2021 NFL free agency: Receivers galore on market
If your team need to add a wide receiver, this is the year to do it. The 2021 NFL free agency will be overloaded with pass-catchers.
Business is about supply and demand. Always has been, always will be.
This year, the supply of receivers is outrageous while the demand, considering the cap situation around the league, is less than previous offseasons.
Look around the best-available lists, and you’ll see a glut of free agents. There are some youngsters hitting the market for the first time including JuJu Smith-Schuster, Kenny Golladay, Curtis Samuel, Will Fuller, Corey Davis and Josh Reynolds. Then there are the veterans featuring Sammy Watkins, T.Y. Hilton, Larry Fitzgerald, A.J. Green, Nelson Agholor, Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders and a litany of others.
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Then there’s the incoming draft class, which many feel is going to be one of the better rookie crops we’ve seen in some time. This group will be led by a trio of SEC stars including LSU’s JaMarr Chase, and DeVonta Smith and Jaylen Waddle of the Alabama Crimson Tide.
For any general manager seeking help on the outside, there should be ample ways to secure someone on the cheap. If it’s an established pro, perhaps wait for Golladay to sign, who will certainly set the value for all of the free-agent receivers. After him, the next tier is led by Smith-Schuster, Davis and Fuller in the estimation of most, although Fuller’s injury history could be problematic.
After that, it’s going to be a free-for-all when it comes to getting good receivers on dirt-cheap deals. The cap dropping from $198 million to $182.5 million means most teams need to be judicious with their spending, and so what would normally be three-year, $20 million pacts will likely be one year and $4 million.
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With the new league year (and thus 2021 NFL free agency) beginning on St. Patrick’s Day at 4 p.m. EST, the action will begin hot and heavy. Teams will spend lavishly, but the money will dry up quickly and those left without a proverbial dance partner will desperately be seeking whatever they can get before being completely picked over for other options.
Bad time to be a free-agent receiver. Great time to need one.
