NFL Free Agent Reaction

Thanks To The NFL Salary Gap Rising Some Savvy Accounting Voodoo and That Vaunted Franchise Tag NFL Free Agency Rarely Lives Up To The Game-Changing Hype All The Top 100 “Free Agent” List Tend To Generate ArounD this Time. One Position Always Seems To Bring The Noise And Shift The Tone For The Market and receivers. Every Season Since The De’andre Hopkins Trade Receivers Have to Create Tremors Like Those Worms In The Movie “Tremors”. The Market At The Position Constantly Resets And A Number One Guy For A Team Always Wants Out Of Their Current Situation. A couple Of Edge Rushers Who Were Proposed Trade Targets Made Some Noise With New Market Changing Contract Extensions. The Franchise Tag has taken a few of the top guys at wide receiver and guard off the board, but restructures and cuts have opened up rooms for other teams who didn’t look like top players to join the board. M

Myles Garrett: The Cleveland Browns and star pass rusher Myles Garrett agreed to terms on a new four-year deal averaging $40 million per year and including $123 million guaranteed. Since The Browns Drafted Garrett Number One Overall In 2017 The Edge Rusher Out Of Texas A&M Has Lived Up To Even The Loftiest Expectations. Garrett Has Amassed 102.5 Sacks In Eight Years, He’s Won Defensive Player Of The Year, Finished With Double Digits Sacks For Seven Straight Season, And Landed Top Ten In Pass Rush Win Rate for Two Straight Seasons. Garrett’s The Best Number Pick Of The Last Decade And He’s The First non-quarterback To Pass Into That $40 Million AVV Mark. His Contract However Gives The Brown Two Players With A 40 Million Or Better AvV And Whiles Garrett’s Status With The Team Look Tenuous Deshaun Watson’s Status Looks Over. Extending Garrett Means The Browns Believe That They Have A Contender Ready To Rumble With The Rest Of The AFC. The Team Can Still Trade Him But The Compensation Would Proven Lessened Now That They Gave $213 Million.  

Maxx Grosby: The Raiders Signed Edge Rusher Maxx Grosby To An Extension Worth three-year, $106 million extension, $35.5 Million AVV, the Previous highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. Grosby Threatened To Leave The Team Last Season If The Team

They didn’t Retain The Interim and Now Fired Head Coach Antonio Pierce, Before Struggling This Season With Injuries and Settling For One Of The Lowest Sack Productions In History. The Raiders Finished With The 19th Ranked Defense, One Of The Best Numbers For A Team In The Top 10 Of The Draft. Grosby Looks Like A Trade Candidate Say The Raiders Decide To Empty The Shelf and Recreate The Team. Instead, The Raiders Double On A Status Quo, And With A New Quarterback In Geno Smith Let's See Where The Franchise Sets Sail.

The Sea Hawks's Offense Will be Nearly Unrecognizable Next Season After The Team Cht Long Tenured Receiver Tyler Lockett and Traded Both Starting Quarterback Geno Smith And Number One Receiver DK Metcalf To The Raiders and Steelers respectively. With Smith Now Plugged as The Starter The Raiders Will Start Their Third Straight Season With A Different Starting Quarterback After Letting Go Of Derek Carr In 2022. The Raiders Offense Doesn't Have The Same Level Of Fire Power Geno Smith Played With Last Season With Seattle But Jakobi Meyers And Brock Bowers Present Solid Options The Raiders Have To Upgrade The Skill position Especially. Geno Smith Still Ranks As A Plus Quarterback Having ThrowN for 4000 Plus Yards Twice In His Three Years In Seattle But How Far Can He Stretch His Abilities Coming Off A Year In Which He Ranked 21st In QBr? The Seahawks also Traded Receiver DK Metcalf Who After Six Seasons Requested Out Of Seattle And landed In Pittsburgh. The Seahawks Initially  Wmated A First Minimum For The Star But Settled For Second Instead. With DK the Steelers Have A Trusted Number One Threat On The Outside Even If DK Disappeared “At Time” Last Season In Seattle He’s Got A Proven Track Record. The Steelers Have George Pickens Plugged As Their Number Receiver But The Former Second Pick Out Of Georgia Pickens Has Proven He Plays Mercurial And Disappeared Down The Stretch For Pittsburgh's Last Season. Who Will Attempt and Complete(Hopefully) To DK Metcalf? The Steelers' Options Shrunk Considerably As Monday’s Transactions Shot Through The Presses On Monday.

After His Jets Release Davante Adams Made His Interest To Relocate To The West Coast Clear and He Joins The Rams on a two-year, $44 million deal With $27 Million Guaranteed. Over His Last Two Stop In Vegas and New York Adams Hasn’t Shown The Same Level Of Motor That Made Him The League’s Number Receiver For Several Years With The Packers but at 32 He Still Has The Chops To Attack Defense Threaten Across The Field and Dismantle Defensive Game Plans. The Rams Worked To Retain Matthew Stafford At Quarterback and already Have Puka Nacua Entrenched As The Team’s Number One Receiver With Adams On Board The Offense Has The Capacity To Compete With the Eagles, Lions, and Commanders In The NFC.

