The 5 WORST NFL Free Agent Signings From 2023…And The 5 BEST

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Vast majority of lucrative NFL free agent signings failed to pan out but the 2023 class was certainly different while many of the more pricey signings flopped mightily there was also no shortage of bigname guys who lived up to or even outperformed their new contracts but the

Regular season now in the books let us dive into the five worst NFL free agent signings of 2023 and the five absolute Best worst Jimmy garoo this contract seemed like a mistake from day one lo and behold it took the Las Vegas Raiders six games to punt on the Jimmy G experiment after cutting Derek Car the Raiders pivoted to the of injured Garoppolo and handed him a three-year contract worth $2.75 million The Hope

Was that Garoppolo would provide stability at QB with head coach Josh McDaniels Jimmy G’s OC in New England now leading the way garoo missed two games in the first half of the Season due to injury but the final straw was a week eight outing against the Detroit

Lions Garoppolo completed 10 of 21 pass attempts for 126 yards no touchdowns and one interception and a 26 to4 loss rookie Aiden oconnell took over as a started from there finishing with a 5 and five record that helped beloved interim head coach Antonio Pierce retain the head coaching position Jimmy G’s

Season ended with 1,25 passing yards and seven game appearances seven touchdowns and nine interceptions if he was an average Joe and Kyle Shanahan star seted offense what made the Raiders think that Garoppolo would be a superstar again seriously someone make it make sense best baker Mayfield go through just

About every NFL expert season predictions ahead of week one and you’ll see just about all of them ranking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a bottom three or five team the Bucks lost Tom Brady to retirement and carried over $80 million in dead money for 2023 so how on Earth

Were they supposed to do anything good this year with Baker Mayfield on his fourth team in three years by the way replacing the goat Mayfield accepted a one-year pack worth $4 million from the desperate and cap-strapped Bucks eventually winning the starting QB over Kyle tras if anything Baker was going to

Struggle mightily and essentially help Tampa tank for a top five pick right well not so fast playing with a chip on his shoulder the former first overall pick instead pieced together a career year with 4,44 passing yards and 28 touchdowns against only 10 interceptions the Bucks just barely won the NFC south

Over the New Orleans Saints VI tiebreaker with a 9 and8 record continuing the magic Baker and the Bucks crushed the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles on super Wild Card Weekend before narrowly falling to Dan Campbell’s Detroit Lions in the divisional round somehow the Bucks were better with Mayfield in 2023 than they

Were with Brady last year as it turns out Mayfield was never a draft bust he just needed to find a team that believed in him you know one that would actually build the offense around him Mayfield’s a starter in this league and hopefully it’ll be with the Bucks longterm a

Division title and a playoff win for $4 million yeah that is an alltime Coupe by GM Jason light worst Derek Carr Carr’s first season with the New Orleans Saints had mixed results but when a team pays a quarterback $150 million over four years mixed results ain’t going to cut it you

Got to bring your egg game unfortunately Carr didn’t really do that until the final quarter or so of the season the Saints had won of football softest schedules this year and they played in the League’s worst division Carr was supposed to jumpstart a talented offense featuring Chris olve Michael Thomas

Alvin CRA and Jawan Johnson and get them back into the postseason the Carr’s first year with the Saints was marred by inconsistent play temper tantrums and blowups on his teammates he finished with just 3,878 passing yards on the year with 228.000 yards per contest mark car’s lowest average since his 2014 rookie

Year Carr had 25 touchdowns against eight interceptions which really doesn’t look that bad on paper at first glance but he had four games without a single TD pass and he only had multiple passing TDS in eight of the Saints 17 games his final stat line looks solid because car

LED New Orleans to a 4-1 finish but his play was mediocre at best for the first three or so quarters of the year look he just left it to a little too late and the Saints finished 9 and8 and missed out on the postseason for the third

Straight year it’s not a stretch to suggest that 2024 will likely be car’s last chance to show not holding the Saints but every other NFL team that he is a capable long-term starting QB option best Samson ukom looking to bolster the pass rush the Indianapolis Colt signed the former Los Angeles RAM

And San Francisco 49er to a three-year deal worth $24 million it felt like nothing more than a depth signing but all iom did was turn in his best season yet under first year head coach James Sten epom finishes the Colt sack leader with 9.5 having also provided three

Forced fumbles but the stat line alone does not do justice epicom finished third in ESPN’s Edge Defender Run Stop win rankings behind only Max Crosby and Will Anderson Jr epicom also finished 16th in ESPN’s Edge Defender pass rush win rate rankings his efforts helped the Colts to a surprising 98 record as they

Ultimately fell just short of making a surprise return to the postseason but with abacom De Forest Buckner and Rising Star quiddy pay the future is ultra bright for this young team worst Joan Taylor having lost all pro offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr to the Rival Cincinnati Bengals and free agency the

Chiefs decided to replace him with ex Jacksonville Jaguar standout Joan Taylor oddly Taylor has never been as good as brown yep he wound up earning more money in free agency Taylor got a 4-year $80 million packed with Casey while the Bengals got Brown Jr on A $64 million

Packa over four years any who the switch was a disaster for the Chiefs Taylor committed a leag high 20 penalties per Pro Football Focus while allowing five sacks on 1,76 offensive snaps PFF graded him at a disappointing 52.1 on the year showing that he was basically an average

