The 2021 edition of NFL free agency will, to some degree, be business as usual. While a decreased salary cap may limit the number of market-setting deals this offseason, teams flush with cap space will still spend big on the top players when the market opens Wednesday.
In many cases, those teams will spend too much.
Every offseason, at least a few free agents wind up overpaid. Their deals might not appear outlandish at signing, but teams quickly come to regret them. The Miami Dolphins, for example, recently released linebacker Kyle Van Noy just a year into a four-year, $51 million deal.