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ESPN · May 12, 2026, 12:14 PM

Key takeaways

  • The Super Bowl ends, and we basically go immediately into the combine, free agency, the trade market and the draft -- one right after the other.
  • Then we get to the middle of May, and fans look up and start to reconsider everything.
  • This annual piece is for those unresolved questions -- the stuff we were pretty sure would happen but still has not (at least not yet).

Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.

The Super Bowl ends, and we basically go immediately into the combine, free agency, the trade market and the draft -- one right after the other.

Then we get to the middle of May, and fans look up and start to reconsider everything. "Wait, wasn't my favorite team supposed to address wide receiver?" ... "Hold on, wasn't this guy supposed to get a new contract?"

This annual piece is for those unresolved questions -- the stuff we were pretty sure would happen but still has not (at least not yet). Some of those questions have answers, and we have endeavored here to provide some reasoning to 10 of them. Let's start with a team that traded or cut basically everyone amid a transition ... except for its star running back?

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