The 2026 Free Agency Thread

[prodigy]

Oh and Willingham believes it? I'm fucking sold!

reading a ravens forum...they reminded me how they did Ryan Grant (our Ryan Grant) dirty after signing him to a stupid ass contract. I'm more inclined to believe this now lol.

 

[Conn]

Well if La Cantreporta says so...

What’s interesting is they reneged on that Ryan Grant contract a few years ago too (which potentially screwed us out of a comp pick, so we were watching)

So a pattern is potentially developing…I really don’t see why they’d back out of the trade by exaggerating a failed physical though. They didn’t need to do it in the first place. Hendrickson was always likely to be available for them

So feels more like a conspiracy theory. Fun one though

 

[DogofWar1]

The globalists don't want you to know this but you can just back out of bad NFL trade deals, I've backed out of 57 bad trade deals and re-accumulated 36 players and 49 draft picks.

 

[Riggo44]

If the Ravens swoop in and steal Owen, reuniting him with Minter, I'll lose my shit

 

[Conn]

 

[Chris]

 

[BayouBrave86]

Hopefully he’s thinking about bouncing back from his horrible sophomore campaign instead of preemptively making excuses for why next year will suck too.

Horrible? Hardly. The offense could never get fully healthy either. He still had 1200 yards 8 tds 3 ints in roughly 6 full games (injuries knocking him out).

 

[Chris]

If the Ravens swoop in and steal Owen, reuniting him with Minter, I'll lose my shit

Can a player just reneg on an agreement? Trades are contingent on passing a physical. Are FA deals subject to a players whim?

 

[SkinsNumberOne]

If he can get to nyg then he will be the first qb to ever have been on every nfce team.

^^ totally made up stat but I do wonder if it is true; assume not. He made the rounds really fast though, except nyg

 

[prodigy]

Can a player just reneg on an agreement? Trades are contingent on passing a physical. Are FA deals subject to a players whim?

JD McKissic did it for us lol

 

[heisenberg]

Can a player just reneg on an agreement? Trades are contingent on passing a physical. Are FA deals subject to a players whim?

They cant be signed and official until tomorrow at 4pm and until they are signed technically yes they can.
Its pretty rare but it happens.

 

[Riggo44]

Can a player just reneg on an agreement? Trades are contingent on passing a physical. Are FA deals subject to a players whim?

It's rare but it has happened

 

[Conn]

If the Ravens swoop in and steal Owen, reuniting him with Minter, I'll lose my shit

Whatever the Ravens are doing is one thing, but I think Oweh’s agents would be shunned by the league if this happened. Who would ever trust an agreement with them during the tampering period again? I don’t think it’s a real risk

 

[heisenberg]

Whatever the Ravens are doing is one thing, but I think Oweh’s agents would be shunned by the league if this happened. Who would ever trust an agreement with them during the tampering period again? I don’t think it’s a real risk

I agree, that and the ravens would look stupid too.

At that point it would be brutally obvious they didn't cancel the trade because of a failed physical.

This high profile of an incident would lead to changes in the way free agency is conducted.

 

[prodigy]

They cant be signed and official until tomorrow at 4pm and until they are signed technically yes they can.
Its pretty rare but it happens.

besides my JD mckissic example...AB sorta did it to the raiders in a very roundabout way too lol. raiders just can't catch a break.

 

[DogofWar1]

If this Crosby thign results in a major ripple effect I'm going to need an HBO mini-series on this.

 

[MartinC]

Brutal for the Raiders who now have $30M back on their cap, two less first round draft picks and a no doubt highly pissed off player.

 

[Conn]

I agree, that and the ravens would look stupid too.

At that point it would be brutally obvious they didn't cancel the trade because of a failed physical.

This high profile of an incident would lead to changes in the way free agency is conducted.

And potentially league punishment to deter future shenanigans.

A small contract with a WR4 like Ryan Grant is one thing. Or a small fry like JD McKissic (as much as I liked him)

A huge high profile $100M deal like this…no way any agent throws away that banked commission and reputation

 

[method man]

JD McKissic did it for us lol

I believe this created a real rift between Panthers North (Bills) and Panthers Mid Atlantic (us). I think the Bills cancelled a joint practice that year because of this

 

[KDawg]

Brutal for the Raiders who now have $30M back on their cap, two less first round draft picks and a no doubt highly pissed off player.

The Raiders have been spending money all Willy nilly, too. What an awkward situation.

I’ll give them a 4th for Max so they can get their cap back. It would be the least I could do.

I mean I don’t have any picks to give. But if I did.