Will NFL Safeties Actually Get Paid in Free Agency This Year?
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Albert Breer
Landon Collins
Adrian Amos
Lamarcus Joyner
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Summary
The former finished third in Defensive Player of the Year voting just two seasons ago, while the latter is widely considered one of the best young coverage safeties in football (and he has the Pro Football Focus grades to back it up).Both are just 25 years old.Maybe the New York Giants and Chicago Bears figure the deep pool of free-agent safeties will make it easier to replace Collins and Amos, respectively, or that it'll make it possible to bring them back at more favorable rates. But it's not as though the $11.2 million tag price would have broken the bank.Instead, those decisions might be a reflection of last year's lack of interest in high-quality safeties on the free-agent market.In 2018, safeties other than Joyner received a collective slap in the face from the NFL's 32 teams:Those are all solid, starting-caliber players with strong resumes.
As said here by Brad Gagnon