LB Devin Lloyd \u2014 Lloyd has been a top performer for Jacksonville for four seasons since arriving as a first-round pick (27th overall) in ’22. He’s always available (15-plus starts each year) and plays the run (100-plus tackles\/season) and especially the pass \u2014 he had 5 of his 9 career INTs last season plus a career-high 10 QB hits, both most among LBs. The Jaguars have limited cap space, so their potential loss of a star LB could be another team’s big gain.<\/p>\n
LB Quay Walker \u2014 Walker brings explosion, playmaking and run defense to the LBs room. He totaled 100-plus tackles in each of his four Green Bay seasons \u2014 via NFL.com, his 4.9 tackles\/game on designed rushes was 111th in the league. And he was a steady presence in the pass game, both in QB pressures and pass defense. Possibly Miami HC Jeff Hafley, Walker’s DC with the Packers, will show interest in the Pack’s former first-rounder, 22nd overall in ’22.<\/p>\n
LB Alex Anzalone \u2014 Anzalone arrived from New Orleans in Detroit in 2021, the same year Aaron Glenn took the Lions’ DC reins, played through last season, when he turned 31, and has said he wanted to retire as a Lion. He has played well in a few different roles and last season, after giving up the green-dot helmet, still logged 16 starts, 95 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 6 QB hits and a career-high 9 PDs. The Lions just may feel they can’t afford him and want to get younger at the position.<\/p>\n
S Bryan Cook \u2014 Cook has been a versatile player in the Chiefs’ deep middle ever since he arrived as KC’s second-round pick in ’22 and contributed that season all the way to the Super Bowl win. His next three seasons he moved into a starting role, had tame totals with 3 INTs and 13 PDs, but improved his tackle totals each year. He loves to hit, plays with confidence, and could be a nice safety teammate of someone like, say, Malachi Moore.<\/p>\n
S Ar’Darius Washington \u2014 Washington is a five-year Raven, a former undrafted rookie free agent who was squeezed for playing time at a loaded Baltimore safety spot. He’s undersized (5-8, 180) and coming off a torn Achilles last May that cost him most of the ’25 season. But in ’24 he stepped up with 10 starts, 62 tackles 2 INTs, 8 PDs and 5 TFLs. He will fit into some team’s safety picture.<\/p>\n
CB Riq Woolen \u2014 Woolen is coming off a Super Bowl victory with the Seahawks. He’s also winding up a four-year stay in Seattle that went from the highs of an NFL-leading 6 INTs as a rookie in ’22, to the next three seasons of 6 INTs combined and leading to a CB rotation role on the ’25 ‘Hawks that cut his starts in half. Riq has been described as “polarizing,” but also as a very good performer and interceptor for the team that lands him.<\/p>\n
S Andre Cisco \u2014 Have the Jets seen enough or might they want to re-sign Cisco after his season-ending shoulder injury at Cincinnati? He was a one-year signing a year ago who looked good in the secondary in tackling and leadership, eager but not as dominant in pass defense (1 PD) before going down in the Game 8 win. But he’s a hometown guy, with Queens and Long Island ties and his college career at Syracuse. If the shoulder checks out, he’s still young, turning 26 in late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LB Devin Lloyd \u2014 Lloyd has been a top performer for Jacksonville for four seasons since arriving as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2051],"tags":[103558,7,226,929,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-796287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-2026-free-agency","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkjets","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116182639241737471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}