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.

The best remaining NFL free agents for 2021

NFL teams committed a truckload of money to their own players and other teams’ former players on Monday. There’s still a lot of talent left.

In the first day of the 2020 legal tampering period, NFL teams threw millions of dollars at their own players to re-sign, and committed future dollars which will become real when the 2021 league year kicks in on Wednesday, March 17 at 4:00 p.m. ET.

Still, as shot-callers for NFL teams wake up bleary-eyed on Tuesday morning, there’s still a ton of business to be done. There are still all kinds of quality free agents at every position, and here are the most prominent names left on the open market.