The NFL free-agency interval has been open for greater than every week, however there’s nonetheless loads of massive names in the marketplace. Right here’s the place we expect they need to go.
Keenan Allen | WR | Buffalo Payments
At 32 years previous, 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 group that may get him to Tremendous Bowl LX.
Allen would match completely on the Payments, the place QB Josh Allen just lately received the NFL’s MVP award. Allen has missed 16 video games over the previous 5 seasons however would carry a 17-game common of 1,245 yards and 7 touchdowns to a group with no 1,000-yard receiver final season.
Amari Cooper |WR | Tennessee Titans
The 2024 season is one Cooper wish to neglect 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 choose within the 2025 NFL Draft, there’s a superb likelihood the Titans take a quarterback, probably Miami’s Cam Ward. In the event that they do, the five-time Professional-Bowler could be a perfect goal for the previous Hurricane.
Brandin Cooks | WR | New England Patriots
A former first-round choose of the Saints in 2014, Cooks hopes to play for his sixth group 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 group with younger pass-catchers like New England — he had 1,082 yards with the Patriots in 2017.
No group handed for fewer yards per sport (176.1) than the Patriots final season and received solely 87 yards in 12 video games from second-round rookie Ja’Lynn Polk. Sharing the sector 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 must be inside attain for Diggs, so long as he’s wholesome.
A torn ACL restricted Diggs to eight video games, 496 yards and 4 complete 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 playing with his brother, and at 31 years previous, 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 middle 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 perfect candidate to spice up the group’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 may 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 value the group $15M in useless cap cash, so bringing him again might be the best choice for either side.
Whereas his title has been linked to the Bengals, Packers and his dwelling city Dallas Cowboys, the Payments give Miller the most effective 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 accordance with a number of studies, the 41-year-old quarterback has standing presents to hitch the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, though by the sounds of Steelers captain Cameron Heyward, Pittsburgh could be off the table.
Except for Tommy DeVito, the Giants don’t have any quarterbacks signed for 2025 and even when the Giants take Ward or Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders within the draft, the group may carry them alongside slowly, letting them study beneath Rodgers the best way Rodgers realized beneath Brett Favre in Inexperienced Bay.
