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An introduction: Last year, I put together free-agent books from the perspective of a player agent for four different players, starting with Mike Wallace before moving on to Matt Flynn, Mario Williams, and Arian Foster. This year, I'll be doing the s...

After locking out the players last offseason in an attempt to corral spending, NFL owners and their front offices have spent the past 72 hours emptying their pockets to lock up players at the league's two most fungible positions. Running backs and ki...

Disclaimer: This article is part of my series on free agency from the perspective of the agent, where I prepare Scott Boras-esque "books" that detail where each player stands in the marketplace and why he deserves as much of your team's money as poss...

Disclaimer: This article is part of my series on free agency from the perspective of the agent, where I prepare Scott Boras-esque "books" that detail where each player stands in the marketplace and why he deserves as much of your team's money as poss...

NFL free agency is all about value. Anyone in the NFL can spend money, but good organizations succeed in the marketplace by identifying players who will produce more value than their contractual demands suggest; in other words, guys who are better th...

Day 1 of the NFL's madcap free-agency period.

A look at the NFL players whom front offices should avoid.

The first few days of NFL free agency are a jumble of names, rumors, and fan delusion (mostly the fan delusion). No matter how many times we see a team win a Super Bowl on the back of solid drafting and player development, early March always becomes ...

How a free-agent coach mastered the NFL.

The free-agent market is one week old, and the past three days have seen the flood of new contracts slow to a trickle, but there's still plenty of talent available at virtually every position. The players who were on the market when free agency opene...

Lost amid all of yesterday's free-agent chatter was the news that after 12 seasons, Steve Hutchinson's NFL career is over. Ray Lewis and Tony Gonzalez were the names oft-mentioned this offseason when discussing all-time greats walking away from the g...

With salaries growing faster than the salary cap, NFL teams can sit back and wait for the bargains.

It's finally here! With free agency just 24 hours away, we finish up our free agent preview today with a look at the teams who we think should spend exorbitant sums of money to improve themselves over the next couple of weeks. And while last year's f...

Phew. Two pieces into our NFL free agency preview and we've knocked off the 16 teams who are unlikely to spend all that much this month, which yields the exciting leftovers that we'll sift through over the next two days: the 16 teams we expect to do ...

Good strategies may fade away, but they never die.

Nnamdi, Vince, and Plax headline an emotional weekend.