Meet the latest additions to Forbes’ ranking of America’s richest people.

By Sarah Young, Contributor

It got harder to make The Forbes 400 ranking of America’s richest people this year, with the minimum net worth required to make the list hitting a record-tying $2.9 billion. Yet, despite the high bar, 18 people amassed fortunes big enough to earn a spot among this elite group for the first time.

The most famous face to join the 400 this year: Michael Jordan, the first pro athlete ever to appear in these ranks. The basketball great earned some $90 million over his playing career, but it’s his off-court moves that land him among the wealthiest Americans. For decades he has gotten a cut of every Jordan-branded sneaker, shirt or sock Nike sells—enough to bring him $260 million in estimated (pretax) income over the past year alone. Big bucks have also come from the Charlotte Hornets. In August, Jordan sold a majority stake in the NBA team at a $3 billion valuation, 17 times what it was worth when he became lead owner in 2010.

The richest of all newcomers is Elisabeth DeLuca (worth an estimated $8.2 billion), widow of Subway founder Fred DeLuca (d. 2015). In August, private equity firm Roark Capital struck a deal to acquire the sandwich giant in a deal reported to be worth more than $9 billion—which could put an estimated $3.4 billion after taxes into the pockets of DeLuca, who inherited half the business upon her husband’s 2015 death, according to Forbes’ reporting.

The youngest newcomer this year is 38-year-old Josh Kushner. The son of real estate developer Charles Kushner and younger brother of Jared Kushner, who served as senior advisor to his father-in-law President Donald Trump, he’s the first member of his clan to make The Forbes 400. For that, he can thank Thrive Capital, the venture capital firm he founded in 2010 at age 25. An early backer of startups like Instagram, Spotify and Slack, Thrive raised $175 million in January at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Seven of this year’s new Forbes 400 listees hail from the world of finance and investments, the most of any industry. Besides Kushner, there are Seth Boro, Scott Crabill and Holden Spaht – three partners of private equity firm Thoma Bravo, who are worth an estimated $3.3 billion apiece; investor Rajiv Jain ($3.1 billion), who made a gutsy gamble on Adani Group in March; early Berkshire Hathaway backer Stewart Horejsi ($3 billion); and insurance magnate J. Hyatt Brown ($2.9 billion).

Others found their fortunes elsewhere. William Goldring ($6 billion) got rich from alcohol; his Sazerac Company owns the Buffalo Trace Distillery and produces Fireball Cinnamon Whisky. Power couple Eren Ozmen ($3.4 billion) and Fatih Ozmen ($3.3 billion) made their money in aerospace. There are now two Forbes 400 members in Mississippi: James and Thomas Duff ($3 billion each), who co-own tire retailer Southern Tire Mart and own several other businesses through their Duff Capital Investors holding company. Only two newcomers to this year’s list hail from the tech industry: Sanjit Biswas ($3.6 billion) and John Bicket ($3.5 billion) of San Francisco-based software company Samsara, which went public in 2021.

HERE ARE THE 18 NEW MEMBERS OF THE FORBES 400

NET WORTHS ARE AS OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Elisabeth DeLuca & family

Net worth: $8.2 billion | Age: 76 | Source of wealth: Subway

The widow of Subway cofounder Fred DeLuca, Elizabeth DeLuca inherited half of the sandwich company upon his death in 2015. In August, Roark Capital agreed to buy the chain in a deal reported to be worth more than $9 billion.

Annette Lerner & family

Net worth: $6.5 billion | Age: 93 | Source of wealth: Real estate

In 1952, she lent her husband, Ted, $250 to create Lerner Enterprises, a D.C.-based real estate company. Following his death in February, Lerner and her children are now credited with his fortune, which includes a portfolio of Washington, D.C.-area real estate and the Washington Nationals baseball team.

William Goldring & family

Net worth: $6 billion | Age: 80 | Source of wealth: Alcohol

The Louisiana-native is the chairman of the Sazerac Company, an alcoholic beverage producer which owns the Buffalo Trace Distillery and the Fireball Cinnamon Whisky brand.

