So much for that overcrowded safety market. The position group has had little difficulty finding teams willing to throw money at them so far, much in contrast to last season, in spite of the fact that there is quite a logjam in terms of top and mid-level talent available.
A year ago, there were a number of high-profile safeties who either had to wait substantially to sign a contract—a couple of them even into the start of the 2018 regular season—while other chose to settle for one-year contracts in order to ‘bet on themselves’ and try again in 2019.