The free agency market at the safety position was so depressed last season that there were starting players who were still unable to find teams even entering the 2018 regular season. Players like Mike Mitchell and Eric Reid only signed contracts in late September to early October. And it’s not as though it was an extremely week market, though Tyrann Mathieu did get his one-year deal after he was released.
This year’s free agency class at the safety position, however, may be too robust to pass up, and it will be headlined by some All-Pro figures such as Earl Thomas and Landon Collins, with Eric Weddle at age 34 just being dumped into the mix after the Baltimore Ravens announced that they would be releasing him.