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Welcome to 40s and Free Agents presented by Toyota.

It's my time of the year.

It's Free Agency Week, and I'm here with my friend Daniel Jeremiah.

We got a sponsor DJ, and we got a lot of signings to talk about.

Freedency already almost feels over. Yeah. This is a wild week, man. Fun. And I think in a year

where we thought, okay, and you had talked about it as well, like it's a solid group, but maybe

not quite as much sizzle as we've had in some other years. And then next thing you know, it got a little funky and a little wild later on in the week. I think there could, yeah, with the Max Crosby and Trey Hendrickson. And I also think there could be traits to come. So I say free agency feels over. And I just mean more of the top of my list. I mean, if we're doing winners and losers for the week,

I think the winners is the top 101 list by yours truly on NFL.com. 40 of the top 42 players are off the board. And that was true literally before the technical league year started. The only

two out of the top 42 that are even still available, Kyler Murray, who is visiting the Vikings on Thursday. We're taping Thursday morning. And

Rashid Walker, the tackle of the Packers, who frankly, I wish I had ranked a little bit

lower because I think the league maybe agreed with me. I thought he was going to get too much

money and he's still sitting out there. So he's a little bit of a surprise at a position where there weren't many players available. Basically all the top players got taken off the board almost right away. All right. Well, well done. Well done, buddy. I'm glad to see that. Have you had a year? How many years have you been doing this? Since 2015, 14, so whatever. Who is it? Who was it? Who was it? No, no, no, no, no. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. It was Cooper, right? Last year. Yeah. Just sat out there all off season. And they were still putting my top 101 during the preseason football games. that Cooper is the city out there, the number 10 player. That killed me. We avoided that.

Let's start thinking about, you know, this is the show about free agency and the draft. So we'll talk about both. But maybe how free agency decisions will impact, like, what teams are looking for in the draft. So I'll just go through a few different trends that happened early in free agency.

I'm going to start with the edge rusher just because that's where the most money went.

You know, the Trey Hendrickson saga was fascinating.

He ends up getting, you know, close to $30 million from the Ravens. But Jalen Phillips gets $120 million from the Panthers four years for him. Almost half of that's guaranteed. Adafioa gets $120 million from the Panthers, four years for him.

Almost half of that's guaranteed.

Adafioa gets $68 million guaranteed on $100 million contract from the commanders.

Boy, Maffi gets $20 million a year.

Quidipay gets $16 million a year.

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