(Not So) Free Agency

NFL teams spent $2.3B on Monday to kick off next season’s roster-building.

The Miami Dolphins made the first splash, cutting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa despite a $99M hit to their salary cap. Tagovailoa—snagged later in the day by Atlanta—was benched toward the end of 2025’s interception-heavy season. 

In other gridiron spreadsheets, Green Bay backup Malik Willis filled Tagovailoa’s vacated tank in Miami; veteran receiver Mike Evans swapped Buccaneer red for 49er… red; and Travis Kelce just said yes to another year with the Chiefs. Dotted lines can be signed today as free agency officially opens.

In the wider world of sports, Uncle Sam has ten Paralympic medals (see standings), winning two cross-country sprint golds Tuesday (see men’s vision impaired and women’s sitting) and beating China to advance to the sled hockey semis.

Verse to consider whether you’re celebrating a big pay day, counting pennies, or just wishing you had a little bit more… “No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?”
Matthew 6:24-25 (CSB) (read full passage)