 6 return against his former team (@mattschneidman).
• With Carrington Valentine down with a hamstring injury, DC Jonathan Gannon explained why Brandon Cisse got the first-team reps: the staff wanted to see what he could do, and he has the skill set they drafted him for (@ByRyanWood).

Houston Texans

• Tank Dell is back on the practice field (full story above).
• C.J. Stroud marched the starting offense into field-goal range in the two-minute drill, hitting Jayden Higgins and Foster Moreau on big-time throws; DJ Bien-Aime noted the offensive line gave Stroud all day on the Higgins strike (@Djbienaime). After last season's protection problems, that last detail is the one we underlined.
• The new-additions tour continues: Derek Stingley Jr. called Jadeveon Clowney a dog (@HoustonTexans), and DeMeco Ryans singled out WR Lewis Bond as a guy who has stood out (@HoustonTexans).

Indianapolis Colts

• Kevin Bowen's halfway-point update on the key Colts position battles is out (@KBowen1070).
• Joel Erickson's observation says more than any single rep: the story everyone talked about all offseason, Daniel Jones' right Achilles, has been almost an afterthought at camp (@JoelAErickson). No news on a surgically repaired Achilles is genuinely good news.

Jacksonville Jaguars

Quiet day in Jaguars camp — nothing notable to report.

Kansas City Chiefs

• The stadium got its name back (full story above).
• The football note that matters more for September: Rashee Rice participated in the 11-on-11 periods for the first time all camp (@ByNateTaylor), and Patrick Mahomes connected with him in goal-line work (@HaroldRKuntz3). A fully integrated Rice changes the entire Kansas City target distribution.

Las Vegas Raiders

• Sam Warren's camp notebook from the Raiders' off day is the best single read on this roster right now: kicker battle, Nakobe Dean, DJ Glaze, Jack Bech, and the growing Fernando Mendoza-Malik Benson connection (@samwarren83). The kicker competition gets our full breakdown below.
• Per Warren's piece at The Athletic, Klint Kubiak's camp mantra ("compete with each other, not against each other") started with Mendoza describing his pairing with Kirk Cousins: the room is working to help the veteran succeed as the starter while setting up the No. 1 pick for the future.
• The team's own training camp mailbag tackled which 2025 draft pick could make a sophomore leap (@Raiders).

Los Angeles Chargers

• OC McDaniel says second-year WR Tre' Harris is absolutely starving to improve, praising a physical style he called more physical than some tight ends he has been around, per Alex Insdorf (@UnderdogNFL).
• McDaniel also handed Omarion Hampton the camp's biggest compliment: arguably the most growth of any player, with the focus from his five weeks off showing immediately (@UnderdogNFL). Coordinator praise for a second-year back's offseason is exactly the kind of smoke that precedes a workload bump.
• Rashawn Slater was working in individual drills Wednesday (@danielrpopper), an encouraging sight a day after his trip to the medical tent (August 5 edition).

Los Angeles Rams

• Puka Nacua hired Win Sports Group for contract negotiations (full story above).
• A Rams alumni note: veteran edge Ogbo Okoronkwo signed with the 49ers, where he reunites with Raheem Morris from their time together with the Rams, per Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN).

Miami Dolphins

• David Furones flagged the schedule wrinkle: the Dolphins may get their first look at Stefon Diggs in a Commanders uniform at next week's joint practice in the DMV (@DavidFurones_).

Minnesota Vikings

• The quarterback competition rages on, and Tyler Forness explained why he refuses to score it with per-practice stat sheets (@TheRealForno), a healthy corrective in a battle where every camp observer is keeping a different tally. Our own read on the rep sheets is unchanged from yesterday's spotlight: the trend across a full week matters, single drills do not.

