With the start of free agency and the 2023 NFL draft now over, this is a good time to survey the league's landscape and highlight some squads that appear to have drastically improved over the past few months.
Whether these clubs brought in elite talent in free agency, drafted blue-chip prospects, traded for game-changing pieces or utilized some combination of all three, they now all feature rosters that are clearly better—at least on paper—than the ones they fielded in 2022.
With that in mind, here are the five most improved teams of the 2023 offseason.
Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers narrowly missed making the playoffs last year, but they made a slew of changes in the past few months that could put them back in the postseason field for the first time since 2017.