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Believe it or not, it’s time to start
thinking about Free Agency. The beginning of the Free Agent Signing
Period starts at midnight on February 29th. These rankings were
comprised regardless of free agent status (i.e. Restricted or
Unrestricted) but the status is indicated as “RFA” for “Restricted Free
Agent” and “UFA” for “Unrestricted Free Agent” to the right of the
player name. The definitions of each are as follows:
UFA:
A Player who has at least four years experience at the expiration of a
contract can sign with any team with no compensation to his former club.
RFA:
Restricted free agents have three years of experience at the end of
their contracts and must be tendered an offer sheet before April 15.
The player's current club has seven days to match the offer, or the
player's rights revert to the team that tendered the sheet. Teams are
awarded compensatory draft picks based on the quantity and quality of
restricted free agents it loses to other squads in the previous year's
free-agent period.
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Top NFL Free Agents
by Paul Eide
Senior Writer
1/24/08
Top Five Free Agent Centers
1. Jeff Faine- UFA- Behind Faine,
the Saints allowed Drew Brees to be sacked a league low 16 times in
2007.
2. Casey Wiegmann- UFA- Wiegmann has anchored the Chiefs
offensive line since 2001 and has only missed one game since then.
3. Jeremy Newberry- UFA- Former three time Pro Bowler recovered
from what was thought to be a career ending knee injury to start 14
games for the Raiders in 2007.
4. Andy McCollum- UFA- Started 10 games last year. 14 year
veteran has started in two Super Bowls, winning one.
5. John Wade- UFA- Started 16 games in each of the last three
seasons.
Best of the Rest:
6. Chris Myers- RFA
7. Alex Stepanovich- UFA
8. Ross Tucker - UFA
9. Brett Romberg- UFA
10. Eugene Amano- UFA |
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