Best Remaining NFL Free Agents

Mike takes a look at who's still on the open free agency market at each position, and determines whether or not any of the players are worth kicking the tires on.

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thank you so much for tuning in here. We got
some good stuff to talk about. We're gonna kind of
look forward for the first time. Right we're looking into
where teams can go right now as training camp is

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like less than two weeks away. So what we're going
to do is we're going to go through and we're
going to look at each position's best available free agents,
Like we're going to go look at the quarterback position,
and we're gonna look at the best guy still on
the open market in case there is a team that
just so happens to need that specific position, because we're
not stopping a quarterback. We're going all the way down

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running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, tackles, interior offensive lineman,
so on and so forth. You know, on the defensive
side of the ball as well. So some pretty big names.
A lot of it is more name than game at
this point in people's career, but you never know what
can happen, and you know, some of these signings could
end up being big time as we get close to
free agency and injuries could pop up. Just a quick example,

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last year, the Atlanta Falcons lost DeMarco Hellims, who was
slated to be the starting strong safety next to Jesse Bates,
and Braylan Trice, who was our third round pick. You know,
gonna get a lot of minutes, a lot of reps
as a rookie defensive end. Both of those guys go
down with respective knee injuries. I believe, I know for

(09:50):
sure Braylan tries toward an ACL. I'm pretty sure Helims
did the same thing. Both happened in the preseason, so
we made emergency phone calls to Matthew Judon and Justin Simmons. Now,
at the time, I was extremely excited for these moves.
I thought that they were both, you know, respected veterans. Obviously,
I was a big fan of Justin Simmons during his
time in Denver. I was shocked that he was available

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for as long as he was. He's actually available right now.
He's a name that we'll mention, and so was Matthew Judon,
who the Falcons sign as well. And same thing. You know,
for a team that's so desperate for pass rush, that
hasn't had a pass rush in so long, I was
extremely excited to get approven veteran that's you know, dominated
in Baltimore, that dominated in New England, places that are
known for having respectable defenses, and I was hoping that

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he would bring some of that to the Falcons. And
it's not a slight to him or Justin Simmons. You
know why they didn't pan out, Why they're back on
the open market after just one season. Our scheme, an
our defensive coordinator led by Jimmy Lake, was just atrocious
last year. That's the biggest thing that I'm hoping is
different on the Falcons team this year is just their
willingness to just get bent over and spanked by opposing

(10:57):
offensive coordinators and quarterbacks that have no business toasting us.
But because we kind of just set ourselves up for failure,
it tends to be pretty easy for them. So I
just wanted to give you guys an example just me personally.
I experienced it last year. Other teams experience it every
single season, So just something to kind of prepare for
as we get into this. But let's start at the

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quarterback position, and then let's go through and name some
of the players that we might be hearing getting signed
or seeing getting signed over the course of August. So
we'll look at Carson Wentz, Desmond Ritter, who actually was
signed today by the Cincinnati Bengals as we're recording this
on July twentieth. Speaking of July twentieth, it's my mom's
birthday today, Happy birthday, Mom. It's also my future mother

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in law's birthday, and my cat that I've had for
seven years, it's her seventh birthday today. So yeah, shout
out to all three of the women that have a
birthday today that are in my life, So just wanted
to give a shout out there, but also continuing on here. CJ. Bethard,
Edgie Bridgewater, Jeff Driscoll, Tyler Huntley, Mike White, Ben Denucci,

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and Jaren Hall. Bridgewater obviously has one foot out of
the door with his coaching career. He's actually in a
little bit of a illegal situation because he was funding
out of his own pocket some things for that program.
It's a long story, but I'm not really in on CJ.
Bethart obviously, I'm out on Desmond Ritter, Carson Wentz. If
he's actually playing and starting for you like we saw

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him do last year, I believe for the Kansas City Chiefs,
then you might be in a little bit of a pickle.
But yeah, if you get in a hole and you
don't feel like trading for Kirk Cousins, who also, you know,
is an option for teams that might want to get
a starter late in the year for an injury or
something happens. You could always call the Falcons and make
an offer for Kirk. But you could do what the
Bengals did and take a swing on one of these

