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  • now that the NFL franchise tag window has closed, who is the best free agent available?

  • Juju, Smith Schuster, Kenny Golladay and then Bud Dupree.

  • We've got another few names, and the cool thing about this article, Jr is that they rank and then they sort of project where these guys could sign.

  • Are you ready to do this?

  • I am ready to do this.

  • All right, let's go.

  • I want to start with Juju Smith Schuster, which on this article ranked him at number seventeen and the free agency rank right, obviously coming off of the Steelers.

  • And they sort of said that they could see him joining Sam Donald potentially or whatever they choose to do with that number two overall pick in the New York Jets for a five year, eighty seven point five million dollar deal.

  • Is this something that you can see working well, it could, for a number of reasons.

  • Juju Smith Schuster is a guy who is certainly maximized.

  • His off field value has been incredible when it's come to the gaming community here, and just in general is one of the NFL faces that I think is starting to get to that point where he breaks out of the helmet.

  • It's often so difficult to get behind that, and so I see that they have the most money to pay him.

  • They're in dire need of weapons in that spot.

  • It is going to be interesting to me if they're willing to part ways with that kind of value.

  • This is a team that they stripped down to the studs rebuild right now, trying to figure out their path forward.

  • It seems like he would be right there for the taking.

  • I'd be very curious.

  • Baltimore has been in need of receivers.

  • They weren't willing to, I guess, get into the Allen Robinson market.

  • Maybe if that were going to come up based on some things that we heard, would he be more in their range?

  • And would you like to be the bad guy in Baltimore?

  • But the Jets make a ton of sense.

  • Oh, my gosh!

  • And Lamar, like two guys.

  • I mean, that would be so much fun for, you know, a team and being faces of the league as well again.

  • Plus that potential, you know, with the Jets.

  • And if Sam Donald still there, fight on which was the most annoying song in the Pac twelve.

  • I'm not gonna lie.

  • I'm so it is the worst.

  • Anytime we used to play out in Southern Cow because you also hear their fight Song played after every first down And when they were good hearing done No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

  • Uh, side note.

  • My favorite memory in the world was beating them to finish the season twelve zero and just walking out of the stadium like this to everyone leaving the tunnel.

  • But one of my favorite one of my favorite memories was when we beat them at USC.

  • Believe is Matt Barkley.

  • Time and overtime.

  • Yeah.

  • Go, Stanford.

  • Go, Andrew Luck.

  • Alright, The number one in Angola junior here talking about the best free agents available after these.

  • You know, the last few weeks, so of NFL signings and the number one free agent Trent Williams, a guy that you love offensive tackle with the forty nine ers.

  • Um, they have him resigning their four years.

  • Eighty two million.

  • Forty million guaranteed.

  • What are your thoughts on that?

  • Yeah, I think Trent Williams is the one that everyone's got eyes on here and I think there were a lot of people wondering if Kansas City was now a big time.

  • Need to tackle would go out that way.

  • They just restructured Patrick Mahomes deal.

  • Tried to clear up a bunch of cap space there, and so he's going to be someone that should be linked to every Super Bowl contender.

  • If I'm the Indianapolis Colts and their overwhelming amount of cap space right now after their retirement at left tackle, going and shooting your shot with Trent Williams and seeing if you can lock down on what's already considered one of the better old lines in the league.

  • If not the best left tackle who has been an absolute monster when he's been on the field to protect your new investment in Carson Wentz, they should all be taking a shot at him.

  • But it's got to be hard to leave San Fran knowing you've got maybe the best offensive coach in football.

  • So true and I should have gone straight here from Juju because I saw Number four on the list.

  • Junior but Dupri Giants offer four years, sixty four million.

  • That's sort of a transition.

  • Speaking of New York, you know, leaving from the, uh, the Pittsburgh Steelers and two guys landing on two different teams in New York.

  • How do you like that?

  • Yeah, this one seems to be again in the very, very strong vein of Dave.

  • Gettleman is likes Hog Mali's people that work up front, offensive and defensive lineman.

  • And so it tends to fit in that area.

  • Uh, hey, I wouldn't be surprised to see this move happen at all I think they've had.

  • That's probably the one spot outside linebacker where they've struggled to its times, hit home runs on the draft pick that they've gone after Lorenzo Alexander, not Lorenzo Alexander.

  • Lorenzo Carter from Georgia is, I think, the one that recently comes to mind on that spot.

  • But regardless, that would be a big upgrade for them on another team.

  • That is a little more in a rebuild mode, I think, than they're given credit for in a lot of these conversations.

  • Okay, last but not least, Junior, are you ready for this Final one before I'm going to ask you to have you already casted your vote on our weekend preview on ESPN radio?

  • I have not yet.

  • Okay, You better pull out your phone.

  • Come on now, Kenny Golladay, Lions.

  • Obviously number five in the ranking of free agents saying Lands with the Patriots.

  • The Patriots.

  • Five years, one hundred and five million.

  • Fifty mil guaranteed.

  • What do you think about that one?

  • I don't see the Patriots Paying that kind of money like this is not a place.

  • And maybe now that they don't have Tom Brady, they're going to have to explore being a spot that's going to pay premier prices for wide receivers for skill position players because they certainly can't draft receivers in the first round.

  • But I saw the other day someone talking about I believe it might have been our own Diana Russini, Kenny Golladay to Houston for them.

  • Try and continue to wound to Shawn Watson down there to see if they can keep him and incentivize him in some ways down there.

  • That, to me, would be something that I think, especially Nick Rosario, that influence down there.

  • He's going to know if this is something that's going to be interesting to the Patriots, but it just seems like it's off speed for them.

  • A franchise that traditionally grows and harvests players lets them enjoy a lot of success and then lets them go Get paid somewhere else.

  • Okay, While you're trying to, you know, go get ready for your vote, I just have to remind everyone listening that this is our simulator on ESPN dot com.

  • These are just fun projections of who's available as free agents and where they could land.

  • Which mind you, I always say, our NFL reporters, I think this was NFL Nation plus, Dan Graziano are excellent.

  • ESPN NFL Insider.

  • I don't know when they sleep for them to get their calculators up and make these projections so impressive.

  • So finally, junior, now that the NFL franchise tag window is closed, who is the best free agent available on our poll Juju, Kenny Or but?

  • Or you can write in another and I have a feeling you might do other.

  • Are you writing and not even thinking twice about it?

  • Handing my vote in there?

  • I vote for beef around these parts now, Kenny Golladay currently ahead with thirty six percent of the vote.

  • So at ESPN radio go vote in that weekend, Texans, Let's go, Please, Lord.

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