Front Office Scheme Bolstered by Ability to Trade Compensatory Picks
On Friday, February 23 the NFL released its annual list of compensatory picks for the draft on April 26th (see here). Thirty-two draft picks were awarded to fifteen teams, with the Bengals, Cowboys,...
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Michael Thomas’ Contract Negotiations: How the Franchise Tag and Rookie Wage...
Michael Thomas and the New Orleans Saints are about four million apart on average per year according to Jeff Duncan from NOLA.com. Thomas and his representation team led by Andrew Kessler of Athletes...
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A look at the NFL Tight End Market and Potential Market Movers
Per my recent article on the NFL Cornerback Market, several NFL positional groups have experienced robust growth over the last 5 years. This growth can be attributed to star players maximizing their...
View ArticleLooking at the Next Stage of NFL Free Agency
Free agency is just about a full week in now and this is about the time that we get the first market reset as the money dries up and teams and agents have to re-evaluate their plan for the upcoming...
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Week 1 Free Agency Thoughts
It has only been a week since the start of the NFL’s version of the free market and already many teams have reached their pinnacle in spending for the season. Through the first week of free agency,...
View ArticleTop Remaining Free Agents on Offense
Now that we are into the post June 1 period in the NFL and teams begin to prepare a bit more for camps I wanted to take a quick look at the top free agents still available this summer. Even though...
View ArticleTop Remaining Free Agents on Defense
I took a look at the top 10 available offensive players the other day and wanted to look at the defense. The defense is a much larger group so I made my choices for the top 20 but probably could have...
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The Most Popular Positions in Free Agency
With the start of free agency a few weeks away I thought it would be interesting to go back and look at what positions are usually big movers in free agency and which ones are not. To do this I went...
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NFL Team Spending In Free Agency
In yesterday’s post on free agency I looked at the availability and amount spent on players by position. Today I am going to turn my attention to what teams have spent on free agents and what is the...
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Free Agents Signings by Age
Continuing our look at free agent signings I thought I would take a look at signings by age for players who switched teams this year. The average age of a free agent signing was 28.65 years old (for...
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