2026 Free Agent Superlatives: Favorite Fits, Buyer Beware and more
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
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We are officially on the doorstep of the legal tampering window and thus, the beginning of the 2026 free agency signing period. So, what are our favorite player/team fits? Who do we think can put a contender over the top? Who would we be wary of signing? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dig deep on free agent superlatives on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. Our last pre-free agency show today. Kick |
| 0:09.8 | things off with the DJ Moore News. DJ Moore headed to the Buffalo Bills for a second round pick, |
| 0:15.5 | a fifth also going back to Buffalo in that deal. They did some tweaks to his contract, a ton to dig into with a DJ Moore to the Bill's move. We talked about all of that with Dave and Derek. And then spent some time today going through some free agent superlatives for the 2026 class. Favorite fits. Favorite potential value signings. Don't overthink it. That guy's a good player. |
| 0:38.1 | Just sign him. |
| 0:39.5 | Favorite flyers. |
| 0:42.2 | Guys who are going to get paid more than the people might think. |
| 0:48.0 | Best finishing moves for contenders and the players that you would be a little bit afraid of if your team was shelling out the money for them. |
| 0:50.8 | So I probably talked about 50 guys over the course of this entire show. |
| 0:53.8 | So this |
| 0:54.1 | will be the last one we have before Free Agency. 11 a.m. on Monday, our Free Agency live |
| 0:59.6 | stream right here on the Athletic Football Show YouTube channel. Very much looking forward to that. |
| 1:04.4 | For now, let's get to our Free Agency superlatives with Dave and Derek. |
| 1:12.9 | Our last show before free agency starts in earnest next Monday. |
| 1:18.2 | As a quick reminder, 11 a.m. Central. |
| 1:20.2 | We will be here for our free agency live stream. |
| 1:23.6 | Very much looking forward to that. |
| 1:25.6 | We've got our last kind of big picture free agency show that we're doing today. We're going to hand out some free agency superlatives, a few categories that we want to hit. But like there has been all week, David, a little bit of news before we started recording today. DJ Moore traded to the Buffalo Bills. This kind of came in stages, right? You see the fact that he was traded to Buffalo. |
| 1:44.7 | And the first glance, I'm like, all right, yep, that makes a lot of sense. Then you see mid-round pick. I believe Ian Rapporte reported that that was the initial trade terms. It was a mid-round pick going back to Chicago. And then we get the final terms of the deal. the bears are sending DJ Moore |
| 1:59.8 | and a fifth round pick to Buffalo |
| 2:01.5 | in exchange for the 60th pick |
| 2:03.8 | in this year. final terms of the deal, the Bears are sending DJ Moore and a fifth round pick to Buffalo |
| 2:01.4 | in exchange for the 60th pick in this year's draft, which if you're a Bears fan, I think you have |
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