NFL Training Camp Report: Jahmyr Gibbs Resets the Running Back Market + Fantasy Football Training Camp News for Every Team

Updated: August 7, 2026

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Yesterday's Five Biggest Stories

1. Jahmyr Gibbs Is Now the Highest-Paid Running Back in NFL History

Detroit closed the biggest running back week in league history. The Lions and three-time Pro Bowl back Jahmyr Gibbs agreed to a three-year, $67.5 million extension that can reach $75.75 million with $51.5 million of it locked in (@AdamSchefter). Ian Rapoport put the record in its exact terms: the highest average per year and the largest locked-in sum ever committed to a running back (@RapSheet). Jordan Schultz had reported substantial progress that morning with Gibbs set to return to practice once it was signed (@Schultz_Report), and Tim Twentyman had him in uniform taking walkthrough reps hours before it landed (@ttwentyman). Schultz's read on the sequencing is the useful part: once the Bijan Robinson deal was done, Detroit had a clear blueprint, and because Gibbs signed last he ended up on top of the market (@Schultz_Report). Eric Woodyard's ESPN story has the full terms.

The market, in one number: the NFL had exactly one $20-million-per-year running back entering this offseason. Three players joined that tier this week alone — Gibbs, Robinson and Jonathan Taylor (@AdamSchefter). By new-money average the board now reads Gibbs $22.5M, Robinson $22.25M, Taylor $22M, Saquon Barkley $20.6M, Christian McCaffrey $19M (@AdamSchefter).

Detroit has now handed out extensions to Gibbs, Aidan Hutchinson, Jack Campbell, Jared Goff, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Penei Sewell and Jameson Williams among others (@AdamSchefter), passing $1 billion in total with Sam LaPorta and Brian Branch still on deck, per Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN).

2. Football Is Back, and Carson Beck Owned the Night in Canton

The 2026 preseason opened with the Hall of Fame Game, and a rookie third-round quarterback took it over. Cardinals rookie Carson Beck finished 15-of-19 for 188 yards and a touchdown (@AdamSchefter), with PFF logging the same line at zero interceptions (@PFF); PFF had him at a 141.0 rating through 10-of-12 while the game was still going (@PFF). The drive of the night went nearly the length of the field: Johnny Venerable clocked it at 99 yards (@JohnnyVenerable) while the Cardinals beat had it at 96 after an early penalty pushed Arizona back (@Cardschatter), and it finished with a one-yard touchdown run. Adam Schefter's reaction says how unusual the whole night was: he does not recall seeing performances like it in a Hall of Fame Game (@AdamSchefter). Carolina still won it 33-30 on a Haynes King walk-off touchdown (@josephperson, @Panthers), and the 63 combined points were the second-highest in the game's history (@alexzietlow05). One counterweight worth keeping: Joseph Person noted the Panthers' second-team defense was making Beck look like a future Hall of Famer (@josephperson). Our full read on what those reps do and do not prove is in the battle spotlight below.

3. Jonathan Taylor Gets the Largest Third Contract Ever Given to a Running Back

Hours before the Gibbs news, Indianapolis moved first. The Colts and Jonathan Taylor agreed to a two-year, $44 million extension worth up to $47 million with $39 million locked in (@AdamSchefter), which Rapoport called the largest third contract for a running back in league history (@RapSheet); across the full $60 million the deal averages $19 million a year, another record (@RapSheet). Taylor signed it that afternoon (@AdamSchefter) and announced it himself at Grand Park alongside owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon, telling the crowd at night practice that everyone in attendance was getting a free beer (@Schultz_Report). Stephen Holder's ESPN story has the reporting behind the deal. The workload that earned it: 626 carries, 3,026 rushing yards and 32 total touchdowns over the past two seasons (@AdamSchefter). Indianapolis has now paid its entire skill trio, with Daniel Jones at two years and $88 million and Alec Pierce at four years and $114 million (@AdamSchefter).