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guys if you need a backup. But in terms of
starting Yet none of these guys are going to be
signed to be a starting quarterback, which is why I
think you probably you know, obviously I'm a little bit
biased here, but even as an objective perspective, I would
make a you know, I would take a swing on
Kirk Cousins if I needed a quarterback. But let's move
over to the running back position. Gus Edwards, Jamal Williams,

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Jeff Wilson, Amir Abdullah, Ezekiel Elliott, the Ernest Johnston, Deontay Foreman,
Chase Edmonds, Nahem Hines, Jamichael Hasty, Mike Boone, Joshua Kelly,
John Kelly, Chris Evans, Ellis Merriweather, and ty Davis Price.
And now this one's kind of interesting because obviously a
lot of those names I just mentioned how much tread's

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left on the tires, a lot of them are kind
of up there in age. They've already hit that thirty
that you know, that thirty number. I feel like Jamal
Williams a little bit surprised he didn't follow Ben Johnson
to Chicago, just giving how much money they had. And
I know they have DeAndre Swift, and you know they
actually drafted a running back too, if I'm not mistaken,
but Jamal Williams just seems like he fit well in

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that Ben Johnson offense. He's been around that NFC North
also at a stop in New Orleans, so there's probably
a place where he can, you know, end up finding
finding a good spot. But let's see here, Jeff Wilson,
I wouldn't take a swing I honestly wouldn't take a
swing on really any of these guys. Running back draft
classes are so deep, and if you need someone to

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just give carries, yeah, but you'd have better luck maybe
just pulling someone off your practice squad, maybe going plucking
someone off another team's practice squad. Then maybe trying to
stash a running back or there are some backups with
starter potential if you wanted to take a swing, But
that doesn't happen in today's NFL. So unfortunately, this running
back position definitely a little bit dry. But luckily the

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draft is just the main factory. Whenever you're getting the
running back position, you really don't have to look into
free agency, which is why that position kind of seems
like it's a dying breed right, Like they're not paid
what you would think that they deserve to get paid
given their job that they have and the toll that
it takes on their body and what they have to
do literally carrying the football. But teams look at it

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as if once you hit that thirty or that thirty number,
you get close. It's like, I mean, immediately as soon
as you can in the league. They're looking at that
clock is ticking and they're wondering, how long do we
got with this guy? As soon as you start to
you know, regress or once you command a salary, which is,
you know, ultimately what you're trying to do is get paid.
In the NFL, once your salary ends up reaching a
certain point, it becomes no longer worth it, and they

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look at other premium positions like tackle, cornerback, you know,
edge rusher, positions that really are important and critical that
aren't as easy to find, Like you can't find edge
rushers that grow on trees like you might be able
to in the running back position. So the fact that
once they hit free agency, teams aren't spending a lot
of money. So if you see a list of like

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twenty names like we just named off here, probably close
to like twelve at least probably won't have another meaningful
role in the NFL ever again, which is crazy because
you know it just it shows up and spits out
players every single year, but you never know what could happen.
Moving on to the wide receiver position, Amari Cooper tops
the list along with Keenan Allen, Gabe, Davis Nelson, Aguilar,

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Tyler boyd Odell Beckham, DJ Chark, Justin Ross, Kadarius Tony,
Dwayne Eskridge, Deontay Hardy, Brandon Powell, Jimson Crowder, Alan Robinson, Gunner,
Old Zeuski, Juwan Winfrey, Anthony Schwartz, Devin Hopkins, Jalen Darden,
Britain Kovee, DJ Turner, Marcus Callaway, and river Craft Ker Kraft.