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Sanjit Biswas

Net worth: $3.6 billion | Age: 41 | Source of wealth: Sensor systems

A former teenage engineer at Oracle, his Samsara offers tools like AI dash cams, realtime driver coaching and route mapping for customers such as oil field servicer Liberty Energy, moving company PODS and plumbing giant Roto-Rooter.

Josh Kushner

Net worth: $3.6 billion | Age: 38 | Source of wealth: Venture capital

The youngest newcomer this year, Kushner launched VC firm Thrive Capital in 2010. The son of real estate developer Charles Kushner and brother-in-law of Ivanka Trump, he’s married to supermodel Karlie Kloss.

John Bicket

Net worth: $3.5 billion | Age: 43 | Source of wealth: Sensor systems

He cofounded Samsara alongside Biswas, who he met at MIT as a graduate student in computer science.

Eren Ozmen

Net worth: $3.4 billion | Age: 65 | Source of wealth: Aerospace

Ozmen, a Turkish immigrant, put herself through business school with an office-cleaning job and selling baklava. Her Sierra Space is gearing up to launch Dream Chaser, the only spacecraft now capable of landing on a commercial runway, in the upcoming year.

Seth Boro

Net worth: $3.3 billion | Age: 48 | Source of wealth: Private equity

Scott Crabill

Net worth: $3.3 billion | Age: 53 | Source of wealth: Private equity

Holden Spaht

Net worth: $3.3 billion | Age: 49 | Source of wealth: Private equity

The trio are managing partners at Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm with over $120 billion in assets. Company namesakes Carl Thoma and Orlando Bravo are also members of The Forbes 400.

Fatih Ozmen

Net worth: $3.3 billion | Age: 65 | Source of wealth: Aerospace

Fatih Ozmen is CEO of Sierra Nevada Corporation, which he co-owns with his wife Eren Ozmen.

Rajiv Jain

Net worth: $3.1 billion | Age: 55 | Source of wealth: Finance

After coming to the U.S. from India in the early 1990s for an MBA at the University of Miami, Jain worked at Swiss asset manager Vontobel for nearly 22 years. He cofounded GQG Partners in 2016. The firm, which is listed in Australia, has $107 billion in assets under management. GQG placed a big contrarian bet on embattled Indian conglomerate Adani Group, investing more than $6 billion after a short seller accused the firm of fraud and stock market manipulation in January. (Adani denied the allegations.)

Geoffrey Palmer

Net worth: $3.1 billion | Age: 73 | Source of wealth: Real estate

A Los Angeles-based developer, Palmer made a multibillion-dollar fortune building luxury residential buildings in southern California.

James Duff

Net worth: $3 billion | Age: 62 | Source of wealth: Tires, diversified

Thomas Duff

Net worth: $3 billion | Age: 66 | Source of wealth: Tires, diversified

The Duff brothers run tire retailer Southern Tire Mart, and Duff Capital Investors, whose investments include trucking company KLLM, construction firm T.L. Wallace Construction and energy firm DeepWell Energy Services.

Stewart Horejsi & family

Net worth: $3 billion | Age: 86 | Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway

Using profits from his family’s Kansas-based welding supply company, Horejsi began buying Berkshire Hathaway stock in 1980, when the price was as low as $295 per share. Berkshire’s class A stock now trades north of $500,000.

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Michael Jordan

Net worth: $3 billion | Age: 60 | Source of wealth: Charlotte Hornets, endorsements

The basketball great notched one of the biggest wins of his business career in August, when he sold a majority stake in the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets at a $3 billion valuation, 17 times what it was worth when he became lead owner in 2010. Meanwhile, he’s still cashing royalty checks from every Jordan-branded sneaker, shirt or sock Nike sells—enough to bring him $260 million in estimated (pretax) income over the past year, nearly triple the roughly $90 million he made over his 16-year playing career.

J. Hyatt Brown

Net worth: $2.9 billion | Age: 86 | Source of wealth: Insurance

His Brown & Brown is the fifth largest insurance brokerage in the U.S.. He chairs the firm, which his father cofounded in 1939.

