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Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter!You better grab some popcorn and put the kids to bed because today is the unofficial start of free agency. Will your kids look at you awkwardly if you try to put them to bed around lunch time? Probably, but that's just how things go once free agency starts.Although free agency doesn't technically start until Wednesday, players are allowed to agree to a deal with a new team starting at noon ET today. (They just can't sign that deal until Wednesday.)By the time you read this newsletter there could already be several deals in place around the league, so to make sure you stay on top of all Tyler Ervin Jersey of those, you're definitely going to . If you're too busy to be following a live blog, you can that will be updated any time one of the top 100 free agents signs a deal.As always, please tell everyone you know to sign up for the newsletter. To get them signed up, all you have to do iswith them. All right, let's get to the rundown. From now until the start of the 2023 NFL Draft, the first day of every week here will be known as Mock Draft Monday. What this means is that Ryan Wilson, our senior NFL Draft analyst, will be unveiling his latest mock draft.This week's mock draft from Wilson is definitely going to look slightly different from last week's and that's because the Panthers turned the draft upside down . The Panthers are so desperate for a quarterback that they decided to move up from the ninth overall spot to the top overall spot.Here's  anthers receive:2023 No. 1 overall pick receive:2023 No. 9 overall pick, 2023 second-round pick (61st overall), 2024 first-round pick, 2025 second-round pick, WR (You )First, let me just say that trades like this almost never happen. This that we've seen a pre-draft trade for the No. 1 overall pick. The only other times it happened came in 2001 (The traded up for Michael Vick) and 2016 (The traded up for ). The unfortunate news for the Panthers is that no team has ever traded up to draft a QB at No. 1 overall and then won a Super Bowl with that QB.So what are the Panthers going to do with their pick? There's some speculation that they , but for now, Wilson has them staying put in his newest mock.Here's a look at his first 15 picks:1. Panthers B Bryce Young (Alabama)2. B C.J. Stroud (Ohio State)3. (via mock trade with )B Will Willie Snead IV Jersey Levis (Kentucky)4. Cardinals (via mock trade with Colts):EDGE Will Anderson (Alabama)5.  L Jalen Carter (Georgia)6. :EDGE Tyree Wilson (Texas Tech)7. B Anthony Richardson (Florida)8. Falcons:CB Christian Gonzalez (Oregon)9. BearsL Myles Murphy (Clemson)10. :EDGE Lukas Van Ne s (Iowa) CB Joey Porter, Jr. (Penn State)11. :OT Paris Johnson, Jr. (Ohio State)12. Texans:OT Peter Skoronski (Northwestern)13. : OT Broderick Jones (Georgia)14. :RB Bijan Robinson (Texas)15. :TE Michael Mayer (Notre Dame) If you want to see how the rest of the first round pans out in his mock, then be sure to . We also took a closer look at what the Bears might do with the No. 9 overall pick and you can .The NFL calendar says that free agency doesn't start until 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, but don't be fooled by that. The real action actually started today when the legal tampering period opened at noon ET. Basically, by the time you read this newsletter, there's a good chance that several deals could already be in place.Once the legal tampering period starts, players are allowed to agree to terms on a contract with a new team. (However, they can't sign the contract until Wednesday.) Once the tampering period starts, things usually get pretty hot and heavy. Since deals could be going down all day Monday, here's another reminder that we Shane Ray Jersey 've put together a tracker for you so that you can stay up to date on everything that has happened so far (). We also have a live blog that will cover signings AND trades as they happen and you can .Also, to help you get warmed up for free agency, here's who will be available. The top guys are usually the ones who get signed first in free agency, so it won't be surprising at all if we see multiple players from this list agree to sign somewhere on Monday.One player you likely won't hear about today is . The QB and other tagged players aren't with other teams until the official start of free agency, which will come on Wednesday. Over the past few weeks, there was a lot of speculation that the Rams were going to trade Jalen Ramsey and a deal finally went down on Sunday when they shipped him off to Miami.Here's olphins receive:Jalen RamseyRams receive:2023 third-round pick, TE .I'm not saying the Rams gave away Ramsey for free, but they kind of gave him away for free. The Dolphins are getting one of the best corners in the NFL for pennies on the dollar. This is like going into a car dealership and getting offered a Ferrari for $8,000. Over the past few years, the Rams strategy has been to trade their draft picks away for star players who cost a lot of money and it's hard to fault them for that strategy, because it's earned them two Super Bowl appearances and one win. However, it's now time to pay the piper and the piper always gets paid.The Rams did free up some salary cap space by trading Ramsey, but they're still over the cap, and because of that, it won't be surprising if we see them release or trade one or two more players this week. TRADE GRADESThe Dolphins acquired Tony Jefferson Jersey Ramsey for almost nothing, so you can probably gue s who we think won the deal. Garrett Podell handed out trade grades to each team and here's what he came up witholphins grade: A.Rams grade: C+.You can check out .In other Dolphins news, Miami decided to . The Dolphins were kind of dragging their feet on this decision, which led some people to believe that they weren't 100% confident in Tua. However, the option means that Tua is now under contract for the 2024 season for a fully guaranteed $23.17 million. This means that Tua is now under contract for the next two seasons for a total of just $24.2 million.For most of the past seven days, the Packers have been noticeably silent when it comes to Aaron Rodgers. However, that changed over the weekend when team president Mark Murphy decided to do multiple interviews while attending the girls state high school basketball tournament in Wisconsin. You don't generally see a lot of NFL news being made at high school basketball tournaments, but that's what we got in this case. Here's what Murphy had to .Murphy doesn't sound like he wants Rodgers back. Murphy was asked if there was any scenario where Rodgers might return to the Packers in 2023 and he gave an interesting answer. "Yeah, I mean unle s, if things don't work out the way we the Packers want them, yeah, we would," Murphy . It doesn't take much to read between the lines there. I don't think the Packers want Rodgers back.Murphy confirms that the Jets were granted permi sion to speak with Rodgers. The Packers were silent on this i sue last week, but Murphy confirmed that the Packers gave the Jets permi sion to meet with Rodgers. "We did give them the Jets permi sion to talk directly to Rodgers ," Murphy said. "But I really can't get into the details, and we are just really hopeful that we can reach a resolution that works not only for Aaron, but for us."Murphy refers to Rodgers in a past tense. "Very few players play for only one team, and obviously Brett had a great career, Aaron HAD a great career here and regardle s of what happens, Aaron will be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he'll be in our Hall of Fame and we'll bring him back and retire his number," Murphy . "But this is just one of the things that you go through as a team." That sounds like a guy who has mentally moved on from Rodgers.As for Rodgers, he did an interview over the weekend and before we know what's going to happen. The ball is 100% in Rodgers' court right now. If he's OK with being traded to the Jets, then a deal is going to happen quickly. Both teams need to know what Rodgers is going to do before Wednesday, so we'll likely know what's going to happen in the next 24 hours. Basically, don Ed Reed Jersey 't be surprised if a Rodgers trade goes down at some point today or tomorrow. There are eight teams in the XFL, and after four weeks, only two of them are still undefeated: The Houston Roughnecks and the D.C. Defenders. Both teams rolled to victories over the weekend. Here are some of the highlights from each of the Week 4 games:Houst |
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