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The NFL’s best remaining free agents, from Odell Beckham Jr. on down

NFL free agents can still make a difference, even this close to the regular season. Here are the best players still on the open market, for whatever reason.

On Thursday, September 8, the NFL’s 2022 regular season officially begins when the Los Angeles Rams host the Buffalo Bills. Teams have already been busy between wrapping up their training camps, prepping for Week 1, and both waiving and claiming players based on the league’s mandated roster cuts last Tuesday.

There is one more aspect of team-building that every franchise will pay some level of attention to at this point: Are there available free agents who can help our team for the right price? There are still valuable free agents on the open market. Some are recovering from injuries, or bad seasons, or they’ve already fielded multiple offers, and they’re either weighing the best opportunity, or just waiting for training camp to end so they don’t have to deal with that.

Here are our best remaining free agents with one calendar week left to go before the regular season; don’t be surprised if the majority of these guys get snapped up somewhere before the Rams and Bills kick things off.

The NFL’s best remaining free agents

With Day 1 of the NFL’s official tampering period in the books, here are the best remaining free agents for the 2022 league year.

NFL free agency…wait…the NFL’s legal tampering period is well underway.

While the league year does not begin until Wednesday, when deals can be signed for players moving to a new team, that does not stop reports of agreements from leaking out during this period of time.

Moves began last week, as teams were able to apply franchise or transition tags, on players facing free agency. But reports of new contracts and players switching teams began to swirl shortly after noon Eastern Standard Time on Monday, with the news that Alex Cappa was headed to Cincinnati as part of the Bengals’ “Operation Protect Joe Burrow.”

As the dust begins to settle, and the off-season moves on, here are the best remaining free agents for teams to sign as curated by Doug Farrar and Mark Schofield.