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When Jordan Donica was about 9 or 10 years old, his aunt took him to New York City with one mission: to get the idea of ​​making it on Broadway out of his head. Fortunately, this mission failed spectacularly.
“It was raining and I was dancing the streets of Times Square enjoying every second of it. “My aunt had to tell me to slow down,” he recalls, now a happier New Yorker. “What I love most is here, at its peak – the core from which everything explodes.”
With determination and talent, Donica still hasn’t faltered, earning his first Tony Award nomination for playing the handsome, gallant knight Sir Lancelot in a beautiful revival of the classic musical Camelot at the Lincoln Center Theatre.
“I’m just grateful and that just makes me want to do the work even more. Really. That was the first thought I had: ‘I’m excited to get back to work,'” he says.
Donica’s story is about a man with a huge voice who moved a lot in his youth but always had Broadway as his North Star. Even in middle school, he told friends that he knew what he wanted to do with his life. His first email address contained the words “Broadway Bound”.

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A 2016 graduate of Otterbein University, Donica honed his craft in regional theater, playing Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Weathervane Playhouse in Ohio and was in the ensemble in “South Pacific” at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.
He made his Broadway debut in 2016 as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, which came full circle. As a child he had been in the audience at that New York visit and had been fascinated by the Phantom’s abilities. “I thought, ‘I have to learn to use my voice the way a man uses his voice.’ And that’s what I intend to do.”
Donica has had roles in the television series “Charmed” and “Blue Bloods”, and has also played the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the ensembles of the musical “Hamilton” in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He was the originator of the role of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the Lincoln Center Theater’s 2018 revival of My Fair Lady.
In the lavish, sweeping “Camelot,” he plays a virtuous if selfish knight caught in a love triangle with King Arthur and Guenevere. The story was updated by Aaron Sorkin to focus on the dream of democracy, but Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s songs remain.

Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher cast Donica in both My Fair Lady and Camelot, roles that required the actor to be passionate and sweet in the first role and a cheeky, sword-catching dude in the second.
“You have a wonderful artist on your hands who is able to dive into a role and into a world and deliver very different things in each case,” says Sher. “There’s that kind of connection in his body, that connection to his voice, deep intelligence and endless creativity that makes him so special.”
Donica in “Camelot” first appears almost like a righteous angel on stage – she sings “C’est Moi” with the lyrics “Here I stand as pure as a prayer/Incredably clean with virtue to spare” – but ends the musical very human. what he describes as a sobering yet entertaining journey.
“For me, Camelot is America. And we must fight every day to tell the stories of what freedom is and what America is. Because if we don’t talk about it and put it into action, it doesn’t really exist,” he says.
The role is vocally and physically demanding. He had previously gained 15 pounds and expected to sweat much of it off. He recently visited his physiotherapist, who immediately knew that Donica had lost weight because the settings on the table no longer suited him.
Born in Minnesota, Donica spent his first birthday in Chicago, then moved to Tennessee for eight years and then on to Indiana. He looked at kidz bop and TV commercials with children singing – Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Welch’s juice commercials – and wondered if that was a way.
“I remember as a little kid I saw the kids in those commercials and I turned to my mom and said, ‘I could do that.’ Why don’t I?’” he says. “I don’t think she really thought, I’m that serious. But I think I meant it very seriously.”
He joined a community theater in Indianapolis and attended theater camp where there was once a team building trust activity and Donica was the only one willing to commit and fall back into a stranger’s arms.
“I remember the teacher saying, ‘You will get good results here because you trust,'” he recalls. “The theater world is a safe place. I was taught to trust, which means you will get into a dangerous situation.”
The trip to New York was a test for a boy who loved open fields and disliked crowds. His mother didn’t want to dissuade him, just to make sure he really wanted it. Now she has been invited to see him at the Tony Awards.
On June 11, he will compete against Shucked’s Kevin Cahoon and Alex Newell, Kimberly Akimbo’s Justin Cooley and Some Like It Hot’s Kevin Del Aguila for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical. ”

Donica, who used to watch old Tony ceremonies on YouTube, still can’t imagine him being there. “I don’t think I really believe it anymore because I never really set out to win a Tony Award or anything like that. As a kid, all I dreamed of was performing with the Tonys.”