New England Patriots

• Stefon Diggs' departure is now final, and Field Yates' numbers frame what New England is replacing: 12th in the NFL in catches on just 55% of the snaps (@FieldYates). That target vacuum is the subtext of every practice report out of Foxborough.
• Evan Lazar's 10-practice stock report on the crowded receiver room covers the seven wideouts competing for spots and roles: Brown, Doubs, Douglas, Boutte, Hollins, Williams and Chism (@ezlazar). His full breakdown at Patriots.com asks how many of them make the initial 53.
• One mover to note: Romeo Doubs missed Wednesday's walkthrough after a productive stretch of camp, per Mark Daniels (@ByMarkDaniels).

New Orleans Saints

• Nick Underhill's four-word scouting report on Spencer Rattler — "Rattler has leveled up" — came with a sharper edge: "Some team should call about him." (@nick_underhill) A beat writer openly suggesting trade interest in a backup quarterback is a camp-performance signal worth logging.
• Rookie Barion Brown keeps making plays (@Saints), and Vernon Broughton stacked some real good reps (@Matthew_Paras).

New York Giants

• Roster housekeeping with a season-ending note: Roy Robertson-Harris went on reserve/injured with the Achilles he tore in the spring, WR Beaux Collins was released, and CBs David Long and D.J. James were added (@JordanRaanan).
• Patricia Traina's framing of Isaiah Likely is the buzziest tight end take of the week: paid like a difference-maker, and with Matt Nagy's offense and Jaxson Dart at quarterback, New York expects him to become a nightmare matchup (@Patricia_Traina).

New York Jets

• The Jets reached agreement with tight end Connor Hulstein out of Marist (@AdamSchefter).

Philadelphia Eagles

• Jalen Hurts opened practice sharp: a clean 7-on-7 in which the only incompletion was a drop, with the highlight throws going to Dallas Goedert over the middle and Dontayvion Wicks in a tight window (@BrandonGowton, @EliotShorrParks). Asked about the receiver room, Hurts singled out Darius Cooper (@BrandonGowton).
• Vic Fangio, never one to protect feelings: "We got the better of the offense yesterday — by a long shot." He added it has been that way for two years (@Jeff_McLane).
• Lane Johnson has now missed four straight practices for a non-injury reason and is expected back soon, per Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane).
• Line shuffle notes: rookie Drew Kendall ran first-team left guard with Landon Dickerson resting, and Markel Bell held down right tackle again (@BrandonGowton). The team also signed WR Brandon Hayes (@Eagles).

Pittsburgh Steelers

• A quiet Wednesday on the reporting front; the team's own feed carried the day with a little practice pop (@steelers).

San Francisco 49ers

• The 49ers officially signed WR KhaDarel Hodge and DL Ogbo Okoronkwo to one-year deals, waiving DL Kevin Givens and DL Cameron Sample to make room (@AdamSchefter).
• The injury report grew: Nick Bosa, Dre Greenlaw and Osa Odighizuwa sat with soreness, Kyle Juszczyk broke a finger, Jacob Cowing has a hip flexor strain, and Carver Willis is in concussion protocol (@nwagoner). Details in the Injury Watch below.

Seattle Seahawks

• Mike Macdonald's Hard Knocks moment: he told his team how Michael Jordan sacrificed scoring to win more, landing on the line that the secret sauce in the NFL is connection (@Schultz_Report).

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

• The Vita Vea standoff simmers. Todd Bowles says he will not worry about Vea's trade demand until the preseason games wind down: it's still early, and the team is not concerned at this point (@NFLSTROUD). Rick Stroud's read is less relaxed: it is not going well, could end in a trade, and the Bucs seem willing to wait only until the second or third preseason game (@NFLSTROUD).
• Camp highlights: Ted Hurst III drew the team's are-you-kidding-me clip (@Buccaneers), and rookie Rueben Bain Jr. keeps drawing the mission-mode edit (@Buccaneers).

Tennessee Titans

• Easton Freeze's preview of next week's joint-practice venue compared the scenery to the foothills of Mordor (@eastonfreeze). Camp humor aside, joint practices are where August evaluations get real, and we will be reading those reports closely.