4. A.J. Brown and Christian Gonzalez Nearly Had to Be Separated in Foxborough

The best practice-field story of the day came out of New England, where the reps between cornerback Christian Gonzalez and receiver A.J. Brown boiled over. Mike Reiss described real heat on the field, sparked by Gonzalez's trash talk after a stretch of lockdown coverage, with the two looking like they almost needed separating as the drill changed (@MikeReiss). Mark Daniels reported that Kayshon Boutte had to pull Brown away from Gonzalez (@ByMarkDaniels). Gonzalez won the play everyone saw, breaking up a throw to Brown in the end zone (@UnderdogNFL), then addressed the matchup afterward (@MikeReiss). Brown against a legitimate No. 1 corner every single day is the kind of camp diet that shows up in September, and it is the most encouraging thing to happen to his outlook since the receiver room reshuffled.

5. Saints Receiver Brock Rechsteiner Suspended for Six Games

New Orleans will open the season without one of its wideouts. Saints receiver Brock Rechsteiner has been suspended for the first six games of the 2026 season (@AdamSchefter). The timing detail matters for anyone reading August depth charts: he remains eligible for all preseason activities, including games, and the suspension only takes effect when rosters are cut to 53 (@AdamSchefter). Expect his preseason usage to look normal and to mean less than it appears.

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Team-by-Team Camp Notes

Arizona Cardinals

• Carson Beck's preseason debut is the story of the morning (full story above): 15-of-19, 188 yards, one touchdown, no interceptions (@AdamSchefter, @PFF).
• The reaction moved fast. Johnny Venerable's mid-game verdict was that it will not be long before Beck is starting in Arizona (@JohnnyVenerable), and PFF spent the night asking whether he could be the Cardinals' QB1 this season (@PFF).
• Context on where he actually sits: per the team's own feature at azcardinals.com, the third-round pick was assigned No. 19 after wanting No. 11, and he spent the offseason behind Gardner Minshew II in first-unit reps while Jacoby Brissett stayed out of practice over his contract situation (@Cardschatter).
• PFF, quoting Cris Collinsworth, put Trey McBride at the top of the position: the best tight end in football right now (@PFF).
• Mike Tomlin on the toughest division in football: "It's Game of Thrones out West." Underdog ran its own NFC West title odds alongside the quote, with Arizona at 3% (@UnderdogNFL).

Atlanta Falcons

• The most useful camp stat line in the league right now belongs to Michael Penix Jr.: 30-for-49 passing through camp, with more completions of 20-plus yards (four) than every other Falcons quarterback combined (two), per Daniel Flick (@ByDanielFlick). Volume passing efficiency in August is noise. A monopoly on the explosive throws is the part that survives contact with September.
• Jalon Walker was formally placed on injured reserve, and Atlanta claimed Keidron Smith off waivers (@AtlantaFalcons).
• Atlanta's own place in the running back reset held up for exactly one day: Bijan Robinson's extension (August 6 edition) topped the market at $22.25 million per year before Jahmyr Gibbs passed him Thursday at $22.5 million (@AdamSchefter).

Baltimore Ravens

• The Ravens went to pads for their longest practice of camp and it got chippy in a hurry. Mark Andrews and Trey Hendrickson shoved after a play with Trenton Simpson stepping between them (@jeffzrebiec); Carson Vinson and Tavius Robinson piled on after another rep, and coordinator Minter had already yelled at the defense for post-whistle nonsense before huddling the whole team (@jeffzrebiec).
• The defense set the tone early: a Hendrickson sack, a Keondre Jackson pass breakup and Tampa stripping Ali of the ball (@jeffzrebiec).
• On the other side of the ball, the team's feed carried the Lamar Jackson to Rashod Bateman connection (@Ravens) and another Elijah Sarratt catch (@Ravens).

Buffalo Bills

• A quiet reporting day in Orchard Park, with the team's account carrying it: field painting is underway at Highmark Stadium (@BuffaloBills, gallery), and Dante Pettis scored in team work (@BuffaloBills).
• Nothing from the Buffalo beat made the wire, which leaves the August 20 joint practice against Cleveland (August 6 edition) as the next scheduled place this roster gets tested in public.

