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Quarterback Quinn Ewers has lined up another pre-draft visit.

John Hendrix of Athlon Sports reports that Ewers will visit the Saints. Last week brought word of visits with the Colts, Raiders, and Cowboys. Ewers's visit with the Saints is expected to take place in mid-April.

Saints head coach Kellen Moore called himself "a quarterback guy" when speaking to reporters about adding one in the draft at the league meetings this week. Derek Carr is set to return as the starter in New Orleans while Spencer Rattler is back in a reserve role.

Ewers was 293-of-445 for 3,472 yards with 31 touchdowns and 12 interceptions during his final season at Texas.

The NFL will be playing a Week One game in Brazil again this year and it looks like the AFC champions are likely to be involved in it.

TheAthletic.com reports that the Chiefs are the favorite to be selected as the designated road team for the September 5 game in Sao Paulo. The league already announced that the Chargers will be the designated home team for the game.

“On playing international games, we’re willing to do it whenever the opportunity presents itself,” Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said this week. “We don’t have a lot of control over that, except periodically with whatever the rotation of the league is at where we can be the home team. We make the league aware every year that we would be delighted to play, whether as a home team or as an away team. We hope, at some point, we’ll get picked back up.”

The Chiefs' list of standalone games in 2025 will likely include a Christmas contest as well. Per the report, the Chiefs are expected to play on Christmas for the third straight year and they have requested that the NFL make them a fixture on the holiday the same way that the Cowboys and Lions are annual participants in Thanksgiving games.

The league is set to have three games on Christmas this year and the 2025 season will include seven total international games.

The Falcons are waiting for an opportunity to trade quarterback Kirk Cousins. Cousins is waiting until after the draft to decide whether he'll waive his no-trade clause.

In four weeks, we'll all know whether one or more teams will still be looking for a starting quarterback. At this point, however, the universe seems to be fairly small. It consists of two possibilities: the Steelers and the Browns.

The Titans possibly could join that mix, if they trade the first overall pick and don't draft quarterback Cam Ward. (There's still a chance that will happen, in part because the Titans in recent years have done some unconventional things.) For now, though, it's Cleveland or Pittsburgh for Cousins.

So which one would want him? To the extent the Steelers witnessed his post-Achilles struggles in Week 1 last year, they might not be thrilled about casting their lot with a player who has lost the footrace with Father Time. (Especially since they did precisely that a year ago.) But if Aaron Rodgers doesn't sign (and he still has his arm, despite his advanced age), the Steelers will be stuck.

The Browns make more sense than the Steelers, for a couple of reasons. First, coach Kevin Stefanski spent two years with Cousins in Minnesota. And Stefanski parlayed a final-eight season from Cousins into the job Stefanski now has. Second, Cousins has a low salary for a veteran starter — and the Browns could instantly restructure his $27.5 million, creating nearly $21 million in cap space.

Cousins also could decide to play the waiting game. If/when a starter elsewhere gets injured, he could waive his no-trade clause and rush to the rescue. In the interim, he'd be getting paid his full salary from the Falcons.

There's still a chance Cousins will simply be a highly paid understudy to Michael Penix Jr., and that the Falcons will cut Cousins after the 2025 season. The final pieces won't begin to fall into place until later this month, once the picks have been made and the depth charts come into far greater focus.

For now, Steelers, Browns, Falcons seem to be the top (and perhaps only) options.