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I believe that's how you say that c R A
c R A F. T. Have always seen his name,
and I've read it, but very rarely have to say it.
Pretty safe to say I doubt he's going to be
at the top of many people's lists, Amari Cooper. I
mean he should get signed right at some point. Maybe
some of these guys because their veterans are I ain't
doing the whole training camp thing. That is a factor
as well. I should have mentioned, some of these guys

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don't need training camp. They don't want to deal with
training camp, so they'll wait a little bit. Let teams
kind of cut cut the weight off the you know,
I guess the dead weight, cut that dead meat off
the bone. See what you have going forward with the
young pieces, and then you might be able to come
squeeze in a veteran for a little bit more of
a cheaper price. So getting somebody like a Mari Cooper
or Gabe Davis, who yes, I understand, you know, his

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contract with the Jaguars was a little bit outrageous, but
if you can get him for a discount of deal
for a team that could use some help at the
outside wide receiver position. I don't want to say a
field stretcher. He's not necessarily someone that can give you
that at this point, although we've seen him do that,
you know, big points and when he was a Buffalo
bill catching deep balls from Josh Allen. But he's not

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going to be playing with Josh Allen anymore, obviously, and
they were able to cut him pretty easily in Jacksonville,
So who knows. But the further you go down on
this list, the more you just see either special teams
as you're ceiling, or you're probably just not going to
find a place in the NFL again. But DJ Chark,
Tyler Boyd, Keenan Allen, Mark Cooper gave Davis it seems

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like at least one more opportunity could be there as
well as you know, guys like Odell Beckham, but it
does seem like their days are pretty much behind them.
Continuing on here tight end position, Jordan Aikens, Hayden Hurst,
c j Uzama, Anthony Firkser, Gerald Everett, Mercedes Lewis, Michael Prewitt,

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Jeff Swain, Nick Venette, Josiah de Gras, Taylor Davis, Jody Fortson,
Peyton Hindershot, and Dalton Keene. Hayden Hurst can provide some
athleticism at the position if he still wants to continue
and play football. Cj Ouzama has been around the block
a little bit. Seems like he might be a little
bit more named them game at this point. Gerald Everett

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is someone that I've always been a fan of. I
just think as well, you know, he's kind of, you know,
a little bit more looks the part than actually plays
the part. Mercedes Lewis it's crazy if he hasn't retired yet.
Michael Prewett, I have a video of him catching Desmond
Ritter's first career touchdown pass. Yes, that's a video that's
somewhere my camera role. Not necessarily proud of it, but
it's there. Tight end position, kind of like running back,

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but even worse like good luck. I mean, I guess
it's not necessarily like that, because you can float around
as a tight end for ten plus years if you're
a blocking tight end and you can find your way
into the right offense that runs a lot of twelve
personnel with two tight ends out there, and you can
if you're a run blocker, you can find a place
in the league. For a while. We've seen guys like
zach Ertz, you you know, has a little bit of
dual threat. He's not the terrible blocker. It's not necessarily

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something you look at like, oh, that's a strength for
zach Ertz. But obviously he's serviceable enough to play for
the Philadelphia Eagles for over a decade, it seemed, and
now he's still, you know, hanging around with the Commanders
as a pass catching tight end. So if you provide
a little bit of both. You can hang around in
the NFL for quite a long time. Let's talk about

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some offensive lineman here, starting with the tackles. Jedrick Wills,
Jermaine Effetti, Andres Pete, George F. Jackson, Carmen, Chris Hubbard,
Isaiah Winn, Jack Driscoll, Le Raven Clark, Hakim Adinja, Justin
her Justin Herron, and Deontay Smith. No tackles there. I'm

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taking a swing on, to be completely honest with you,
maybe Jermain Orfetti, if he could just be a swing
tackle or something like that. Wills, give me a break.
One of the biggest bus I've seen since I've been
watching an offensive lineman get drafted here lately, especially just
the hype coming out of the University of Alabama. He
got the stamp of approval from Joe Thomas to be
the future tackle for the Browns, and he just fell
flat on his face and definitely would love for them

(20:17):
to be able to take a different swing. I go
back in time and take a different player there. But
interior offensive lineman Brandon Schurf love him, Shag Mason, love him,
Nick Harris, Will Hernandez love him, Liam Eikenberg, Shane Lamoux, Lemieux,
Sam Mustafer, Cody Whitehair, Daniel Brunskill, Dalton Reisner, Michael Dunn,