Carolina Panthers

• Haynes King won the Hall of Fame Game with a walk-off touchdown (@Panthers, @josephperson), capping a full night of work: 21-of-34 for 180 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, a 95.2 rating, three carries for 39 yards and a score, and the game-winning drive (@UnderdogNFL).
• The backup quarterback conversation started immediately, with Sheena Marie renewing her case that King should be Carolina's QB2 (@Sheena_Marie3). Passing game coordinator Brad Idzik crashed King's press conference to ask him about the quarterback draw (@mike_e_kaye).
• Joseph Person's pregame piece flagged four Panthers to watch in Canton, including a rookie quarterback treating the night as a tryout for Carolina and for the other 31 teams (@josephperson).

Chicago Bears

• Caleb Williams closed a physical Day 8 with a perfect two-minute drill: 6-for-6 from his own 35 down 24-21, spreading it to Colston Loveland, Kalif Raymond, Rome Odunze and D'Andre Swift before finishing with a touchdown to Luther Burden in the back of the end zone (@CourtneyRCronin). That is the second straight day we have logged a clean situational period from Williams, after Wednesday's red-zone 7-on-7 (August 6 edition).
• Rookie DT Jordan van den Berg is forcing his way up the depth chart. He took inside-run reps in the rotation with the starters (@adamjahns) and blew up an offensive lineman on a rep with the third team (@BradBiggs); Jeremy Fowler reports Chicago has bigger plans for him than a typical sixth-round flier after he tested off the charts in their pre-draft system (@JFowlerESPN).
• The mentorship note of the day: Ben Johnson told rookie Zavion Thomas to shadow Kalif Raymond and copy everything, and three months in Thomas is paying it forward with Raymond (@CourtneyRCronin).
• The injury column was long (see Injury Watch below) (@adamjahns).

Cincinnati Bengals

Quiet day in Bengals camp — nothing notable to report.

Cleveland Browns

• Day 8 was the final day of offensive installation, and Mary Kay Cabot's daily scorecard on how Deshaun Watson and Shedeur Sanders fared is the one to read (@MaryKayCabot); her Day 7 entry had Watson rebounding with his best day of camp to outshine Sanders (@MaryKayCabot).
• Tony Grossi's question is the one that matters: did Todd Monken tip his hand by giving Watson the No. 1 reps ahead of Sanders? His Day 8 notes also have the defense's interception count at 14 in eight practices and possible offensive line changes (@TonyGrossi).
• Luke Floriea worked with the No. 1 offense for a second straight day (@AkronJackson).
• Jerry Jeudy says a video circulating was doctored to make it look like he prefers Watson over Sanders, and explained what his four fingers actually meant (@MaryKayCabot). Dillon Gabriel, still outside the two-man race, says he is focused on the present (@ceasterlingABJ).

Dallas Cowboys

• Jon Machota's practice clips were all George Pickens, twice over (@jonmachota, @jonmachota).
• The left tackle competition is still live, though Clarence Hill's question is who exactly Tyler Guyton is competing against (@clarencehilljr).
• Off the field, Dak Prescott was handed a hat by a fan after practice with his late brother Jace on the side of it (@jonmachota).

Denver Broncos

• One name to file: Adam Schefter reports that Jonah Coleman has turned heads at Broncos camp (@UnderdogNFL). A roster-bubble name drawing a national mention in the first week of August is worth a note now and a second look at cutdowns.

Detroit Lions

• Jahmyr Gibbs is the NFL's highest-paid running back (full story above), and he was suited up and taking walkthrough reps before the deal was announced (@DetroitOnLion).
• The practice note underneath the news is a genuinely good sign: down their top three running backs, Detroit's first-team offense scored touchdowns on three straight red-zone plays, two of them on the ground, which Dave Birkett reads as an endorsement of the new-look offensive line (@davebirkett).
• Jared Goff checked in at No. 33 on the NFL Top 100 (@Lions), and Jameson Williams supplied the catch of the day (@UnderdogNFL).

Green Bay Packers

• MarShawn Lloyd caught a wide-open touchdown in 11-on-11 and celebrated with a backflip (@mattschneidman), which earned him a coaching note he relayed in the locker room afterward (@mattschneidman). Jason Wilde's framing is the fair one: after everything the third-year back has been through, the joy is hard to contain (@jasonjwilde). A healthy, celebrating Lloyd is the best backfield news Green Bay has had in two summers.
• Matt LaFleur billed Thursday as a lighter day and it was anything but, with Bill Huber's rundown covering the winning unit, injuries, lineup notes and key plays (@BillHuberNFL).

