We’re two weeks into March, and the new NFL league year is here for 2026. That means all free agency moves can now be made official, which allows us to take stock of how all 32 teams did after a flurry of moves.
The NFL used to look down on big free agent spending, feeling like it was indicative of a roster that had two many holes to contend. The league’s two Super Bowl LX squads, the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, showed that’s not the case in the 2025 season. The Seahawks ranked fourth in the 2025 offseason in free-agent spending, and the Patriots spent an NFL-record $364 million to go from top five picks in consecutive years to hoisting the AFC championship trophy.
With the entire NFL emboldened to spend higher sums of money and on a higher volume of players in free agency, let’s grade how every team has done this offseason while operating on a new roster building paradigm.
Arizona Cardinals: C
Key additions: QB Gardner Minshew, G Isaac Seumalo, RB Tyler Allgeier, DL Roy Lopez, WR Kendrick Bourne, S Andrew WingardKey re-signings: DL L.J. Collier, CB Starling Thomas V, P Blake Gillikin, K Chad RylandKey departures: QB Kyler Murray, S Jalen Thompson, DT Dalvin Tomlinson
The Arizona Cardinals have entered the 2027 NFL Draft tank race. With a new head coach in Mike LaFleur and allowing Kyler Murray to walk on over to the Minnesota Vikings, the Cardinals essentially declared they would be running it back with Jacoby Brissett. In 2025, his overall stats were solid (3,377 passing yards, the second most in the NFL from the time he became a starter in Week 6 to the end of the season), but they were…
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