Free agency wrap: Taking stock of a busy start to the new league year
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A few big names remain on the table, but most of the free agent puzzle pieces have fallen into place. So, what were our favorite signings? What signings did we not realize we needed until they happened? What positional market surprised us the most? And which unsigned players are we more intrigued by now than at the start of the week. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman answer those questions, and plenty more, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.6 | Our fourth day of free agency coverage here on the feed. |
| 0:10.7 | Do a little bit of a wrap up today. |
| 0:12.3 | It's been a little bit slower. |
| 0:13.5 | The news rolling in over the last 24 hours or so. |
| 0:16.4 | We did hit almost all of the smaller signings that have happened. |
| 0:20.4 | The Osse de Guzua trade, Jonathan Allen going to the Bengals. |
| 0:23.4 | They actually did fit into a lot of the categories that we hit today. |
| 0:26.8 | But that's what we did today. |
| 0:28.2 | Ran through about eight to 10 different categories, |
| 0:32.2 | little superlatives about what the free agency class |
| 0:34.7 | has looked like up to this point. |
| 0:36.2 | Our favorite fits, the best values, the high riskrisk move that we like the most, the signings |
| 0:40.6 | we didn't know we needed until we actually saw them, and more like that. |
| 0:45.3 | So a little bit of a zoom out on what the first 72 hours of free agency have looked like |
| 0:50.7 | so far with me, Dave, and Derek. |
| 0:53.7 | Let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 1:02.0 | Day four of our free agency coverage here on the athletic football show, the signings, the moves, |
| 1:07.9 | they have started to slow down. And so today we're going to zoom out a little bit and just talk about some of the most notable moves that have happened over the last 72 hours or so. |
| 1:18.5 | We're talking about our favorite fits, some of the values that we like, some of the bigger, maybe high-risk signings that we think are worth the dive that these teams are making. Before that, Derek, though, we're going to dive into a couple of the bits of news that have come out over the last week or so. Actually, no, no, I think we're going to hit some of those in most of the categories that we're talking about today. So let's just get straight to the categories. We've got about a dozen of them here that we want to get to today. Let's just start with those favorite fits. |
| 1:45.0 | Dave, as you look at the first 72 hours of free agency here and you look at all of the |
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