Houston Texans

• Houston extended linebacker Henry To'oTo'o on a two-year, $16 million deal (@AdamSchefter). Mike Garafolo adds the shape of it: To'oTo'o is 25, can earn another $1 million in incentives, and set himself up for a third contract in a few years (@MikeGarafolo).
• Jayden Higgins has been one of the stars of training camp, per Jonathan M. Alexander (@UnderdogNFL). That is a second straight day a national account has pushed a Higgins camp note, and the reports have outpaced the buzz around him.

Indianapolis Colts

• Jonathan Taylor's extension is signed (full story above), and he broke the news to fans himself at Grand Park before night practice (@RomeovilleKid, @Schultz_Report).
• Two names still sit in contract limbo behind him: guard Quenton Nelson and defensive tackle DeForest Buckner are both entering the final year of their deals (@AdamSchefter).
• Roster move: the Colts signed tight end Pharaoh Brown and placed Sean McKeon on injured reserve (@AdamSchefter).
• Kevin Bowen's night notebook has a player who is "on fire right now," another injury for a key rookie, and a reserve running back flashing (@KBowen1070).

Jacksonville Jaguars

• Roster housekeeping: Jacksonville signed linebacker Jahlani Tavai and waived linebacker Jared Bartlett with an injury designation (@Jaguars).
• The Jaguars open their gates for a mock game Friday (@Jaguars) — the first public look at this roster in a game-shaped setting.

Kansas City Chiefs

• The clearest illustration of how fast the running back market moved: Kenneth Walker signed with Kansas City in March as the fourth-highest-paid back in football by average per year. He is now ninth at $14.35 million (@UnderdogNFL). His role never changed. The ground moved under him.
• Kansas City was one of the teams that reached out to Stefon Diggs before he signed in Washington, along with Miami and Las Vegas, per Schefter (@UnderdogNFL).
• Practice color: Justin Fields to Travis Kelce (@Chiefs).

Las Vegas Raiders

• Rookie cornerback Jermod McCoy's first absence of camp was planned, not a setback. Per Sam Warren's camp notes at The Athletic, assistant head coach Mike McCoy said the staff laid out a rest plan for him a long time ago and there is no cause for concern; Las Vegas is managing the knee cartilage issue that dropped a torn-ACL recovery into the fourth round (@samwarren83). Warren's read on those first practices is genuinely mixed: a pass breakup on an E.J. Williams Jr. slant and tight end-zone coverage against Dareke Young, but also a hold conceded to Shedrick Jackson after getting beaten deep and trouble breaking on hitch routes in one-on-ones.
• The same notebook flags a shakeup on the offensive line and a budding competition at right guard.
• Las Vegas signed veteran running back Dare Ogunbowale (@AdamSchefter, @Raiders) — a pass-protection and third-down addition, not a threat to the touch distribution.

Los Angeles Chargers

Quiet day in Chargers camp — nothing notable to report.

Los Angeles Rams

• The Aaron Donald situation has a timeline. Per Mike Florio, Donald could make a decision in the coming days, and if he comes back he could play 30 to 40 snaps in Week 1 (@camdasilva). Sean McVay, asked about Donald's tryout appearing on the transaction wire, called it the best tryout the team has ever had (@UnderdogNFL).
• Underdog's NFC West title odds, run alongside Mike Tomlin's "Game of Thrones out West" line, give the Rams the best chance in the division at 51% (@UnderdogNFL).

Miami Dolphins

• Miami was among the teams that called on Stefon Diggs before he signed with Washington (@UnderdogNFL). The fantasy read: a team that just tried to add a 1,000-yard veteran was telling us what it thinks of its WR3, and having missed, the targets behind Miami's top two stay concentrated rather than spread.

Minnesota Vikings

• Aaron Jones went on Inside Training Camp earlier in the week to weigh in on the quarterback battle, how long he wants to keep playing, and which young Vikings he likes (@RapSheet).
• Not everyone is treating it as a competition. Easton Freeze's "wake me when the Vikings stop pretending" post (@eastonfreeze) links his A-to-Z Sports case that the job is already Kyler Murray's: the piece argues Minnesota effectively assured Murray the role in free agency, that J.J. McCarthy's camp wobbles (including the three straight unopposed overthrows we covered Tuesday) confirm the gap, and that splitting first-team reps only delays Murray's mastery of Kevin O'Connell's offense. Our read is unchanged: the trend across a full week of reps is the signal, and no single drill is — but the loudest published case now sits firmly on the Murray side.

