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The Adam Schefter Podcast

The Craziest Start to Free Agency

The Adam Schefter Podcast

ESPN

Sports

4.4753 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Adam is joined by his friend and colleague Daniel Dopp to recap all the madness that ensued during Free Agency week. After that, former Titans now Ravens running back Derrick Henry joins the show to discuss his free agency experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Adam Schaefter podcast and a belated happy new year to everybody across the country

0:14.4

as the NFL rung in the new year in the only way that the league can with a fury of activity, with chaos across the National Football

0:24.6

League, with mass signings, trades, moves, nonstop transactions from the moment the league began.

0:33.6

And today, we are going to be joined by one of the men who moved teams. We'll be joined by

0:39.5

the now former Tennessee Titans, all pro running back, Derek Henry, who last week signed a

0:45.8

two-year, $16 million deal worth up to $20 million with the Baltimore Ravens. If ever they

0:52.3

were a perfect team for Derek Henry, this would be it.

0:56.9

And he now will be paired up with Lamar Jackson, potentially forming the most dangerous

1:01.9

backfield in the National Football League. And we will talk to Derek Henry about his decision

1:07.4

to sign with Baltimore and what it means. And when we talk about all the activity

1:12.0

last week, this always is the single busiest week of the NFL year. And it started really the

1:20.7

Thursday before the new league year began, which would be Thursday, March 7th, when Jalen Johnson resigned with the Chicago Bears.

1:31.3

And then the next day, Friday, Justin Matabeeke signed with the Baltimore Ravens on a nearly

1:38.0

$100 million deal, which got us into the weekend and into the flurry of activity.

1:43.6

On Saturday, quiet Saturday, the Denver Broncos the weekend and into the flurry of activity. On Saturday,

1:44.8

quite Saturday, the Denver Broncos traded Jerry Judy to the Cleveland Browns. Chris Jones

1:49.5

signed a record deal with the Kansas City Chiefs to become the highest paid defensive tackle

1:54.1

in national football league history. And when everybody woke up on Sunday morning, the New England

1:58.2

Patriots had traded their former first round pick, Mack Jones, to the New England, to the Jacksonville Jaguars, before later in the afternoon,

2:05.3

Baker Mayfield, re-signed a three-year $100 million deal with the Buccaneers, and then that night,

2:10.4

before we headed into the Monday, the start of the legal tampering and negotiating period,

2:15.2

Russell Wilson signed a one-year deal for the Pittsburgh

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