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NEW YORK — When Jordan Donica was about 9 or 10 years old, his aunt took him to New York City with one mission: to banish the notion of making it on Broadway from his system. Fortunately, this mission failed spectacularly.

“It was raining and I was dancing the streets of Times Square enjoying every second of it. “My aunt had to tell me to slow down,” he recalls, now a happier New Yorker. “What I love most is here, at its peak – the core from which everything explodes.”

With determination and talent, Donica still hasn’t faltered, earning his first Tony Award nomination for playing the handsome, gallant knight Sir Lancelot in a beautiful revival of the classic musical Camelot at the Lincoln Center Theater.

“I’m just grateful and that just makes me want to do the work even more. Really. That was the first thought I had: ‘I’m excited to get back to work,'” he says.

Donica’s story is about a man with a huge voice who moved a lot in his youth but always had Broadway as his North Star. Even in middle school, he told friends that he knew what he wanted to do with his life. His first email address contained the words “Broadway Bound”.

A 2016 graduate of Otterbein University, Donica honed his craft in regional theater, playing Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Weathervane Playhouse in Ohio and was in the ensemble in “South Pacific” at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

He made his Broadway debut in 2016 as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, which came full circle. As a child he had been in the audience at that New York visit and had been fascinated by the Phantom’s abilities. “I thought, ‘I have to learn to use my voice the way a man uses his voice.’ And that’s what I intend to do.”

Donica has had roles in the television series Charmed and Blue Bloods, and has also starred as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the ensembles of the Los Angeles and San Francisco musical Hamilton. He was the originator of the role of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the Lincoln Center Theater’s 2018 revival of My Fair Lady.

In the lavish, sweeping “Camelot,” he plays a virtuous if selfish knight caught in a love triangle with King Arthur and Guenevere. The story was updated by Aaron Sorkin to focus on the dream of democracy, but Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s songs remain.

Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher cast Donica in both My Fair Lady and Camelot, roles that required the actor to be passionate and sweet in the first role and a cheeky, sword-catching dude in the second.

“You have a wonderful artist on your hands who is able to dive into a role and into a world and deliver very different things in each case,” says Sher. “There’s that kind of connection in his body, that connection to his voice, deep intelligence and endless creativity that makes him so special.”

Donica in “Camelot” first appears almost like a righteous angel on stage – she sings “C’est Moi” with the lyrics “Here I stand as pure as a prayer/Incredably clean with virtue to spare” – but ends the musical very human. what he describes as a sobering yet entertaining journey.

“For me, Camelot is America. And we must fight every day to tell the stories of what freedom is and what America is. Because if we don’t talk about it and put it into action, it doesn’t really exist,” he says.

The role is vocally and physically demanding. He had previously gained 15 pounds and expected to sweat much of it off. He recently visited his physiotherapist, who immediately knew that Donica had lost weight because the settings on the table no longer suited him.

Born in Minnesota, Donica spent his first birthday in Chicago, then moved to Tennessee for eight years and then on to Indiana. He looked at kidz bop and TV commercials with children singing – Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Welch’s juice commercials – and wondered if that was a way.

“I remember as a little kid I saw the kids in those commercials and I turned to my mom and said, ‘I could do that.’ Why don’t I?’” he says. “I don’t think she really thought, I’m that serious. But I think I meant it very seriously.”

He joined a community theater in Indianapolis and attended theater camp where there was once a team building trust activity and Donica was the only one willing to commit and fall back into a stranger’s arms.

“I remember the teacher saying, ‘You will get good results here because you trust,'” he recalls. “The theater world is a safe place. I was taught to trust, which means you will get into a dangerous situation.”

The trip to New York was a test for a boy who loved open fields and disliked crowds. His mother didn’t want to dissuade him, just to make sure he really wanted it. Now she has been invited to see him at the Tony Awards.

On June 11, he will compete against Shucked’s Kevin Cahoon and Alex Newell, Kimberly Akimbo’s Justin Cooley and Some Like It Hot’s Kevin Del Aguila for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical. ”

Donica, who used to watch old Tony ceremonies on YouTube, still can’t imagine him being there. “I don’t think I really believe it anymore because I never really set out to win a Tony Award or anything like that. As a kid, all I dreamed of was performing with the Tonys.”

