The safety position is in an interesting place with respect to its value around the NFL. Teams recognize that a great safety, and a great free safety in particular, can be absolutely transformative for a defense. They allow a defense to rip pages out of the offensive playbook while being more aggressive and creative themselves.
Safeties are also becoming much more important as modern defenses struggle to counter increasingly fast offenses. And we have seen the price tags of free agent safeties rise accordingly in recent years. However, we haven’t seen the draft stock of the safety position as a whole change much in recent years.