Lingering questions with the free agency dust settled
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Free agency is, for all intents and purposes, over. Sure, meaningful players like Jauan Jennings and Taylor Decker are still out there, but the vast majority of the player movement for the 2026 offseason has happened. So what questions still remain now that all 32 teams have spent most of their money? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen raise some big ones on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.4 | Free agency, the first couple of waves of free agency, have settled down. |
| 0:10.5 | Most of the guys that we were very curious to see what their landing spots would be, |
| 0:14.4 | the guys who were going to make big money, |
| 0:16.1 | they have found new homes for the 2026 season. |
| 0:18.7 | And so this will be essentially our last free agency theme |
| 0:22.4 | show. Now that a lot of that dust has settled, what are the big questions that are still left? |
| 0:27.4 | Those can be kind of bigger existential questions. Those can be how certain positions are going to be |
| 0:31.7 | filled by certain teams that still have needs there. So that's what me and Derek did today. |
| 0:35.7 | Just about a dozen questions we still have left |
| 0:38.7 | as we wait for the draft to happen, but after free agency has already unfolded. Where are these |
| 0:44.8 | teams at? How are they going to solve some of these problems? What guys might still be traded? |
| 0:49.3 | Which players are we still curious about their landing spots? That was what we dug into today. |
| 0:54.2 | Tomorrow, we are shifting our focus to the draft. Dane Bruegler is going to be joining me and Dave Hellman. We're going to do a little idiots guide to the 2026 NFL draft. I am the idiot. I know very little. Dane knows a lot. So it's a show we've done in the past. The show I very much enjoyed doing. So today, it's our last beat on the 2026 free agent crop with me and Derek, asking the biggest questions we still have left. |
| 1:17.7 | Let's get to that conversation right now. |
| 1:24.7 | All right. |
| 1:25.6 | It is March 18th here on the athletic football show. And as this week comes to a close, |
| 1:32.8 | pretty much every year at this point in the calendar, we really put free agency to bed. |
| 1:38.0 | We have about two full weeks of free agency conversations. Those started in earnest two weeks ago. |
| 1:43.4 | We obviously had our big week of free agency |
| 1:45.5 | reactions that started on Monday. And then we have about a week of shows that deal with the fallout |
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