NFL Free Agency Has Officially Arrived. Here's A Round Up Of The Most Notable Signings And Trades So Far
It's that glorious time of year again, NFL free agency, aka the season where franchises spend irresponsibly and fans either crown themselves offseason champs or spiral into an existential crisis before the draft even kicks off.
NFL Free agency is officially two days deep into the annual spending spree. The "legal tampering" period kicked off on March 10th. A hilarious name for the part of free agency where everyone pretends they're not breaking the rules, allowing teams and agents to talk behind closed doors like they're swapping trade secrets at a cigar bar.
Things became official at 4 p.m. yesterday, marking the official start of the 2025 league year- a moment when all those sneaky handshake deals finally get put to paper, and team fan bases either immediately celebrate or instantly regret their life choices.
The good part, is that this is a brutal stretch of sports calendar landscape, perhaps the worst.
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Dog days of the NBA. Pre-NHL Playoffs, and the NCAA tournament hasn't begun yet.
So anything NFL related, even news about potential signings, is welcomed.
Thankfully, the NFL hot stove has been on fucking fire the past few weeks and I am going to do a round up of sorts here in this ol' blog to highlight some of the most notable ones. As well as the biggest head scratchers.
First up, we've got quarterbacks switching teams.
Justin Fields is now a Jet (two years, $40M), which sounds perfect if you enjoy watching quarterbacks run for their lives behind Swiss cheese offensive lines. (Will Justin Fields ever learn? Probably not. Poor guy has been running for his life up until last season. He landed in an organization that actually has its shit together, with a competent coaching staff, a competent ownership group and front office, and most importantly, a decent offensive line- (Rookie center Zach Frazier, who took over as the starter following Nate Herbig's season-ending injury, earned a PFF overall grade of 77.9, ranking sixth among centers.))
Then we have teams like Seattle, signing Sam Darnold for elite QB money in the boldest "we've learned absolutely nothing" move of the decade. Why roll the dice on a fresh start when you can overpay for mediocrity?
Sam Darnold pulled off the heist of the century- three years, $100.5M from Seattle.
In the most Raiders move ever, Geno Smith landed back with Pete Carroll and them, in exchange for a third-round pick, proving some people just can't quit their exes.
Meanwhile, Daniel Jones found a new home with the Colts (one year, $14M), essentially a one-year rental while Indy prays Anthony Richardson figures it the fuck out.
All while the Jets do more J-E-S-T, Jest, Jest, Jest things and plan to cut Aaron Rodgers and taking a bath cap wise in the process.
But moving on…
At wide receiver, the Rams landed Davante Adams (two years, $46M) to potentially replace Cooper Kupp, who’s currently up for sale like an old sofa on Craigslist.
The Ravens snagged DeAndre Hopkins for pennies (one year, $5M), which either means Baltimore is brilliant or Hopkins' knees are about as reliable as President Trump when he says he'll release the JFK Files "on day one".
Speaking of questionable decisions, the Chargers re-upped with Khalil Mack (one year, $18M), choosing grandpa over Joey Bosa, who promptly cashed a $12.6M check with the Bills.
Mack might be aging, but watching him flatten quarterbacks will never get old. Would have loved to see him return to Chicago.
The Bears, finally realizing protecting your franchise QB isn't optional, traded for two guards (Joe Thuney and Jonah Jackson) and signed center Drew Dalman (three years, $42M). For Bears fans, that’s like finally buying car insurance after totaling your brand new car.
The Commanders woke up and chose violence, landing OT Laremy Tunsil and DT Javon Kinlaw, then casually stealing WR Deebo Samuel from San Francisco.
Jayden Daniels is officially sleeping better tonight, probably planning out what he's going to wear to Disneyland next February.
If this team can find a way to play defense, then they will be scary this year.
On defense, Detroit made arguably the steal of the offseason, picking up CB D.J. Reed (three years, $48M) at a price that should get their GM Brad Holmes arrested for theft.
Meanwhile, the Patriots reunited Harold Landry with Mike Vrabel to juice up a pass rush as lifeless as a Bill Belichick presser. (Which are being missed back in Foxboro.)
And the Dallas Cowboys have done absolutely nothing per usual.
Here's the rest of what's transpired-
p.s. - how is this guy still in the league?