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ST. LOUIS — Injury news just keep coming for the Cardinals, who are now down two starters after right-hander Jordan Hicks landed on the 15-day injured list with tightness in his right forearm flexor ahead of St. Louis’ four-game series against the first place brewers.

The good news is Hicks’ move to the IL isn’t thought to be as serious as his prior stints. Hicks first felt soreness in his throwing arm after his previous start on Tuesday. Given the 25-year-old’s extensive injury history and the timetable of the season, the organization elected for a precautionary move.

“(There) was soreness there, more so than the past,” manager Oli Marmol told The Athletic. “Hitting the pause button and not trying to push through this, this early on, makes the most sense.”

To aid the pitching depth, right-handers Kodi Whitley and Jake Woodford were recalled from Triple-A Memphis. In separate moves, right-hander Junior Fernández and catcher Iván Herrera were optioned to Memphis, and Yadier Molina was reinstated from the bereavement list.

Though it’s never timely to lose a starting pitcher to injury, the Cardinals now have a bit more of a cushion in deciding how to proceed with Hicks. The decision to stretch out the right-hander to a starter’s workload at the beginning of the season was a valid one: Hicks had always wanted to start, and the Cardinals were going to be without Jack Flaherty for at least a couple of months, leaving them with a hole to fill in the rotation. Expanded rosters in April enabled extra depth in the bullpen, allowing for the Cardinals to cover Hicks’ short starts as he progressed and built his pitch count up through the month.

However, once the calendar reached May and the Cardinals were forced to drop a pitcher, it became more difficult to cover innings. In an ideal world, Hicks would have continued progressing through May when additional pitching support wouldn’t be needed. While he was able to maximize his pitch count up to a full starter’s workload, he hadn’t been able to demonstrate the type of consistent command where it would be feasible to continue starting him. Over his last three starts, Hicks registered 77, 82 and 78 pitches, yet recorded just five innings, four innings and three innings to match. On Tuesday against the Blue Jays, Hicks struggled to command his fastball and issued four earned runs and five walks in three frames.

“When you evaluate his start and he’s throwing more balls than strikes, or it’s close to 50-50, it’s just hard for him to sustain having any sort of longevity to that,” Marmol said. “It forces us to use our bullpen, and we have several starters that have forced that.”

It’s true that Hicks’ lack of length was magnified by other members of the rotation struggling to cover innings as well. Dakota Hudson has not notched a start longer than five innings since May 3. Steven Matz (left shoulder impingement) remains on the IL and the Cardinals will rely on top pitching prospect Matthew Liberatore to take his place, but Liberatore has made just one major- league start, and the team would certainly like to save some relief arms out of caution for the day he’s scheduled.

Hicks’ future role is up to interpretation. The organization could elect to continue to start him in the rotation upon his return, or return him to a high-leverage role in the bullpen. Those conversations began before Hicks was moved to the IL and will continue to develop in his absence based on what Marmol and president of baseball operations John Mozeliak believe to best suit the club going forward.

“At the end of the day, (the decision) is going to be what’s best for the team, and then for Hicks’ development,” Marmol said. “Then you put everything together and you make a decision. Him going on the IL delays that decision, but at some point, we’re still going to have to figure out what’s best.”

Hicks’ tantalizing pitch arsenal and overpowering triple-digit velocity made him an intriguing starting candidate by nature. His sinker velocity still ranks in MLB’s 99th percentile, and that’s with him tinkering down the velocity in an attempt to last longer through games. Hicks no longer touches the mid-100s on the mound, with his median speed instead hovering around 99 mph, but he can still up the ante and rack up a couple more digits when necessary. However, the velocity isn’t as noteworthy when the command lacks, and that’s the problem that plagued Hicks over his last three starts.

Hicks was considered to be fully built up from a pitch count perspective by mid-May, but the lack of command prohibited him from establishing himself deep in games. He allowed three runs in five innings with two walks and three strikeouts on May 13 against San Francisco — a fine outing, all things considered — and it served as a start the organization believed would provide a solid foundation to build off of. Yet in his next start against the Mets, Hicks threw more balls than strikes and was pulled after four innings. On Tuesday, Hicks couldn’t establish his fastball, leaving his secondary pitches relatively ineffective.

