With the 2024 free agency frenzy coming and going, let’s examine which newcomers might not play up to the high expectations that come from a lucrative contract.
Let’s focus on expectations more than performance. The teams that splurge in March tend to do it because of need and impatience—maybe one day the NFL will have the draft before free agency. But this offseason schedule benefits the veterans, and there’s nothing wrong with getting the bag from desperate and/or reckless teams.
Every new partnership starts with plenty of optimism, but many of the ones formed in free agency don’t work out. (It wasn’t hard finding 12 bad contracts from last free agency.)
