The primary week of NFL free company and the offseason concluded on Friday with one main huge receiver signing as Cooper Kupp joined the Seattle Seahawks.
Let’s check out the remainder of the winners and losers from Friday’s NFL free company.
Winner: Vast receiver Cooper Kupp
Signing with the Seattle Seahawks is a large win for Kupp for a number of causes.
The most important being that he’s getting a reported three-year, $45 million contract at his age (31) and after battling main damage points the previous couple of seasons.
The second is that he will get to return to Washington state the place he’s initially from (Yakima) and performed his faculty soccer (Japanese Washington).
He additionally will get a chance to play as a part of a retooled Seahawks offense whereas additionally taking part in towards his former group two instances a 12 months to attempt to get some revenge.
Loser: Dallas Cowboys
One other 12 months, one other underwhelming offseason for the Cowboys, and they’re taking losses far and wide this spring.
They signed working again Miles Sanders early Friday morning, however that’s not an improve over Rico Dowdle who ended up changing Sanders in Carolina.
They had been rumored to be thinking about Kupp to function a complement to famous person CeeDee Lamb, solely to observe him signal with the Seahawks as a substitute.
Then they acquired humiliated by former participant DeMarcus Lawrence after he joined the Seahawks and took a shot at the Cowboys’ Super Bowl chances.
If you’re a Cowboys fan, the place is the optimism coming from this offseason?
Winner: Kansas Metropolis Chiefs depth
The Chiefs made a few smaller depth signings on Friday, bringing again working again Kareem Hunt on a one-year deal and signing Bailey Zappe for some extra quarterback depth. They aren’t league-altering strikes by any stretch, however strong depth at a few key positions. With Patrick Mahomes, Gardner Minshew and Zappe the Chiefs have one of many league’s finest quarterback rooms with a future Corridor of Famer and two very succesful backups.
Loser: Buffalo Payments free-agent class
It’s not that the Payments free agent signings are unhealthy. They added some excellent depth to their defensive position.
The issue is they’ll have to attend till Week 7 to see two of them as they discovered on Friday that Michael Hoecht and Larry Ogunjobi are facing six-game suspensions for PED violations.
Winner: Free brokers basically
When it comes to top-end expertise, this was not an excellent group of free brokers. Because of the mix of a rising wage cap, in addition to some desperation from groups seeking to discover assist, free brokers nonetheless managed to money in with some huge greenback numbers.
