Overview

• New England cut the veteran safety days before the Sept. 7 opener, parting ways a year after his 3-year, $24 million extension.
• Peppers wrote on X that he can be effective in any system, pushing back on speculation about his fit as he seeks a new team.
• Vrabel told reporters the move was not about scheme and offered only that there were “a lot of reasons” for the decision.
• He still has roughly $4.3 million guaranteed remaining, according to reporting relayed by ESPN.
• Peppers played six games in 2024 after an October arrest that led to time on the Commissioner’s Exempt List, later pleading guilty to cocaine possession as a jury acquitted him of violent charges.