Khalil Mack staying put? Trey Hendrickson to the Packers? It's the defense edition of the TAFS free agency preview

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Khalil Mack, Jevon Holland and Josh Sweat headline the available free agent defensive players. Add in a likely Trey Hendrickson trade and a potential Myles Garrett trade, and it could be a fun week for teams that need help on defense. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview free agency on the defensive side of the ball on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Then, The Athletic's Lions beat writer Colton Pouncy joins to discuss what it will take for them to get over the hump. Host: Robert Mays Co-Host: Derrik Klassen With: Joe Buscaglia 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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0:33.9	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
0:36.2	I'm Robert Mays.
0:37.0	The last of our free agency preview shows coming to your guys' way today.
0:41.5	Me and Derek Classen broke down the defensive free agents, hit some of the news from yesterday with the extensions that have already happened.
0:48.2	Talked about the big ticket items in this class, Javon Haaland, Kahliel Mack, DJ Reed, where some of those guys might land.
0:54.5	I did a little rapid fire round where I just told Derek to put each linebacker who's available
0:58.4	in free agency onto a team that he likes.
1:01.1	This is very much his wheelhouse, so kind of let him cook there for a little bit.
1:05.3	Talked about some of the signings that we think are the best fits among this group and then
1:09.3	chatted about some of the potentially realistic free or veteran trades that might be on the table.
1:16.0	It was good timing considering the Trey Hendrickson news happened just after we started
1:20.3	recording.
1:20.8	So we were able to hit what that might look like in his market as well.
1:24.9	Also chatted with our Lions writer, Colton Pouncy, today as part of the series that we
1:30.3	have done about the teams on the cusp in the NFL, two in the AFC, two in the NFC,
1:35.4	what they could potentially do to get over the top this year.
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