Player with a $20 million average annual value the only saving grace for Taylor the Chiefs still had one of football’s best old lines in 2023 being led by interior lineman Trey Smith Creed Humphrey and Joe tonei so Taylor’s mostly lackluster and miserable play this year was easy to ignore thanks to

The super stardom that surrounded him doesn’t take away the fact that this was a big sway in a Miss of a signing for the defending Super Bowl champions though best David Montgomery after a 4-year run with the Chicago Bears Montgomery stayed in the NFC North and signed a three-year Packa with the Lions

Worth $18 million the Detroit front office stunned Everybody by using the number 12 selection on Alabama running back jir Gibbs despite already having the presence of Montgomery fast forward less than a year later and yeah I think we see why the Lions made this move Montgomery and Gibbs formed football’s

Most explosive running back Duo of 2023 with the former Talent 115 rushing yards in a career-high 13 rushing scores despite missing three games Gibbs was no slouch himself as the rb2 compiling 945 rushing yards 10 rushing scores and 1,261 total yards of offense if Gibbs didn’t miss two games the Lions would

Have had not one but two 1,000 yard rushers Montgomery and Gibbs perfectly exemplified the physically punishing smash him inth the mouth offense that Dan Camp wanted and all it did was a lead Detroit to its first division title in 30 years and B its first postseason win and NFC title game appearance since

1991 who said the running back is a devalued position the 2023 Lions Montgomery and Gibbs in particular would like to have a word with that crowd worst traine Edmonds the two-time Pro Bowl linebacker was a mday on the Buffalo Bills defense under sha mcdermit yet he also carried plenty of risk

Entering free agency for one Edmonds was largely supported by a superstar stuned cast on the Buffalo defense secondly offb linebackers just aren’t worth the amount of money that he got from the Chicago Bears that being a whopping $72 million over 4 years now Edmonds did a

Record high career for sacks to go along with seven interceptions and 113 combined tackles but he was also a major liability in coverage allowing a 78.5 completion percentage when targeted for 450 yards and three touchdowns according to pro football reference PFF also had him graded at just 56.6 which was a far

Cry from the 79.0 grade that he posted a year ago with the bills so the Bears basically got replaceable player caliber play from their $72 million man look you don’t have to be great at math to realize that that is a colossal disappointment of a signing for GM Ryan

Poles and Company the one silver lining there’s nowhere for Edmonds to go but up after a disappointing first year in the windy city so hey maybe next year will’ll be a bit better best Jesse baates II you probably didn’t find many let alone any folks who understood the

Atlanta Falcons decision to hand the X Bangals safety a lucrative four-year deal worth 64 02 Million last spring that was just way too much money for a not great safety that had just one excellent season on his resume now hindsight is 2020 but uh hey I think we

See why the Falcons paid bit like a superstar Bates singlehandedly transformed Atlanta’s defense into one of football’s very best units he tied a career-high six interceptions to go along with 11 pass defenses three forced fumbles and 132 combined tackles those latter two marks were also career bests for Bates per pro football reference

Bates also allowed just a 67.1 passer rating when targeted that being the best Mark of his entire career finally Pro Football Focus had him graded at 90.6 putting himself in the category of football’s Elite defensive backs worst Juju Smith Shuster the New England Patriots made the mind-numbing mistake

Of letting top wide receiver jacobe Meers walked to free agency Bill bich decided to replace Myers with the of injured Juju Smith Shuster handing the Speedy white out a three-year deal with 25 million bich clearly forgot the obvious that Smith Schuster simply had a great year for the Chiefs because he was

Playing for Andy Reid and Patrick momes as expected Smith Shuster was a non-factor on a lousy Patriots offense that was more unwatchable than the fourth Jaws movie and a healthy reminder no Jaws movie is worth watching after the first one Smith Shuster dealing with a well-documented knee injury Miss six

Games and finished with only 29 receptions for 260 yards in a touchdown Myers on the other hand had 71 receptions for 807 yards in a career-high eight touchdowns and that was despite playing second fiddle to Superstar Devonte Adams in C City all we can say is bel’s decision to swap out

Myers for Smith Schuster was just one of many mistakes that ultimately led to his departure from Foxboro it was time for a change all right best Javon Hargrave after losing to hardgrave in the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game the 49ers saw the golden opportunity to turn an enemy into

An ally after hitting the open market the star defensive tackle left Philly to sign a 4year $81 million deal with the 49ers hey double whammy for John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan arra added more juice to an already scary 49ers ront seven led by Nick Bosa and Fred Warner tallying

Seven sacks and two pass defenses per ESPN’s data Hargrave commanded the double team on 59% of his pass rushing plays even if he wasn’t getting after the quarterback hardgrave was just opening the door for the likes of Bosa and Eric Armstead to create pressure the Eagles loss turned out to be a giant

Massive gain for the 49ers who once again fielded an elite defense defense that propelled them to the nfc’s top seed and a Philly team that recorded a league High 7 sacks a year ago finished with only 43 for the 2023 season hey what can we say it was a Monumental win

For the 49ers and a huge loss for the Eagles but which other terrible and great 2023 NFL free agent signings should we have included on our list was there anybody that we may have missed let us know in the comment section below if you like this video and learned a

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