Teams were more aggressive than ever with UDFAs

The draft procedure is, in theory, supposed to be simple. Teams make pick after pick and then after the last pick is made it's open season on anyone who wasn't picked. That's not how it actually goes.

Teams talk to agents representing players who aren't expected to be drafted well before the draft ends. It starts before the last day of the draft. During the final four rounds on Saturday, it builds to a fever pitch.

By the middle of round five, multiple teams are making offers to players who aren't expected to be drafted, with the understanding that, if the player is drafted, the handshake deal becomes null and void. And some teams are aggressive. As one source who dealt with multiple teams on Saturday (and who has been doing so annually) put it, teams were more aggressive than ever before.

Some teams will tell the agents representing potentially undrafted players that, if a deal isn't agreed to then and there, the teams will move on to someone else. Even as the draft is still happening. It should be no surprise, then, that reports of players agreeing to terms as undrafted free agents emerge as soon as the draft ends.