New England Patriots

• A.J. Brown and Christian Gonzalez nearly needed separating (full story above) (@MikeReiss, @ByMarkDaniels).
• What we are watching in Foxborough from here: whether the staff keeps matching Gonzalez on Brown in camp one-on-ones — the best receiver-versus-corner rep on the roster, chippiness included. Veteran starters barely play in preseason games, so those practice reps are the clearest read on Brown's role in Drake Maye's offense before the games count.

New Orleans Saints

• Brock Rechsteiner will miss the first six games of the season (full story above) (@AdamSchefter).
• Barion Brown is the rising star of this camp, per Kat Terrell, and he is starting to take snaps with the first-team offense after opening mostly with the twos (@UnderdogNFL). He scored again Thursday (@Saints), and Nick Underhill's throw of camp was a Spencer Rattler strike on the move on third down that found Brown for the winning touchdown in a team period (@nick_underhill).
• Underhill's broader message about the first-team offense: let those guys make mistakes and get better, and a backup quarterback playing well is a good thing (@nick_underhill).
• Hall of Fame weekend color: Gayle Benson surprised Drew Brees with his jersey on Tom Benson's statue in Canton (@Saints).

New York Giants

• Cornerback Dru Phillips has a mild knee sprain and will be out for a bit, with Ardarius Washington and Nic Jones next up (@PLeonardNYDN).
• Odell Beckham Jr., fighting for a roster spot, gave the quote of the week on the subject: "Yesterday's touchdown doesn't win you today's game." (@PLeonardNYDN)

New York Jets

• Connor Hughes' one-line report from practice: Geno Smith looks really good (@Connor_J_Hughes).

Philadelphia Eagles

• A quiet day out of the NovaCare Complex on the reporting front. The team's feed had Saquon Barkley making his practice appearance (@Eagles) and one more highlight clip (@Eagles).
• The open question we are tracking here is the backup job behind Jalen Hurts, which has gone quiet since the Dalton-McKee competition was last reported (August 6 edition).

Pittsburgh Steelers

• The best thing said about a rookie quarterback all day came from Mike McCarthy on Drew Allar, via Brian Batko: there has not been a day where Allar has not made a throw that tells the staff a young man is taking a step (@UnderdogNFL). That is the language of steady progress rather than a breakout, and in August the steady version is the one that tends to hold up.
• The team's feed marked 8/6 with a Hines Ward tribute (@steelers).

San Francisco 49ers

• Brock Purdy put on a deep-passing clinic with a skeleton-crew receiver group again, hitting 70-yard touchdowns to Malik Turner and KhaDarel Hodge a day after going 13-of-14 (@LombardiHimself, @LombardiHimself). Raheem Morris said Purdy is practicing with real intensity.
• The injury count reached 20, though Matt Barrows reports the joint practice with Tennessee is not in jeopardy yet (@mattbarrows).
• Underdog's NFC West title odds put San Francisco at 21% (@UnderdogNFL).

Seattle Seahawks

• Mike Macdonald on rookie running back Jadarian Price: "Nobody has covered him yet." (@UnderdogNFL) A head coach volunteering that a rookie back is uncoverable out of the backfield is a receiving-role signal, and receiving roles are what make cheap backs matter in fantasy.
• Seattle sits second in Underdog's NFC West title odds at 29% (@UnderdogNFL).

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

• The Vita Vea standoff got its official answer. General manager Jason Licht said the Buccaneers have no plans to trade the Pro Bowl nose tackle and still view Baker Mayfield as a franchise quarterback (@AdamSchefter). Jenna Laine's ESPN story has Licht's full remarks from Thursday. After a week in which the beat read the standoff as trending toward a trade (August 6 edition), the front office has drawn its line publicly.

Tennessee Titans

• Asked for his NFL comparison, Carnell Tate went with "Tae Adams" (@UnderdogNFL) — an ambitious bar for a young receiver to set for himself.
• Roster move: Tennessee signed linebacker Dominique Hampton and waived/injured linebacker Shad Banks (@jwyattsports).
• Next week's joint practice with San Francisco is still on despite the 49ers' growing injury list (@mattbarrows).

