Free agency grades for every NFL team ... except the two stuck with incompletes

Believe it or not, it’s been two weeks since NFL free agency (officially) started – the league’s landscape reshaped by player movement as trades and new contracts began being processed on March 11. And while a few notable names currently remain unclaimed – Aaron Rodgers, Jauan Jennings, Stefon Diggs, Kirk Cousins and Joey Bosa among them – the NFL is largely transitioning back toward next month’s draft as the calendar currently churns through pro day season . But the interlude provides a logical point to grade all 32 teams’ − almost all − approach to this year’s (not especially) robust free agent market.

Without further ado, the report cards (teams listed alphabetically; salary cap figures courtesy of Over The Cap ): Arizona Cardinals: C+ Don’t confuse activity with achievement. They decided to part, probably wisely, with QB Kyler Murray and several starters from a defense that ranked 27th in 2025 – maybe not all that big a deal for a team that tied for the league’s worst record (3-14) last season. A fleet of newcomers that includes G Isaac Seumalo, RB Tyler Allgeier and WR Kendrick Bourne has nice players, but it’s not going to change the trajectory of a franchise that still needs to replace Murray and has such a massive gulf between it and the rest of the NFC West.

But a hard reset was the way to go here. Atlanta Falcons: B- The price (the veteran minimum) was right on new QB Tua Tagovailoa, particularly for a rebooting team without much cap space – or a first-round draft pick in 2026. (And its absence might hurt more given OLB James Pearce Jr.

, whom the selection was spent on, is facing three felonies stemming from a scary February incident in Florida involving his ex-girlfriend, WNBA player Rickea Jackson. ) RB Brian Robinson nicely backfills for Allgeier behind Bijan Robinson, S Sydney Brown arrived in a pick swap, Atlanta’s new brain trust can kick its decision on franchised TE Kyle Pitts down the road for a year, and it’s just as well not having Cousins’ specter lingering over the quarterback room. But expect another passer to be inbound in a year if neither Tagovailoa nor 2024 first-rounder Michael Penix Jr.