Best Free Agents Available?

[MadCardDisease]

This was kind of a silly exercise by ESPN but WTF Weinfuss? You have the Cards only offering $14M per year for Sweat while other teams are offering well over $22M? I'm thinking Weinfuss is just trolling the Cardinals here.

Simulating NFL free agency for six top players: We made offers and chose landing spots

Our NFL Nation reporters played GM and made offers on six free agents ... and we signed each player to a new deal. Who lands where?

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Top NFL free agents will begin to agree to new deals in less than a week, when the legal negotiating window kicks off Tuesday (though 2025 free agency officially opens two days later). To get a sense of how all the action will play out, we simulated the market on six key players -- four on defense, including two Eagles -- who could be available.

How? We asked our NFL Nation reporters to serve as the GM for the team they cover and make contract offers for key free agents while trying to stay within that team's salary cap restraints and realm of realistic outcomes. The object wasn't to "win" but rather to accurately reflect how a team might approach negotiations. For instance, the cap-strapped Saints didn't throw around any offers here, but the Patriots have money to spend -- and it showed. Once all the offers came in, national NFL reporter Dan Graziano played the role of player rep, mulling the proposals and "signing" each of the stars to a new deal.

Cardinals' offer: Three years, $43 million ($21 million guaranteed)

The Cardinals seriously need help at pass rusher. They were 28th in pass rush win rate in 2024 at 33.3%. The position has been a liability the past two seasons because of injuries to presumptive and actual starters.

Sweat, who will be 28 in March, would give instant credibility to Arizona's pass rush. He also has experience playing for Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon, who was his defensive coordinator in 2021 and 2022 -- Sweat's best two-season stretch in sacks. He had 7.5 in 2021 and 11 in 2022. Arizona would include a $12 million signing bonus and incentives for cracking 10, 12 and 15 sacks each season. -- Josh Weinfuss

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

But that would also apply to Josh Sweat as well lol

I know and I'm not in favor of giving him a big contract either.