Washington Commanders

• Stefon Diggs is a Commander (full story above), with terms at one year and up to $12 million (@AdamSchefter).
• Dan Quinn says Jeremy Reaves has earned what he is getting at safety and is squarely in the mix to start or play a lot: "We could use a lot more Jeremy Reaves." (@john_keim)
• Sonny Styles closed practice with a big goal-line pop on Jacory Croskey-Merritt; John Keim confirmed with Reaves that it was all Sonny (@john_keim).

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Camp Battles Tracker

Where the NFL camp battles stood after Wednesday's practices, with the receipts.

Las Vegas Raiders Kicker Battle: How to Read the Reps

A kicker competition rarely earns the spotlight, but this one directly decides a fantasy-relevant job, and Wednesday brought the best-reported look inside any camp battle in the league. Per Sam Warren's camp notebook at The Athletic, veteran Matt Gay and rookie Kansei Matsuzawa, the "Tokyo Toe," are in a tight race, and special teams coordinator Joe Decamillis is not framing it as a veteran keeping a seat warm: he categorized it as a legitimate competition (@samwarren83).

What makes the battle readable is how openly the two are pushing each other. Warren's piece has Gay praising the rookie as way farther ahead than Gay was at that stage and hitting the ball great, and Matsuzawa calling Gay a great mentor. That mutual-respect framing runs through the whole roster: Klint Kubiak's camp mantra is compete with each other, not against each other, a phrase Fernando Mendoza popularized when describing how the quarterback room supports Kirk Cousins as the starter while grooming the No. 1 pick behind him.

The two scenarios: If Matt Gay's track record holds serve through the preseason games, he opens the season as a usable fantasy kicker in a rising offense; if Matsuzawa outkicks him in live stadiums, the cheaper rookie wins the tie and deeper-league drafters get a free square nobody is watching.

How to read it from here: when a coordinator publicly validates a rookie specialist against an established veteran in early August, the reps that matter are the live ones: preseason kicks, in stadiums, starting this week. A veteran on a real contract usually holds serve in a coin-flip camp; a rookie who wins preseason legs outright can flip the math, because the cheaper specialist wins ties. Our projections treat the Raiders' kicker job as genuinely open until the preseason boots say otherwise, and fantasy drafters in deeper formats should draft the situation, not the name.

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Injury Watch

• Jalon Walker, EDGE, Falcons (torn ACL): Officially out for the 2026 season (@AdamSchefter). Full story above.
• Rashee Rice, WR, Chiefs: Participated in 11-on-11 periods for the first time all camp (@ByNateTaylor) and connected with Patrick Mahomes in goal-line work (@HaroldRKuntz3).
• Tank Dell, WR, Texans (knee): First team padded practice since December 2024, in a limited capacity (@AdamSchefter). Full story above.
• T.J. Edwards, LB, Bears: Activated off the Active/Non-Football Injury list (@ChicagoBears).
• 49ers rest-and-repair day: Nick Bosa, Dre Greenlaw and Osa Odighizuwa sat with soreness; Kyle Juszczyk broke a finger; Jacob Cowing has a hip flexor strain; Carver Willis is in concussion protocol and Brett Toth is out with an undisclosed issue (@nwagoner).
• Micah Parsons, LB, Packers (knee): About seven months post-surgery from more than an isolated ACL tear, with plenty of rehab left, but he hardly ruled out a Week 6 return against his former team (@mattschneidman).
• Carrington Valentine, CB, Packers (hamstring): Down with a hamstring injury, opening first-team reps for Brandon Cisse (@ByRyanWood).
• Roy Robertson-Harris, DL, Giants (Achilles): Placed on reserve/injured; his season is over (@JordanRaanan).
• Jessie Bates III, S, Falcons: Was not on the field for Wednesday's practice (@FalcoholicKevin).

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