Official 2026 Free Agency/Offseason/Non-Draft Thread

[pbmax]

So what does "APY" even mean?

I take from the chart what Mad did - the teams in the final four of the playoffs mostly had good injury luck.

And somehow this chart makes me feel better about the Gannon hire, though that's not really logical.

Average Per Year. Mad was right.

[Fritz]

So what does "APY" even mean?

I take from the chart what Mad did - the teams in the final four of the playoffs mostly had good injury luck.

And somehow this chart makes me feel better about the Gannon hire, though that's not really logical.

[pbmax]

Based on the graph above, the Seahawks are like the Milwaukee Brewers of football. I now have a reason to care about the damn Super Bowl - rooting for Seattle.

I tend to agree with bobblehead, Morgan can't be any worse than Walker - who I never liked and considered overrated.

Sometimes I worry about people.

[pbmax]

I was responding to the chart in Joemailman's post immediately before mine.

Sometimes I worry about people.

[MadScientist]

Based on the graph above, the Seahawks are like the Milwaukee Brewers of football. I now have a reason to care about the damn Super Bowl - rooting for Seattle.

I tend to agree with bobblehead, Morgan can't be any worse than Walker - who I never liked and considered overrated.

That graph isn't total payroll, its the the amount spent on players who can't play due to injuries. Seattle is just lucky this year. The Brewers had plenty of injuries last season.

[texaspackerbacker]

Based on the graph above, the Seahawks are like the Milwaukee Brewers of football. I now have a reason to care about the damn Super Bowl - rooting for Seattle.

I tend to agree with bobblehead, Morgan can't be any worse than Walker - who I never liked and considered overrated.

[MadScientist]

I like the "injury values" idea. We should expand on that one. Did you see a chart or something on this??

I was responding to the chart in Joemailman's post immediately before mine.

[bobblehead]

Tauscher, who glorified and defense GUTEBAG WAY TOO MUCH, finally announced the the drafting of Jordan Morgan was a ccompleted F'cked up choice. He acknowledge that GB should have an extra CB with that pick, they are best served re signing Rasheed Wallace, and they kind of pidgeonholed themselves into handing Jordan Morgan the job when they really have no idea how good he will be.

My jaw dropped; Wilde is "ok' with Gutebag, but Tauscher defense him at all costs overall. Tauscher's view of Gutebag is starting to crack

I don't think Morgan will be a dropoff from Walker to be honest. He played really good LT against starters in the fake games and he had 2 nice games at RT towards the end of the year. The idea that he was shaped like a guard so he's a guard even though his entire skillset was tackle was fucked up Gutes thinking. I mean, Jrue is shaped like Curry so he should be lights out from 3 right??

[bobblehead]

Hopefully hiring Gannon doesn't mean we will get Arizona's luck.

Most of the teams with low injury values made the playoffs and only the Packers and 9ers made it from the teams with big money on the IR.

I like the "injury values" idea. We should expand on that one. Did you see a chart or something on this?? I know we lost like 6 of our best 10 players. Real hard to compete like that. Small part of the reason I give MiLF a semi pass. Hafley lost the guy we traded for without giving up much from the year prior and the entire defense went to shit. That reflects very poorly on him imo. But lose Jenkins, Tom, Kraft and I think Banks went down again in the playoff game (I can't even keep track of it all). Its hard to be good. And I forgot Whiskey missed the playoff game as well so Wyatt, Williams, Parsons all out. So many injuries. Perhaps it is all just injury luck at the end of the day.

[Bretsky]

If we can either draft the best center in college OR sign a legit NFL center could that fix the entire OL? Can Morgan slide back to LT and be effective? Can Banks be healthy and play like he flashed at times late? Will an offseason and camp working at RG have Belton playing effectively? A lot of question marks, but with some luck (OK, a lot of luck) our OL could be respectable next year. But it revolves around fixing the center problem. Any chance Jenkins takes a pay cut and comes back? I think he can play C, but he needed more than a single camp to get up to snuff. Now he has a camp and several games and potentially a second camp. That could be enough.

But mainly they really have to cut with the idea that you can just move guys all over because they have a tweener body type. That's about as stupid as thinking a RB who runs a 4.3 can find the running lane because you coached him up.

Tauscher, who glorified and defense GUTEBAG WAY TOO MUCH, finally announced the the drafting of Jordan Morgan was a ccompleted F'cked up choice. He acknowledge that GB should have an extra CB with that pick, they are best served re signing Rasheed Wallace, and they kind of pidgeonholed themselves into handing Jordan Morgan the job when they really have no idea how good he will be.

My jaw dropped; Wilde is "ok' with Gutebag, but Tauscher defense him at all costs overall. Tauscher's view of Gutebag is starting to crack

[MadScientist]

Hopefully hiring Gannon doesn't mean we will get Arizona's luck.

Most of the teams with low injury values made the playoffs and only the Packers and 9ers made it from the teams with big money on the IR.

[Joemailman]

Hope for better luck next year.

[Joemailman]

Tom Pelissero
@tompelissero.bsky.social

NFL salary cap over the years:

2013: $123M
2014: $133M
2015: $143.28M
2016: $155.27M
2017: $167M
2018: $177.2M
2019: $188.2M
2020: $198.2M
2021: $182.5M
2022: $208.2M
2023: $224.8M
2024: $255.4M
2025: $279.2M
2026: $301.2M-$305.7M (projected)

[MadScientist]

I'm guessing these streaming exclusive games are adding a good chunk to the cap increases. We can probably expect more.

[Joemailman]

Tom Pelissero
@tompelissero.bsky.social

The NFL informed clubs today it is projecting a 2026 salary cap in the range of $301.2 million to $305.7 million per club, per source.

That would represent another significant jump from this year’s $279.2 million cap number, and nearly $100M than the $208.2M cap in 2022.