Of course, the flip side of contact ramping up is that injuries will as well. As a matter of fact, we had the first major injury of camp confirmed on Monday, when a veteran edge-rusher coming off the best season of his career found out that his 2024 campaign is over before it began due to a torn Achilles tendon.

However, the biggest news from training camp continues to surround events that aren’t even taking place on the practice field –the financial kind. One offensive lineman for a Super Bowl contender got his big payday Monday, but a number of big-name NFL players continue to be no-shows (or “hold-ins”) as we move closer to the Hall of Fame Game and the beginning of the preseason.

It’s there we’ll begin Monday’s look around NFL training camps—starting with a star on each side of the ball who are MIA in the Queen City.