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Kyle Hinton, Elijah Wilkinson, Dan Feeney, Connor McDermot, Quinn Bailey,
Nate Davis, Pat f Line, Connor McGovern, Lucida Smith, Brandon Schurff,
obviously Shag Mason, will Hernandez Liam Eikenberg. It seems like
there are some relatively serviceable linemen here. Given the state
of some of these teams O lines, I'm kind of
shock that they're not at least on the roster to

(21:02):
provide some depth. Maybe competition at training camp, make some
of your starters earn a little bit, push them a
little bit, give them that built in competition, even if
it's not a true open competition where they have a
chance to lose their starting job. It doesn't hurt to
get another veteran in there to maybe push them a
little bit, is what I'm saying pretty much there. But
let's turn it over to the defensive side of the

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football now. We will start with those edge rushers. Matt
Judon tops the list along with Zadarius Smith, former teammates
of the Baltimore Ravens. And then Jadavian Clowney, Shaq Barrett,
Ogbo Okoronko, Preston Smith, DeMarcus Walker, Jahea Ward, Carl Lawson,
Yannick and Gackway, James Smith, Williams, Tyas Bowser, Jesse Lakeda,

(21:44):
Malik Hering, James Houston, Jerry Hughes, Travis Gibson, and Kali Duke. Obviously,
I would take a swing on Judon even though he
didn't have a great year for Atlanta last year. We
already replaced him with draft picks and Leonard Floyd, so
he's not coming back to the Falcons. But just my point,
and that is that I'm hoping to it. Like the
fact that he didn't have a productive year for us

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last year, I would still give him another crack. Just
tells you how I feel about this player. Zadarius Smith
is someone that I feel like could still provide some
juice Clownies, maybe more of a run defender at this
point in his career, but the veteran leadership on a
limited snap count could provide some pretty good juice from him.
Shaq Barrett not really shore with adlers from here. Less
I heard he retired or something like that, or maybe
he went back to Denver. I don't know why that's

(22:26):
even in my mind. I don't know. I may have
to look into that. Jennik and Gockway might be more
name than game Carl Lawson. This just isn't really one
of the one of the stronger positions, just a little
bit more kind of washed up. At this point. You
could look at the defensive line, players like John Kaminski,
Tavin Bryan, Deshaun Williams, Austin Johnson, Lynville, Joseph Quentin, Jefferson,

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Neville Gallimore, Khalil Davis, Demon Harris, William Golston, Brent Urban,
Maurice Hurst, Jordan Phillips, Armon Watts, Kyle Pecko, Miles Adams,
Angelo Blackson, Matt Dickerson, Marlon Davidson, Eric Banks, Timmy Horn,
Montrevius Adams, and Cameron Young. I like Kaminski, like Tavian
Bryan for the right price, I would love Nevill Gallimore

(23:08):
as well, ma Reice Hirs, Jordan Phillips. I mean there's
players on this list too could give you something, I guess,
I mean, especially if you're trying to build a Madden
team like these are names, especially with salary cap off Yeah,
I'm building a defensive line with some of these guys,
But will any of them actually get signed? I mean,
there's a chance you really never know, as I've mentioned
a couple of times here, But linebacker position, Kazir White,

(23:32):
Jalen Reeves, Mabon, Eric Kendricks, Devondre Campbell, Nevill Hewitt, Ray,
Kwan McMillan, Juwan Bentley, Grant Stewart, cam Gill, Nick Vee Hill,
Duke Riley, Monte, Rice Chance, Campbell, Carter Koffla, Nicholas Morrow,
Sione Taki Taki so Devondre Campbell not the best at

(23:56):
this point, a little bit more you know, on the
other side of the hill there, but he was a
difference maker for the Falcons and for the Packers, kind
of bounced around Sins. But for the right price, he's
someone that could be a backup if your starter goes down.
He would be a very serviceable player that you could
plug in there immediately and get some production from. So.
I like what I see there from him. I was

