NFL free agency: Best players for bargain-hunting teams at every position group

Jacoby Brissett has been a capable and steady quarterback in several different offensive schemes. He could be a good stopgap for a team in QB purgatory. (Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images)

We are at the dawn of free agency! Or, with the signings, cuts and franchise tagging already trickling in, the rise (of the planet) of free agency. While fans and teams have starry eyes about that certain player that’s for sure going to put their team over the top (but for some reason is curiously available on the open market), I went position-by-position and provided “the other guy(s)” at each spot. The less-than-heralded, under-the-radar, football-hipster-favorite types of free agents that are available, and who could potentially provide more bang for their buck than their more headline-grabbing free agent comrades.

Quarterback

Jacoby Brissett

The teams in quarterback purgatory should be figuring out a way to give Brissett a two-year deal and give themselves a prayer at quarterback competency in the near-term. Brissett has long been underrated as a steady hand behind center, a Dean Malenko-like Iceman that is the man of a thousand quarterback tricks from his career around the NFL:

another reason to love Jacoby Brissett:

watch him trail the running backs during the Browns 4 minute drill when they’re trying to burn clock. Being a safety net in case things get wonky.

The Big Fundamental pic.twitter.com/Koa8R6ftbq

— Nate Tice (@Nate_Tice) January 20, 2023

Brissett is a smart player that has performed like an adequate, even quite-capable starter for long stretches in Cleveland (cleanly outplaying Deshuan Watson) and Indianapolis and even in a brief stint in Washington. He is a level dropback operator that can play within structure and has cross-pollinated with every NFL offensive tree during his journeyman career. Straight dropback, play action, heck, Brissett is even one of the best quarterbacks at sneaking in short yardage in the entire NFL right now. Why allocate your…

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Publish date : 2024-03-08 04:12:26

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