This is the first of a two-part series in which I’ll preview the Free Agency class for 2017 by looking at which positions are the strongest and which are the weakest. This takes into account not only the level of talent available, but also the likelihood that the player actually reaches the market. I’ll start […]
Below is an unfinished draft of the beginning of the Front Office section of the “Caponomics Theories” section of “#Caponomics: Understanding NFL Roster Building through Super Bowl Champion Salary Cap Analysis” which I’m pushing to have published and available on Amazon during training camp. I started this project in February after going to the NFL Combine […]
The main thing we’re focusing on here will be what Manning and the Broncos should do in 2015 to construct a roster that gives them the best chance at winning the Super Bowl, but we’ll also be addressing the Manning vs Brady debate that has been going on since the early-2000s and that New England […]
This article refers specifically to OTC’s projection for the 2018 NFL Draft’s compensatory picks. For details on the basics and methodology of projecting compensatory picks in general, please reference this article. To understand how this projection is generated for each team, please reference the compensatory picks cancellation charts here. The Projection Team Rd Compensated Free […]
The Eagles had a big setback on the season when Pro Bowl guard Brandon Brooks was likely lost for the season to an Achilles tear. Brooks had signed an extension last November and this will be his second injury since signing, as Brooks also suffered a dislocated shoulder in the final game of the 2019 […]
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 it’s a much smaller group on offense I figured I would start there and […]
One of the odd quirks of the NFL’s complicated compensatory pick formula is that if a contract includes a team option on a future year of the contract, and the team declines that option, making the player an unrestricted free agent, that player would qualify as a compensatory free agent (CFA) in the team’s favor. […]