I feel like Career Length is a much larger factor in the minds of Front Office folk when it comes to Free Agency. After all, you are getting a player who has already been through four seasons of NFL play and like the old saying goes; "nobody gets out of here alive."

 

It seems to me that teams will not allow themselves to view a Free Agent prospect solely in terms of "best talent out there" because they know that talent is going to have a significant price tag with long term ramifications. Would you like to have a top flight Defensive Back? Indeed I would, but would I like to have a player that I signed to a six year deal and I got him at year five of his career? That adds some complication to the choice now, doesn't it?

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