133- AFC Free Agency Recap

Hello Heat Seekers, welcome to episode 133 of Sully’s 2 Cents Fantasy Football Podcast.  I am you host; I am Rob Sullivan.  The Sully’s 2 Cents Fantasy Football Podcast is a proud member of the RotoHeat family of podcasts.

Last week we ran through the key player moves in the NFC and this week we are back to take a look at the key moves in the AFC.

The NFL Salary Cap shrunk to $182,500,000 for the 2021 season. In 2020 the cap was $198.2MM.  as a result of the Coivid-19 pandemic and a massive reduction in league revenue in 2020, Team are forced to make do with 15.7MM less in 2021. 

So, lets drive right in!

AFC East

AFC Free Agency Recap

Buffalo BillsCap Space: $8,088,625Draft Slot: Pick 30

QB Mitchell Trubisky: Agreed to a one-year contract worth $2.5 million.RB Taiwan Jones: Agreed to a one-year deal.RB Matt Brieda: Agreed to a one-year deal.WR Emmanuel Sanders: Agreed to a one-year contract.TE Jacob Hollister: Agreed to a one-year deal.

The Sanders signing isn’t great news for Gabriel Davis, who was expected to function as the Bills’ clear-cut No. 2 outside WR after John Brown was released last week. This is suddenly a wide receiver room considering Cole Beasley has seen 106 and 107 targets over the past two seasons.

The good news for everyone involved is that this is truly a fantasy-friendly offense. Josh Allen ranked eighth in drop backs last season and second with at least four wide receivers on the field. The 2019 No. 2 scoring offense clearly is capable of enabling more than one high-end fantasy receiver; it’s just not clear who that will be.

I believe that we will see Sanders and Davis rotate, making Beasley the No. 2 target in this offense. Beasley is worthy of low-end WR3 consideration as his floor, while Diggs should continue to be drafted among fantasy’s top-five players at his position. Davis is the primary loser here; treat both him and Sanders as boom-or-bust WR4 options until we have any sort of confidence that one or the other has the edge in playing time.

The one thing that doesn’t change here is that Josh Allen remains a top fantasy QB will weapons all over the field to utilize in addition to his legs.

Miami DolphinsCap Space: $10,444,876Draft Slot: Pick 6, Pick 18

The Dolphins sent the number three overall draft pick in the 2021 NFL Draft to San Francisco in exchange for San Francisco’s 2021 first round (12th overall) draft choice, along with the 49ers 2022 and 2023 first-round picks and a 2022 compensatory third-round draft pick.

Miami sends the 12th overall selection to Philadelphia for the sixth overall pick in this year’s draft, and a 2022 first-round pick.  The Eagles will also ship the 156th overall pick to Miami and get the 123rd overall pick in the deal.

QB Jacoby Brissett: Signed a one-year, $5 million contract with a max value of $7.5 million.RB Malcolm Brown: Signed a one-year deal with $1.75 million fully guaranteed.WR Will Fuller: Signing a one-year deal worth $10.625 million fully guaranteed that includes another $3 million in incentives.OT Adam Pankey: Re-signed on a contract.OT Isaiah Wilson: Acquired in a trade with the Tennessee Titans (along with a 2022 seventh-round pick) in exchange for a 2021 seventh-round selectionC Matt Skura: Signing a one-year deal.

OK, so I have to say I was writing up the trade with the Niners for our website and the Fish made the move with the Eagles before I could finish it.