(24:16):
so high on Rakwan McMillan coming out of Alabama, but
obviously hasn't really panned out. Another position where you can
get some special teams maybe some depth pieces, but that's
really about it. Cornerbacks a Santa Samuel Junior, who I'll
just go in preface right now, next surgery in the offseason.
That's gonna scare a lot of teams away. Whenever you

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have a next surgery in the offseason and you're expected
to come back and play defense a defensive position. I
don't really know. He must not have been cleared or something,
because there's no reason for him to not be out
there besides the neck injury. Obviously that's a big deal.
But I'm just saying like, even despite having something like that,
Like if teams didn't feel like he was done, why
wouldn't it be signed. Like if he was good to

(24:58):
go and he got the clearance from his doctor the
medical staff, that must be his He's not medically cleared yet,
so teams are gonna wait, maybe allow him to take
a physical, and he might find work at some point
in the twenty twenty five season. But definitely a little
bit of a bleaky view there for a Santae Samuel Junior,
Russell Douglas, Mike Hilton, Stefan Gilmore, Kendall Fuller, Jack Jones,

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Manuel Moseby, James Bradbury, Cameron Sutton, Kayla Farley, Faberne Moreau,
Justin Hardy, Eli Apple, CJ Henderson. Yeah, there's some names there,
Rise Deefan Gilmour from Heer defensive player of the Year,
Russeull Douglas, formerly dominant nickel cornerback playing on the inside.

(25:40):
James Bradbury was once a well paid cornerback in the league,
got that big contract from the Giants after dominating for
the Panthers, quote unquote dominating for the Panthers. Obviously, I
just mentioned Sante Samuel Junior. But man, the free agency class,
that's why there's not really a whole lot of movement
right now. There are a few names, but the whole
point of this episode, and what I've gathered from breaking

(26:00):
down these names with you guys and actually looking at
it position by position, is the league is pretty much
set with what they got, and these draft classes are
pretty much just solidifying that. The last position we'll talk
about his safeties, Justin Simmons, Julian Blackman, George Odom, Jordan Whitehead,
Marcus Williams, Jordan Poyer, Von Bell, Chuck Clark, Jlen Mills,
Quandrey Diggs, Marcus may Kevon Wallace, John Johnson to Sean Gibson, surprised.

(26:23):
I'm very surprised he's still kicking. He might be done.
He might be one of those guys that might have
played his last down, Ryan Neil, Ronnie Harrison, Elijah Riley,
Adrian Colbert, Trevor Dinbo, Adrian Amos, Jamall Adams, and J. T. Woods.
Safety is a kind of an interesting position, you know.
It's the defensive version of all the other ones that
we mentioned where the pay just doesn't really match the
position that they have to play and what they're asked

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to do, but it is what it is. You kind
of just go with it. If you're safety, you kind
of know what you're signing up for. But they do have,
you know, special team options and you could always be
a third fourth safety on a team and get work
for years as long as you're a decent player, and
I fel like these guys are, they could definitely have
one last run in them. With mind seeing Justin Simmons
sign pretty much anywhere out of the NFC, South just

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don't want to not root for him. It's not that
I'm very scared of him being on the Panthers or
the Bucks or something like that. But I would just
rather not have to deal with that. I respect him,
and when they signed with my division rivals towards the
end of their career, all bets are off. But you
guys get it. Thank you so much for tuning in here.
I'm going to wrap up here, getting close to the

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thirty minute mark on this podcast. I appreciate you guys
tuning in for bearing with us here. The next episode
that I'm going to talk about in terms of NFL
at mortals is going to be Zach Thomas, requested by
our very own CM, so one more shout out to
see him for everything he's been doing here in the
college football functioning. Go check out what he has going
on here coming up. I'm sure it's going to be

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very exciting as we get ready for college football. I'm
sure a lot of you guys are gearing up for
that as well. So thank you so much. Have a
damn good week, have a damn good rest of the
month of July, while passionately in the direction of your dream.
I'll talk to you soon.