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Steven Ruiz

The five worst deals handed out on the first day of NFL free agency

We knew this NFL offseason was going to be different, and that’s already proven to be the case. And, no, I’m not just saying that because the Patriots and Bill Belichick are throwing around money like the salary cap doesn’t exist. I’m saying that because there weren’t a lot of obviously egregious deals handed out on the first day of the legal tampering period.

Typically, this post is much easier to write. But this time around, I had to scroll up and down our free agency tracker (in which we’ve analyzed every major deal!) to pick out five moves that I didn’t like all that much. And I’m not even too down on any of the ones I’ll criticize here.

So, um, good job, NFL general managers!

Well, not the ones who agreed to these five deals I picked out as the worst moves of the day…

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