PFF's 2012 Free Agent Tracker
 

This will be a useful tool for FA discussions this offseason.

http://www.profootballfocus.com/blog...agent-tracker/

There are 563 current entries.

You can sort by position, years, player rating and snap count.

Sorted by player rating:

1. Drew Brees
563. Barry Richardson LMAO

This is very useful for giving you an idea of the best players at a position. If you sort by position, it will also order players of that position by their rating. You'll need to use the arrow keys at the bottom right to get to other positions, though.

Top OTs:

1. Demetrius Bell
2. Anthony Collins
3. Jared Gaither :facepalm:

Well that's accurate.

There are several very good guards hitting free agency. The talent pool is a lot richer than at OT.

1. Evan Mathis
2. Carl Nicks
3. Jake Scott
4. Chad Rinehart
5. Ben Grubbs
6. Montrae Holland
7. Craig Urbik.

That's 7 of the top 16 guards on the overall rankings.

It'll be useful for other teams. We'll just sign some 34 year old broke dick and a couple of average players.

We get out of this free agency with Grubbs/Nicks and Solai...along with a couple depth guys, it will really open up the draft for us.

There are several good centers, too. Pioli needs to pick up a center or a guard, start Hudson at the other spot and find a RT in the draft.

We won't get 1 of them, let alone 2.

Cuz none of them played for the Patriots.

And they're good.

I'd argue Breaston, Jones, and Lilja were good when we signed them. Something i've noticed other than Breaston, Pioli likes to sign these short term guys.

True.

I should have said this:

Nicks is not just good, he's really a top-flight guard. We don't acquire Tier 1 FAs, we acquire Tier 2/3 FAs.

Nicks is a beast. Thing is he'll get Hutchison money and i'm not sure we need to pay that much for a guard.

This is our spend year.

And even that is relative.

Huge, front-loaded contracts that really don't mean $3it because we'll be spending today's money with insane cap room which will only go up.

THis isn't basebal. They're saving this money for the one big "pounce" year like in 93.

Coaches don't count against the cap.

I don't expect huge changes on the defensive side but I expect HUGE changes on offense and in the roster...

This is our spend year. Here's to adding Chester McGlockton and Derrick Alexander!

I think that's mostly because he's trying to do it thru the draft, which is generally cheaper.