The truth nobody will mention during wall-to-wall coverage of NFL free agency? It’s basically an overpriced rummage sale, a swap meet for trading in familiar if semi-productive players and hoping to get lucky with some else’s castoffs.
Every year at free agency it’s worth invoking something Hall of Fame wide receiver Tom Brown told me long ago: “No NFL team loses a player it truly wants to keep if the player wants to stay.”
An exaggeration, if only a slight one. Pore over any NFL team’s transactions from February through April, look at who came and who went, and only occasionally does a game-changer surface.