Everything we heard and buzz from 2024 NFL owners meetings

ORLANDO — The NFL concluded the league’s annual meetings Tuesday, with significant news coming out of Orlando on subjects, including a major change to kickoff rules, a ban of the controversial “hip drop” tackle, the addition of Wednesday Christmas Day games in 2024 and an alteration to the timing of the trade deadline.

The three-day event also included numerous owners, general managers and coaches discussing the makeup of their teams and answering the most pressing questions in this period between free agency and the draft, and more than 20 ESPN reporters were on the scene to collect the highlights:

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The latest first-round QB buzz

Anybody who tells you they know how the quarterbacks are going off the board at the top of the draft is lying, but here’s some of the scuttlebutt I picked up in the Ritz-Carlton hallways: People still seem convinced the Chicago Bears will take Caleb Williams first overall, though it’s worth mentioning that he still hasn’t taken his pre-draft visit with them (GM Ryan Poles said that would be next week), he didn’t do medicals at the combine and they aren’t going to draft him without giving him a physical.

The Washington Commanders are still going through their process at No. 2 and being tight-lipped about it. Some people think they’ll take Jayden Daniels, others think Drake Maye, but I don’t think Washington even knows for sure yet. The New England Patriots at No. 3 are a mystery but open to trading down if they aren’t in love with whichever quarterback is there at No. 3.

The Minnesota Vikings and the Las Vegas Raiders both seem very eager to trade up, and it sounds like there could be a competition between those two, especially if Daniels is still there at No. 3 and the Patriots decide not to take him. A lot of…