Kansas City Chiefs Key Free Agency Signing Named 1 of NFL’s Biggest Bargains

The Kansas City Chiefs swung for the fences and landed a dynamic playmaker in free agency,
signing Hollywood Brown to drop into quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ prolific supportingBrown has earned a PFF receiving grade of 68.0 or better in each of his five NFL seasons. This deal is easy for Chiefs fans to love, especially if they compare it to the three-year, $13 million per year contract signed by Darnell Mooney this offseason.”

It isn’t difficult to imagine Brown elevating Mahomes and the Chiefs’ passing game to new heights, in Kansas City’s quest for a third consecutive Super Bowl championship. cast.

The high end of this contract comes in just below PFF’s contract projection,” Gordon McGuinness writes for PFF. “But, the real value for the Chiefs is that they have mitigated their risk against injury by having up to $4 million tied to incentives.

The Atlanta Braves weren’t extremely active in free agency but, as usual, Alex Anthopoulos went to work on the trade market. The biggest names that Atlanta acquired were Chris Sale and Jarred Kelenic, but Anthopoulos made several under-the-radar trades to improve Atlanta’s roster.

One of those deals saw the Braves land David Fletcher and Max Stassi from the Angels. The Braves would flip Stassi shortly after, but Fletcher was expected to add depth to Atlanta’s infield. He was outrighted off of the 40-man roster, but it felt like Fletcher, a player who received MVP votes in the shortened 2020 season, had a legitimate shot at an Opening Day roster spot.