After going through routine testing as he does after every start, Hicks felt more soreness than usual and the decision to rest him for the next two weeks was eventually made. However, Marmol said whether he would have made his next start regardless of what was already being discussed.

“We would have definitely given some serious thought to as far as what’s best for the club, our bullpen and Jordan altogether moving forward,” Marmol said. “I think he’s very clear on the fact that we need him to command the baseball and command his fastball better in order to go deeper into games so our bullpen isn’t getting the usage that they’re getting. … It was definitely something that was up for consideration, if continuing to start him or (moving to) the bullpen was the best option.”

So, what will the Cardinals take into consideration when making a decision? Hicks’ overall health will be the primary factor, especially after he missed the majority of the 2021 season with a right elbow injury. The state of the rotation will also be factored in. Matz remains four to five days from picking up a baseball and participating in throwing activities. Liberatore has a chance to prove he can stay at the big-league level in Matz’s absence. Flaherty, who checked another box in his rehab back from right shoulder bursitis by facing live hitters for the first time on Thursday, still remains at least a couple of weeks away from a rehab assignment.

There is also considerable value in slotting Hicks in the bullpen, where he would presumably be able to unleash his maximum velocity once more. Hicks isn’t necessarily a two-pitch pitcher, as he has been reworking a changeup, but the 1-2 combo of his sinker and slider, especially when the sinker is at its maximum power, profiles well as a high-leverage, late -innings poor. The Cardinals already have a dynamic relief trio in lefty Genesis Cabrera and right-handed weapons Ryan Helsley and Giovanny Gallegos. Adding Hicks to that mix would give St. Louis some of the best relief variety in the league.

At the beginning of the month, the Cardinals boasted one of the most effective bullpens in the league and at one point held the lowest team bullpen ERA in baseball. But the relievers have been taxed of late — leading to a constant reshuffling of arms from the Memphis club — and now the bullpen ERA sits at 3.66, or right around league average. The hope is the current starters can provide more length. If the Cardinals choose to slot Hicks back in the bullpen, he’ll certainly help those numbers as well.

Odds and ends

• The Cardinals have set their rotation for the rest of the weekend series against the Brewers. Hudson will start Friday against Brandon Woodruff, Liberatore will make his first career start at Busch Stadium on Saturday opposite Adrian Houser, and Miles Mikolas will take the finale on Sunday with Milwaukee’s starter to be named. St.Louis will need a starter for Monday. They expect to use Woodford out of the bullpen during the series, which would leave him unavailable for Monday. If that remains the case, plenty of options remain in Triple A for a spot start, including Packy Naughton and Johan Oviedo, who owns a 5.24 ERA over nine games for Memphis, but has allowed just one run in back-to-back starts.

• Tyler O’Neill continues to progress as he rehabs from a right shoulder impingement. The Cardinals are optimistic he can begin a rehab assignment as early as next week.

• Paul DeJong turned in a three-hit day with a home run for Memphis as the former All-Star shortstop looks to rework his swing after being demoted earlier in the month. In 11 Triple-A games, DeJong is hitting .250 with a .672 OPS and 11 strikeouts.

(Photo: Jeff Curry / USA Today)

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Matthews gained about 15 pounds to move to the tight end, reports Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network.

Matthews has appeared in five NFL games in the past two seasons and has been unable to get regular snaps despite playing for teams (Philadelphia, San Francisco) in desperate need of wide receiver help. The 2014 second-round pick started his NFL career with three consecutive 800-yard seasons, but he’s now approaching his 29th birthday (July 16) and doesn’t seem to have a future in the league as a wide receiver. Matthews is hoping to spark some interest with his move to the tight end and he’s already gained 236.5 pounds, about 10-20 less than typical weight for an NFL starter at the position. He is currently a free agent and probably won’t be ready to have a significant close end game at the start of the season. A place on the practice team seems more likely than a place on the squad.

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