Washington Commanders

• New context on the Stefon Diggs signing: Kansas City, Miami and Las Vegas all reached out to him before Washington closed the deal, per Schefter (@UnderdogNFL). Washington did not simply inherit a free agent nobody wanted.
• JP Finlay, watching the Hall of Fame Game, wondered aloud whether it was some of the best rookie quarterback play the event has seen (@JPFinlayNBCS).

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Camp Battles Tracker

Where the NFL camp battles stood after Thursday's practices and the preseason opener, with the receipts.

Arizona Cardinals Quarterback Battle: How to Read the Reps

One preseason quarter turned a third-round rookie into a national conversation, so this is the right morning to say what those reps are worth. Carson Beck finished the Hall of Fame Game 15-of-19 for 188 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions (@AdamSchefter), including a 96-to-99-yard march, depending on which beat you follow, that ended in a one-yard touchdown run (@JohnnyVenerable, @Cardschatter). Johnny Venerable's mid-game read was that it will not be long before Beck starts in Arizona (@JohnnyVenerable), and PFF spent the night polling the same question (@PFF).

Two facts have to sit next to that line. The first is the opponent: Joseph Person, who covers the other sideline, wrote that Carolina's second-team defense was making Beck look like a future Hall of Famer (@josephperson). The Hall of Fame Game is the only night of the year when a passer can face a defense that will be largely out of the league by September. The second is the depth chart. Per the Cardinals' own feature on Beck, he entered as a third-round pick assigned No. 19 after hoping for No. 11, and he watched Gardner Minshew II take the first-unit reps through the spring while Jacoby Brissett stayed off the practice field over his contract situation. Nothing about Thursday night changed the order of that room.

The two scenarios: If Beck's accuracy holds against starters in the next two preseason games, Arizona has a real decision by Week 1 and every Cardinals pass-catcher's projection gets a new input. If it collapses against first-team speed, the night reads as a rookie beating up on players who will be cut, and the depth chart stands.

How to read it from here: the reps that matter are the ones against defenses that still have their starters on the field, which for most teams means the second and third preseason games and next week's joint practices. Beck's completion rate is the least interesting number in that line — the useful one is that he did not turn it over while operating a real two-minute-adjacent drive, because ball security against pressure is the thing rookie quarterbacks actually lose jobs over. Our projections still have Arizona's Week 1 starter as an open question rather than a settled one, and the honest fantasy move is to price Trey McBride and the Cardinals' pass-catchers off the offense rather than off any single quarterback until the reps come against real defenses.

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Injury Watch

• Jalon Walker, EDGE, Falcons: Formally placed on injured reserve (@AtlantaFalcons) — the paperwork on the torn ACL Atlanta confirmed earlier this week (August 6 edition).
• Braxton Jones and Montez Sweat, Bears: Both exited Thursday's practice with injuries, and Dallis Flowers and Gervarrius Owens each appeared to go down with serious leg injuries (@danwiederer).
• Dru Phillips, CB, Giants (knee): A mild sprain that will keep him out for a bit; Ardarius Washington and Nic Jones step in (@PLeonardNYDN).
• Sean McKeon, TE, Colts: Placed on injured reserve, with Pharaoh Brown signed to replace him (@AdamSchefter).
• Jermod McCoy, CB, Raiders (knee): Missed Thursday by design, not setback — assistant head coach Mike McCoy said the rest was planned long ago and there is no cause for concern (@samwarren83).
• Ravens non-participants: WR Dayton Wade, ILB Carl Jones and DL Aeneas Peebles did not practice, with ILB Teddye Buchanan and Travis Jones on PUP (@jeffzrebiec).
• 49ers, roster-wide: The injury count reached 20, though the joint practice with the Titans is not in jeopardy yet (@mattbarrows).
• Jared Bartlett, LB, Jaguars: Waived with an injury designation as Jacksonville signed Jahlani Tavai (@Jaguars).
• Shad Banks, LB, Titans: Waived/injured as Tennessee signed Dominique Hampton (@jwyattsports).

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