The NFL offseason is a paradox. It’s impossible to know what might happen in the draft without knowing what first happens in free agency. But the likeliest permutations of draft outcomes ought to directly impact a team’s approach to free agency.
Does your head hurt yet?
Often, we silo the two pools of players. There’s the draft and there’s free agency. If we don’t find a player in free agency, we’ll find a similar one in the draft or vice versa. But that’s not really how it works, or at least not how it should work.
All this week, Gil Brandt of NFL.