The Top Of The Wide Receiver Market Cleared Away Pretty Quickly As The Bucs Inked Chris Godwin, Who Also Seems To Get Injured In Contract Years, To a Three-year $66 million, 22 Million Per Season, $44 Million Guaranteed. Godwin reportedly left $20 million on the table to return to Tampa Bay Which Seems True and Untrue At The same Time. Godwin Finished Top 20 In EpA Per Target After Just Seven Games and While $ 22 Million Per Season Falls Gracefully Below The $ 30 Million Receivers Of Godwin’s Caliber Go For On The Open Market Staying In Florida, Which He Could’ve Done In Jacksonville(maybe) But For Around The Same Price, Helps Godwin In Terms Of Taxes And Other Income Vagaries.

Justin Fields Signed With The Jets Blowing Pass Any Favorable Contract Projection Nabbing A Two Year Deal With The Jets For $40 Million, $30 Million Guaranteed. The Former Bears and part-time Steelers Starter Will Takeover The Next Run On The Jets Mary Go Round At Quarterback. The Deal Looks Favorable For Both sides And Problematic. Fields Needed A Team To Commit To Him As A Starter Not “In THE mix Or Competition” or “A part Of The Team’s Future” " but The Guy He’s Got At Least A Full Year To Make Good On What He’s Worked On. The Jets Organization Doesn’t Have The Strongest Pedigree With Developing Quarterbacks and Not Too Mention That Behind Garrett Wilson The Roster Lacks Considerable Fire Power And Armory And That Needs To Upgrade. The Tight End Position Lacks Talent and Depth and At Runningback Breece Hall Just Came Off Of His Worse Year As A Pro in Effectiveness.

The Seahawks Replaced Geno Smith With The Next Man Up In Quarterback Reclamation Projects As Seattle Lands Adam Darnold On A Three Year $100 Million Deal with $55 Million Guaranteed A Deal Most Believe Geno Smith Wanted But The Seahawks Rewarded The Younger Darnold. Darnold Played In One Of The Best Offensive Structure In Minnesota Last Year And Now He’ll Play In One Influx In Seattle. One Thing That Won't Change, Is Protection, The Vikings Struggled To Protect Darnold Who Thrive By Holding The Ball Long And Looking Deep Leading The League In Complete Deep Passes, Deep Yards, and Deep Touchdowns. Seattle’s Offensive Line Gave Up The Highest Percentage Of Quick Pressures 18.1% According To Next Gen Stars. Darnold Also won't Have A Nuclear Threat Level Talent Like Justin Jefferson. Jaxson Smith Njigba Just Came Off Of His Best Season As A Pro But He’s Not Jefferson and He’s Closer But Ahead Of What We’ve Seen From Jordan Addison Thus Far. The Argument Against Darnold Stand That We’ve Only Witnessed One Premier Season From The Former Top Five Pick. Darnold’s Numbers Last Season Rivaled MVP Caliber's Numbers And Before Seattle Signed Geno Smith A Quarterback Who’s Seven Year Older Than Darnold and Spent Time Out Of The League Entirely He Only Had One “Good” Season As Well Which Didn’t Include 4000 Yards Just Yet Before Seattle Strapped An Extension To Him. For Darnold His New Digs In Seattle Feels Closer To His Tenure With The Jets More Than His Stay In Minnesota.  

Colts Sign Daniel Jones To A One Year $14 Million Deal To Compete With Anthony Richardson. This Deal Wins For Both Sides As The Colts Needed A Younger “Bridge” Type Quarterback With “Long Term” Upside With League Experience To Push The Young Anthony Richardson. With Two Years Of League Experience Anthony Richardson’s Still In The Age Group Of The Top Quarterbacks In This Draft But His Second Season In Shane Steichen's Offense Didn’t  Show Richardson Demonstrating Much Of The Promise He Established In His First Go As A Starter. Richardson Produced Some Highlight Deep Throw Moments But Richardson Never Showcased That “Eureka” Moment. Yes, Jones Still Has Upside Left As A Playoff Winning Quarterback, and Outside Of The Offensive Line The Colts Have A Solid Infrastructure Of Wide Receivers And A Strong Running back Jonathan Taylor  To Alleviate Pressure On Jones As A Passer. Richardson Still Has The Stronger upside and A Player Of Jones’s Caliber Would’ve Made More Sense Two Years Ago Before The Colts Committed To Richardson. Benching Richardson At Any Point Next Season Could Prove The Death Knell For Richardson’s Colts Tenure.