{"id":13597,"date":"2025-07-16T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13597\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T07:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:03:04","slug":"three-teams-pursuing-fa-olb-von-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13597\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Teams Pursuing FA OLB Von Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Von Miller<\/a>\u2018s Hall of Fame career is on pause after 14 seasons. The Bills moved on from his six-year contract after<\/a> paying out the deal\u2019s guarantees, swapping out the aging edge rusher for Joey Bosa<\/a>. Miller has indicated he wants to play a 15th season, but he has remained in free agency for four months.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some movement looks to have taken place in this market. Miller has \u201cthree very interested teams,\u201d according to NFL Network\u2019s Brian Baldinger (via Pro Football Talk\u2019s Charean Williams<\/a>).<\/p>\n

At least, that\u2019s what Baldinger heard from his former Duke teammate and Miller\u2019s agent, Joby Branion. Prior to this, there have been virtually no reports of interest from any specific teams. The only update has been Miller throwing cold water on a potential reunion<\/a> with the Broncos due to the presence of younger edge rushers.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for the delay is likely Miller himself.\u00a0Baldinger also said that the 36-year-old linebacker was not \u201ctoo crazy about going to training camp\u2026Most guys that age aren\u2019t.\u201d If Miller didn\u2019t want to attend practices until later in the summer, he wouldn\u2019t want to sign before mandatory minicamp and incur fines for not showing up.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s also possible that this game of telephone about Miller\u2019s \u201cvery interested teams\u201d is an attempt by Branion to improve the offers from those teams as training camp approaches. As it stands, Miller could be looking at one-year, incentive-laden offers for the lowest base APY and guarantees in his career. He\u2019s missed 15 games in the last three years, though his four absences in 2024 were due to suspension, not injury. He had spurts of productivity in Buffalo, but he was a non-factor for virtually the entire 2023 season.<\/p>\n

Baldinger expects Miller to decide on a team soon, but added that he did not know which specific teams Miller was considering. Miller is sitting on 129.5 career sacks. In the sack era (1982-present), that ranks 16th. Miller\u2019s Broncos and Rams contributions all but assured him future Canton entry, but the former Super Bowl MVP can move into the top 12 with 6.5 more sacks. He can reach the top 10 with eight.<\/p>\n

A role as a rotational rusher will likely be in the cards if\/once Miller joins a new team. Other standout edge rushers have thrived in such late-career roles. A contending team bringing Miller in as a missing piece makes sense, and if the 36-year-old vet indeed waits until training camps wrap, injury situations could accelerate this market. But it sounds like Miller is willing to wait a bit longer before committing to a 2025 destination.<\/p>\n

Sam Robinson contributed to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Von Miller\u2018s Hall of Fame career is on pause after 14 seasons. The Bills moved on from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99,13154],"class_list":["post-13597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-von-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}