Of the 60-plus NFL free agent signings and trades Seth Walder has evaluated this offseason, only a few earned coveted "A" grades. We have broken out the nine free agent signings that Walder really liked this offseason -- the 2025 deals he felt were best from a team-based perspective. Then we asked him to order those deals, with his favorites at the top. But we also added a signing at the bottom that wasn't originally graded as an A but now hits that mark after further evaluation.
To determine each grade, Walder evaluated deals based on multiple factors, including on-field impact, salary cap implications, player value/age and the context of a team's short- and long-term outlook.