The Miami Dolphins agreed to a trade Monday to acquire Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Julius Thomas for a 2017 seventh-round draft pick, a source told ESPN’s Adam Caplan, confirming multiple reports.

In a separate deal, the Jaguars acquired Dolphins left tackle Branden Albert for a 2018 seventh-round pick, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

If both players pass physicals and neither team reconsiders, the deals will be officially announced on or shortly after March 9 at 4 p.m. ET, the start of the new NFL year.

Thomas also will restructure his contract upon completion of the trade. He is expected to be in Miami on Tuesday to meet with the Dolphins.

Both teams were in heavy trade talks throughout the past week. The initial scenario, according to sources, was to swap Albert for Thomas. Albert was in Jacksonville on Monday to take a physical and will meet with the Jaguars sometime this week.

With the acquisition of Thomas, Miami has filled a major need at tight end. Former starters Jordan Cameron and Dion Sims suffered through injuries and inconsistency, and both will be unrestricted free agents in March.

Thomas also is familiar with Dolphins coach Adam Gase’s system as both were with the Denver Broncos. Thomas recorded 108 receptions for 1,277 yards and 24 touchdowns during a two-year stretch with Gase as Denver’s offensive coordinator in 2013-14.

Jen Welter, who made NFL history when the Arizona Cardinals hired her in 2015 as an assistant coaching intern for training camp and the preseason, has been named the head coach of Team Australia for the 2017 IFAF Women’s World Championship.

Gridiron Australia made the announcement Monday that Welter, believed to be the first female coach of any kind in the NFL, will helm the Australian Outback’s first women’s national team at the tackle football competition, which is held every four years.

Welter was a member of the U.S. team that won the gold medal at the IFAF Women’s World Championship in 2010 and 2013.

“In 2010, I had the opportunity to represent Team USA in the inaugural Women’s World Championship. … We committed to not only winning a gold medal but also to being International Ambassadors for the game of American Football,” Welter said in statement released by Gridiron Australia. “I am honoured to uphold this promise by assuming the Head Coaching role of Team Australia. … Additionally, I hope other teams will follow suit and continue to open doors and expand the roles of women in football and sport as a whole.”

Welter worked with the Cardinals’ inside linebackers during the 2015 training camp and preseason but has not coached in the NFL since, although it put her on the map as a pioneer for women in sports and made her the face of women’s football.

Welter previously became the first female coach in a men’s professional football league when she was hired by the Texas Revolution of the Champions Indoor Football league to coach linebackers and special teams in February 2015.

In February 2014, she became the first female to play a nonkicking position in a men’s professional football league when she played running back and special teams for the Revolution.

Welter played professional football for more than 14 years as a linebacker, mostly with the Dallas Diamonds of the Women’s Football Alliance, which she rejoined after her stint in the NFL. She helped lead them to four championships.

She also has a doctorate in psychology.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers will add a quarterback to their roster this offseason. In fact, odds are that they’ll bring in more than one new quarterback in what could be a complete makeover at the position.

But just because the Niners will be adding a quarterback or three in the weeks to come doesn’t necessarily mean they will be adding the quarterback they seek to lead the franchise for the next decade or so.

After hiring coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch, one of the 49ers’ top priorities has been how they will go about finding a solution for the long term at the game’s most important position. With Colin Kaepernick likely to opt out of his contract in early March and the three other quarterbacks on the roster set to become free agents, there will be changes, that much is certain.

What isn’t certain is where Shanahan and Lynch will be able to find their man. As is always the case, franchise quarterbacks don’t grow on trees and teams aren’t in a hurry to let the ones that are qualified walk away. In fact, Shanahan has said he believes there’s only about seven surefire answers in the world.

“You’re always looking for one of those seven throwers on the planet, whatever that number is,” Shanahan said. “But I’m guessing there’s only around seven, so you’d better not be set on that and say, ‘Hey, I need one of those seven guys.’ I hope we get one of those guys, but if you don’t, you’ve got to find other ways to win.”

That’s something Shanahan knows plenty about. His resume is filled with quarterbacks of all different playing styles — Robert Griffin III, Brian Hoyer, Matt Ryan, Matt Schaub, to name a few — who have enjoyed some of their greatest NFL success under his guidance. From that group, only Ryan would presumably qualify for Shanahan’s version of the magnificent seven.

TEMPE, Ariz. — There’s not a day that goes by that Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim doesn’t think about his team’s quarterback — both in the current and future forms.

Keim knows that, sooner rather than later, he’ll have to find a long-term replacement for quarterback Carson Palmer, who’ll start next season at 37 years old and finish it at 38. Palmer, who announced earlier this month that he will return for the 2017 season, hasn’t indicated one way or another what he plans to do in 2018. And therein lies Keim’s focus.

“I’ve said this many times: To put this organization in a position to have success for a long time, there’s no doubt that we have to identify a franchise quarterback,” Keim said on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM.

Coach Bruce Arians said after last season that one of the Cardinals’ priorities this offseason is to find Palmer’s successor so the franchise won’t be left in the position it was after Kurt Warner retired following the 2009 season. Then, the franchise went through a carousel of quarterbacks while it tried to find a long-term solution. It didn’t, and the team suffered, going 18-30 with six quarterbacks from 2010 to 2012.

Arizona has seen what stability at quarterback can do to a team.

From 2007 to 2009, with Warner starting the majority of the games, the Cardinals went 27-21 and played in Super Bowl XLIII. From 2013 to 2016, with Carson Palmer as the team’s starting QB, Arizona has gone 41-22-1, making the playoffs in 2014 and 2015, when it advanced to the NFC Championship Game. The Cardinals know — maybe all too well — how stability can be a cornerstone for success.

But, as Keim also said, finding that type of quarterback is easier said than done.

“There are probably seven great quarterbacks, 10 you can win with in the NFL, and then everybody else is playing musical chairs,” Keim said. “We have to challenge ourselves as evaluators, as coaches, as an organization to find the next guy.

“The way I’ve evaluated players for 19 years, when you look at players at that position, for me, the great ones, I feel like you know. The other ones, I feel like it’s a projection, and you’re hoping they can pan out.”

Therein lies another issue for Keim.

The Cardinals own the 13th pick in the first round of this year’s draft, typically prime real estate for a franchise to find a quarterback of the future. But Keim said unless a team is convinced a quarterback is, without a doubt, capable of being a franchise quarterback, there’s a hesitation to draft one in the first round.

“Now, all of a sudden, if you miss on him — which looking at statistics, there’s a great chance of missing on a quarterback — it sets the organization back two, three, four years because you have to give that place a chance to succeed, and it’s going to take time, and while that’s taking time, you’re losing football games.”