The NFL offseason is packaged hope. Say what you will about the league, but the NFL knows how to command attention. Sure it is easy during the season, with the weekly build-up to a slate of games, but the league might do some of its best marketing work in the late winter and early spring. How? By selling fans hope.
Hope in the form of incoming rookies via the draft, and hope in the form of franchise-changing veterans via free agency.
When the 2021 league year begins on March 17. some huge names are going to be on the open market.