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NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

40s and Free Agents: Ranking the Defensive Free Agents

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.73.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Jeremiah and Gregg Rosenthal are breaking down and ranking the top defensive free agents heading into the offseason. From elite edge rushers to lockdown defensive backs, we evaluate the biggest names set to hit the market and discuss who can make the biggest impact next season.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.8

Welcome back to 40s and Free Agents with Daniel Jeremiah and Greg Rosenthal.

0:13.5

If you are watching us on YouTube, you will note that DJ's name for the first time goes first.

0:21.7

Congratulations.

0:22.6

That is the payoff for winning our Super Bowl picks.

0:26.5

So now finally, you're on top of the call sheet, DJ, a big milestone for you.

0:31.9

Yeah, top billing.

0:33.4

I'll be honestly, it was, you know, it was something that it wasn't part of my goals. It wasn't something I was striving to do. It just when you put your head down, you work hard, you don't pick stupid teams, you know, good things happen. That's kind of what my coaches just always tell me. Probably most people are listening are like me before I realized that my name was versus like, how was Jeremiah's name not first the whole time he's the host you're

0:55.0

the host you're the host of the nfl draft he's got the social pop but the difference is it's my season

1:02.1

it's free agency season at least for this episode so uh look we got the top 101 free agents it's coming

1:08.9

out uh later this week early next week right before the starts. So we're going to do a big combine preview and put that up next week. But this week, we're going to have DJ do something that he wouldn't do for me as a friend. So I'm only going to do it, you know, he's only going to do it for me as a co-host, which is he's going to help me on my top one-o-a-list. Pretty big ask over email, to be honest, kind of a big ask. And I didn't see who all the other people you sent it to. So it's like, well, wait, is he sending this to 50 people? I know. I know, what am I going to do? I'll let the other 49 people do that. You know, I got No, it was just like five or six people. People I consider the most elite ball knowers in the business.

1:45.3

And I just send them my 101.

1:46.9

It's some people with teams.

1:48.1

It's some people. It was just like five or six people, people I consider the most elite ball knowers in the business.

1:45.3

And I just send them my 101. It's some people with teams. It's some people in the media. People don't want their names out there. And just like if anyone stands out to you, it's a little market correction. Tell me who you think is too high or too low. So our exercise today, we're going to go through the defensive side because me and you, we've already talked about the offensive side.

2:01.2

And you can just, you can just give me your thoughts if anyone's too high or too low or just about these players in general. And I'll go through them position by position. Let's start at the edge where there's good depth. There's always pretty good depth at edge in free agency where you can find a guy at the end of the list that can give you

2:20.0

400, 500 good snaps.

2:21.5

But at the top of the list, it's very intriguing.

2:23.9

I have four guys in my top 10 overall right now.

2:26.8

I have Jalen Phillips actually ahead of Trey Hendrickson.

2:30.1

So I'm curious what you think about that.

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