Off-season report cards: Grading the NFC
The aftershocks of free agency and the draft have subsided around the NFL—now teams have all summer to examine the strengths and weaknesses up and down their rosters. To recap all the biggest moves and get an early sense of who improved the most since the lights went out on Super Bowl LI, we filled out report cards for every NFC team in order to reset the landscape ahead of training camp.
Call these progress reports instead of report cards, if you must—after all, teams have two months to adjust their rosters before the long lead-up to Week 1 reveals how players on the move around the league are settling into their new homes. Still, it’s hard to imagine many unsigned veterans can drastically change a team’s 2017 outlook.
Below, SI/MMQB writers Emily Kaplan, Jonathan Jones, Chris Burke and Andy Benoit analyze (and criticize) the off-season moves of all 16 NFC teams. The report cards are listed in order of ascending grade.
