Biggest remaining team needs after the first wave of free agency

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

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Plenty of team needs were addressed when the free agency period opened, but not every team can fill every hole by signing players off the market. So what are the biggest needs that remain as we put the first wave of free agency behind us and turn our attention to the draft? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into that question—considering Patriots left tackle, Chargers wide receiver, Bengals defensive line, and more—on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen Executive Producer: Michael Beller Producer: Michael Beller Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert May is. Free agency is, I don't know, it's mostly over.
0:40.5	If we're being honest with ourselves, it's mostly over. There's still the stray Cam Robinson
0:44.8	signings that are going to happen that happened while we were recording today as him landing with the Texans.
0:49.9	So we had to work around that a little bit. But for the most part, a lot of the bigger swings have already happened.
0:55.7	So with that in mind, Derek and I wanted to take some time today to just look at what we think
1:00.6	are the biggest remaining needs left for teams after free agency.
1:05.5	We're not going to hit every team here.
1:07.6	These are kind of the biggest 15 or so needs that we thought were still on
1:11.8	the board after teams have signed most of the players that are going to be signed in free agency.
1:16.3	So we hit about half the league.
1:17.9	A lot of teams that are kind of on the brink of contention here just because their needs feel
1:22.3	a little bit more pressing than a team that has four, five, six of them because they're in
1:27.1	rebuilding mode.
1:28.0	So just keep that in mind when you think about which type of teams we're discussing here.
1:32.6	But let's get to that conversation with Derek right now.
1:41.2	All right, Derek.
1:42.0	This is the, I'm going to say last free agent-based show that we're going to do,
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