Dysin Mayo
Mayo enters this offseason as an unconfirmed roster piece: the most recent official record found (Puckpedia, checked this week) lists him as an unrestricted free agent whose one-year, $775,000 two-way deal with Columbus expired at the end of the 2025-26 season, and no current reporting was found confirming a new contract with the Blue Jackets or a spot on their 2026-27 training camp roster.
Role
No confirmed role can be reported. A May 6, 2026 Columbus Blue Jackets team article (NHL.com) listed Mayo among the club's own "depth free agents (UFA)" heading into the offseason, and no subsequent signing, PTO, or camp-roster listing for Mayo with Columbus turned up in the sources checked. Last season he appeared in only three NHL games for Columbus before being sent to AHL Cleveland in mid-January 2026 (Cleveland Monsters team site, January 15, 2026), so even his most recent NHL role was a depth/replacement one rather than a regular lineup spot.
Mayo is a right-shot, 6-foot-2 veteran defenseman with NHL experience across three seasons (parts of 2021-23 with Arizona and 2025-26 with Columbus), which gives him depth-call value if a team's blue line is thin at camp; teams sometimes re-sign such depth defensemen on late, unannounced two-way deals that would not yet show up in the sources checked.
Per the official record found, his last contract expired and he was a free agent as of the checks done for this report; last season he could not hold an NHL job in Columbus, playing just three games there before being sent to the AHL, and there is no reporting confirming he has a contract, a training camp invite, or any depth-chart mention with the Blue Jackets or any other club for 2026-27.
Where analysts split
There is no visible analyst debate here because there is no current reporting on this player at all: the open question is simply whether Dysin Mayo is on an NHL roster anywhere for 2026-27, and that has not been confirmed by any source checked.
Research confidence: none. Outlooks are grounded in web search over current reporting and refreshed through the season.
Others at D
Fantasy Memo reads your league and answers that every Monday, and checks your lineup on the days you play.
Connect your league: 14 days free