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4-Down Territory: Best free agents, scheme fits, rising and falling NFL teams

In this week’s “4-Down Territory,” the guys discuss the best remaining free agents, ideal late-draft scheme fits, and the teams most and least improved after the draft.

In this week’s “4-Down Territory,” Kyle Madson of Niners Wire and Doug Farrar of Touchdown Wire get into a few important items as NFL teams prepare for the first minicamps of the 2023 season.

  1. Now that compensatory picks are out of the picture, NFL teams will start signing the next levels of free agents. Which players are the best left on the boards?
  2. Which third-day draft picks will prove to be the best scheme fits for their new teams?
  3. Which 2022 non-playoff team did the most to get into the tournament in the upcoming season?
  4. Conversely, which team should have done more to match their 2022 postseason successes?

You can watch this week’s “4-Down Territory” right here!

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The best available NFL free agents (post-compensatory pick edition)

Now that the draft is over, and compensatory picks are out of the free agency formula, here are the best free agents left on the open market.

On May 2, a contractual change happened in the NFL that will affect how (and how many) free agents still left on the boards are signed. On that date, free agent signings no longer add to the league’s formula for compensatory picks, meaning that NL teams can sign free agents without future picks going to the NFL teams those players previously played for.

That, along with the incoming minicamps, will have teams looking with a new eye at the league’s remaining free agents with a focus on which ones remaining will best fit their rosters, and best fill the remaining craters in those rosters. At this point in this process, none of these players are necessarily franchise-defining pieces, but you know how it goes. In the NFL, at some point, the bottom third of your roster will be just as important at the top third, and here are the guys who can fill that bottom third quite estimably.

With all that in mind, here are the best remaining free agents in the NFL — at least, for now.

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