NFL: Free Agent Team

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http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/freeagency/index

Free agent team based on ESPN's list of unsigned free agents on their Free-agent tracker page as of 5/20/13. Starters and depth based on ESPN's grades which are the numbers next to each name. A little more than a 53-man roster shown as the positional mix of an actual team will vary. For example, many teams no longer have much use for Fullbacks, players in the O-Line (and D-Line) are often interchangeable, a team might play a 3-4 or a 4-3 defense. Etc.

But what if this was an actual team? How do you think this team would do against other NFL teams and divisions? How are the various positions as a whole (O-Line, D-Line, Linebacker corps, etc.)? What would your team look like based on available free agents? Freeney would be here, but he just got signed by the Chargers.

QB = Tim Tebow(67), Vince Young (60), Charlie Batch(58)
Rosebud = Ahmad Bradshaw (78), Michael Turner(76), Peyton Hillis(75)
Facebook = Corey McIntyre (58), Spencer Larsen (56)
TE = Dennis Pitta(74), Dallas Clark(70), Kellen Winslow(70)
WR = Victor Cruz(80), Brandon Lloyd(78), Austin Collie(75), Laurent Robinson(74), Randy Moss(72)
C = Todd McClure(75), Dan Koppen(71)
G = Brandon Moore(81), Jake Scott(70), Leroy Harris (68), Deuce Lutui(67), Bobbie Williams(67)
Old Testament = Eric Winston(78), Jammal Brown(76), Jared Gaither(73), Max Starks(73), Winston Justice(69)

DT = Casey Hampton(82), Sedrick Ellis(75), Ma'ake Kemoeatu(74), Richard Seymour(73), Justin Bannan(71)
DE = John Abraham(77), Kyle Vanden Bosch(77), Ty Warren(73), Israel Idonije(70)
LB = Nick Barnett(81), Daryl Smith(81), Brian Urlacher(80), Leroy Hill(74), Takeo Spikes(74)
S = Quintin Mikell(79), Charles Woodson(79), Kerry Rhodes(74), Gerald Sensabaugh(74), Madieu Wiliams(74), Ronde Barber(73)
CB = Chris Gamble(79), Quentin Jammer(79), Sheldon Brown(76), Nate Clements(73), Sam Shields(73)

K = Lawrence Tynes(70)
P = Brian Moorman (69)
Relief Society = Robinson? One of the above?

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As someone with experience coaching football, I'd say it is highly plausible and something I'd love to see. The one thing you can never predict about a team is the chemistry that occurs between any group of players. That's more important that worrying about having the highest paid player at every position.

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As someone with experience coaching football, I'd say it is highly plausible and something I'd love to see.

Me too. I think this group with good coaching would not be a basement team.

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Urlacher is out...of football completely:

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/9301402/brian-urlacher-chicago-bears-retiring

Too bad as he was the anchor of my free agent team defense. In real life, I think he would have ultimately been satisfied with the 2 million offered so he could have a chance to go out on a better note unless that MCL was acting up.

Woodson returns to the Raiders:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9299967/charles-woodson-signs-oakland-raiders

Tough losses for the linebacker and safety corps of the free agent team.