Ideally suited touchdown spots for NFL’s prime remaining free brokers
The NFL free-agency interval has been open for greater than per week, however there’s nonetheless loads of large names in the marketplace. Right here’s the place we expect they need to go.
Keenan Allen | WR | Buffalo Payments
At 32 years outdated, Allen ought to look to play for a contender. With simply 5 playoff video games in his 12-year profession, the six-time Professional Bowler wants a workforce that may get him to Tremendous Bowl LX.
Allen would match completely on the Payments, the place QB Josh Allen lately gained the NFL’s MVP award. Allen has missed 16 video games over the previous 5 seasons however would deliver a 17-game common of 1,245 yards and 7 touchdowns to a workforce and not using a 1,000-yard receiver final season.
Amari Cooper |WR | Tennessee Titans
The 2024 season is one Cooper wish to overlook after posting 547 yards and 4 touchdowns in 14 video games with the Browns and Payments. He had 1,250 yards for Cleveland the earlier 12 months and scored a career-high 9 touchdowns the 12 months earlier than that.
Tennessee traded DeAndre Hopkins away in 2023 and misplaced Nick Westbrook-Ikhine to the Dolphins this offseason. The Titans nonetheless have main receiver Calvin Ridley however Tyler Boyd stays a free agent.
With the No. 1 decide within the 2025 NFL Draft, there’s a great likelihood the Titans take a quarterback, presumably Miami’s Cam Ward. In the event that they do, the five-time Professional-Bowler could be a super goal for the previous Hurricane.
Brandin Cooks | WR | New England Patriots
A former first-round decide of the Saints in 2014, Cooks hopes to play for his sixth workforce in 11 years subsequent season. After posting a career-low 259 yards in 10 video games with the Cowboys final season, his days as a No. 1 receiver are clearly over, however he might be an asset to a workforce with younger pass-catchers like New England — he had 1,082 yards with the Patriots in 2017.
No workforce handed for fewer yards per sport (176.1) than the Patriots final season and obtained solely 87 yards in 12 video games from second-round rookie Ja’Lynn Polk. Sharing the sphere with a veteran like Cooks might be simply what Polk wants beneath new head coach Mike Vrabel.
Stefon Diggs | WR | Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys haven’t had a real No. 2 receiver to enrich CeeDee Lamb since Cooper had 865 yards and eight touchdowns in 2021, numbers that needs to be inside attain for Diggs, so long as he’s wholesome.
A torn ACL restricted Diggs to eight video games, 496 yards and 4 whole scores with the Texans in 2024, ending his streak of consecutive 1,000-yard seasons at six.
Diggs grew up a Cowboys fan, and his youthful brother, CB Trevon Diggs, has been with the Cowboys since 2020. The elder Diggs typically talks about taking part in together with his brother, and at 31 years outdated, this might be his final likelihood to take action.
Tyler Lockett | WR | Las Vegas Raiders
Lockett made 212 catches for two,527 yards for Seattle with Geno Smith beneath heart from 2022-24. He had 612 catches and 59 touchdowns beneath former Seahawks coach Pete Carroll from 2015-23.
Now that Carroll and Smith are with the Raiders, Lockett looks as if a super candidate to spice up the workforce’s anemic offense. Solely three groups scored fewer factors per sport (18.2) than Las Vegas final season, however veteran receiver Jakobi Meyers did have a career-high 1,027 yards.
With a 4-13 file, the Raiders will not catch the Chiefs subsequent season, however pairing Lockett with Meyers and All-Professional tight finish Brock Bowers might get them out of the basement within the AFC West.
Von Miller | LB | Buffalo Payments
With a $23M cap hit for 2025, the Payments had no selection however to launch the soon-to-be 36-year-old pass-rusher, however ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler describes Miller’s return as a “50-50” proposition.
The veteran linebacker had six sacks in 13 video games final 12 months, two fewer than Payments DE Greg Rousseau, who performed 456 extra snaps than Miller and signed a four-year, $80M contract to remain in Buffalo this offseason. Letting Miller go would nonetheless price the workforce $15M in lifeless cap cash, so bringing him again might be the most suitable choice for each side.
Whereas his identify has been linked to the Bengals, Packers and his dwelling city Dallas Cowboys, the Payments give Miller one of the best odds (+650) to succeed in Tremendous Bowl LX and finish his profession with a 3rd Tremendous Bowl ring.
Aaron Rodgers |QB| New York Giants
In line with a number of reviews, the 41-year-old quarterback has standing gives to hitch the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, though by the sounds of Steelers captain Cameron Heyward, Pittsburgh might be off the desk.
Apart from Tommy DeVito, the Giants haven’t any quarterbacks signed for 2025 and even when the Giants take Ward or Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders within the draft, the workforce might deliver them alongside slowly, letting them be taught beneath Rodgers the best way Rodgers discovered beneath Brett Favre in Inexperienced Bay.
