There were many free agents who were doing this after the first round of free agency, including LDE Stephen Fontenot. He fielded 19 free agent offers, including 3 maximum offers from Portland, Baltimore, and New Jersey before opting to sign with the Generals.

Five other signings stood out, although there were several more big contracts signed.

LT Russell Cox had 9 offers, signed 6 year/$87.2 million contract with Chicago

LT David Dougan had 9 offers, signing a 6 year/$104.6 million contract with Houston

WLB Rick Finke had 11 offers, signing a 6 year/$49.6 million contract with Tampa Bay

MLB Lief A. Mark had 16 offers, signing a 6 year/$177.3 million contract with Tampa Bay

CB Ralph Thomas had 11 offers, signing a 5 year/$85.1 million contract with Detroit.
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I did notice a few teams made no moves at all and also have no pending moves tonight. I attribute some of that to Thanksgiving, but don't make it worse by skipping round 2. A couple of these teams only have about 40 players signed.

I missed FA1 for the first time ever. We had all the kids and all the grandkids at our house for Thanksgiving and I could not find a spare minute to look over the free agent list.

As an aside, I don't understand why some of these guys were on the free agent market. Why allow a highly rated fifth year player to walk away when you have plenty of cap space and plenty of roster space?

Simple, it’s the season of giving. Even if that giving comes with a serious price tag

I was gonna say, some people just forget. I know I have.

I could have delayed the sim for Thanksgiving but nobody asked.

I'm not too concerned about anyone missing 1 round of free agency, but 4 teams have missed both rounds. One team has 50 players under contract and a boatload of draft picks and one has 49 under contract with the normal 7 picks so they'll be fine. A third team has 45 under contract and 6 picks, they too will be fine but they probably could have used some of the once available talent.

One team I am concerned about is Oklahoma. Only 40 players under contract and 4 draft picks, but no picks in rounds 2, 3, or 4 this year. Time to get busy.

I paid a ton for 5th year LT David Dougan who becomes my starter and should play out the entire contact.

A nice addition who was a boomer. Its hard to understand why he became a free agent since Jacksonville only has 34 players under contract but has 15 draft picks and maybe he thought he wasn't worth the contract he wanted.

I have him rated as 94/94 but his default is 84/84. Out of curiosity, what rating does everyone have for him?

Dougan's agent after the deal

I have him as an 87. I went after him too, I'm sure Tony Dean loves it.

I have Dougan as an 83. I guess $16 million per season for him is a bargain, since $30 million per season seems to be the going rate for free agents.

That's interesting...83 and 87....where is he lacking to be a 90 LT? He is 100 run/pass block with 60/68 speed/acceleration and 86 strength.

Although I've really found no great benefit to strength at offensive line. I had 2 offensive linemen with 100/100 blocking and 50ish strength on my offensive line and had the #1 offense last season. I still have it as a attribute counted since Seth has always said its important but I don't weigh it very high anymore. I give speed a higher weight now.