Free Agency Depth
The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner
The offseason is moving fast. The Franchise Tag window began Tuesday, February 18th. The NFL Combine started on Monday, February 24th and will go through Monday, March 3rd. The Legal Tampering period starts on Monday, March 10th, and Free Agency starts Wednesday, March 12th. That’s a lot of NFL content happening within a very short time frame.
Last week I wrote about the Chiefs free agents, and how the amount of players and snaps the Chiefs are losing compares to the rest of the NFL. It’s a lot. They have between the fifth to seventh highest percentage of team snaps as free agents in the NFL, depending on if you include only unrestricted free agents, or all types of free agents.
This week, I wanted to take a look at how deep the free agent pool is for each position. Obviously this can and will change as teams resign their players or cut other players under contract, making new free agents. This is only a current snapshot.
Every year, PFF puts out a Top 100 Free Agents article, and then add names to it as new players get added to the free agency pool. I took those 100 free agents and plotted them out by position to see which positions had the biggest pool of players to choose from. In that article, PFF also provides a projected contract of what they think the players will make in free agency. I used the projected contract numbers to separate the players into groupings within each position. Its easier to understand with an example, so I’ll drop the graphic and explain after.
