Worst Free Agency Moves in NFL History

Worst Offseason Moves in NFL History

A team’s success or demise is usually decided before the season even starts. The offseason is the time to strengthen rosters and coaching staffs… but some teams just ruin themselves for years to come! Franchises throw draft picks down the toilet, trade away Hall of Famers for peanuts, and worse, there is a team that took a Hall of Fame career and ripped it into shreds!

In today’s video, we look at the Worst Offseason trades in NFL History

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A team’s success or demise is usually decided before the season even starts the offseason is the time to strengthen rosters and coaching staffs but some teams just ruin themselves for years to come franchises throw draft picks down the toilet trade away Hall of Famers for peanuts and worse there is a team that

Took a Hall of Fame career and ripped it to shreds this is the grid iron stop me if you’ve heard this one before the Chicago Bears need a quarterback it’s true now and it was true in 2017 the Bears are the only NFL franchise to never have a quarterback

Throw for 4,000 yards in a season in 2017 the Bears saw their guy but they were worried he was Out Of Reach so the Bears struck up a trade with the 49ers they moved from the third pick to the second that was it one spot because they

Wanted to make sure they got Mitch trabis what did they give up in addition to swapping their third pick for the second they gave San Francisco a third rounder and a fourth rounder in that year’s draft as well as their third round pick in the 2018 draft which ended up being

Fred Warner one of the best linebackers in the league today the bears got their guy Mitch trabis he was going to bring them out of the Dark Ages right wrong the Bears have already moved on from from him to Justin Fields trabis had a decent start to his career and

Made the Pro Bowl in his second year but it was all downhill from there he proved not to be the franchise Guy what’s worse in that 2017 draft they could have drafted Patrick moles they missed out on Elite Talent wasted good picks to get the wrong guy

And are still stuck in a vicious cycle of franchise ruining decisions but at least at least Tris played some games for them unlike this next player the Bears mortgaged their future to get a guy who was a fourstar Airbnb but the Raiders sold their house for a

Weekend stay at hotel Antonio Brown at the time Brown had been having a stellar 9-year career in Pittsburgh Seven Pro Bowl appearances two years leading the league in receptions two years leading the league in receiving yards and he just led the league with 15 receiving touchdowns in 2018 so why were the

Steelers so ready to get rid of him well in week 17 of the 2018 season he and Ben rothberger had gotten into an argument at practice and brown skipped practice the rest of the weak his relationship with the Steelers was souring and the Steelers are a loyal and stable organization they’ve had only

Three head coaches over the last 55 years so so they don’t just move on from people including elite pro bowlers was brown really such a loose cannon yep the Raiders traded a third round and fifth round pick in the 2019 draft for brown that third round pick number 66

Overall the Steelers turned into Deontay Johnson also Terry mclen was still on the board at that point if the Raiders really wanted a wide receiver but they now had the pro bowler Antonio Brown who soon gave his own feat frostbite during cryo therapy treatment and missed most of training camp threatened to retire

When the league wouldn’t allow him to keep wearing a helmet band for safety reasons was fined $54,000 for missing team meetings which led to a confrontation with Raiders GM Mike Mayo where he also threatened to hit him and then demanded to be released by the Raiders which he was AB never played a

Single down for the Raiders but was that that the worst move by the franchise ever no we’ll get to that later next up is a team that actually opted out of acquiring a Hall of Famer to instead acquire someone who was barely above average Dante Co Peppers seven years in

Minnesota saw him go to the Pro Bowl three times in 2004 he passed for more yards than anyone else in the league but in 2005 his play dipped he and the Vikings started 0 and2 he had Z zero touchdowns eight interceptions and two fumbles though he rebounded the rebound

Didn’t last long in the seventh game of the season he suffered a major knee injury and went on injured reserve the Vikings were two and five and he had thrown six touchdowns 12 interceptions and lost five fumbles C pepper and the Vikings were ready to part ways another

Quarterback out west was also ready to part ways with his team Drew Brees and the San Diego Chargers the Miami Dolphins were looking at both of these prospects in 2006 Co pepper was recovering from his knee injury and Breeze was recovering from shoulder surgery the Dolphins were originally

More interested in Breeze but wanted him to lower his contract demands he hadn’t yet and rather than wait for Breeze to negotiate the Dolphins chose C pepper C pepper went one and three in his first four games with the dolphins including that fourth game where they lost to the

Houston Texans and their last ranked defense Co pepper threw two touchdowns and three interceptions in that short span and then due to nagging injuries sat the rest of the season and never played for the Dolphins again meanwhile Miami fans with a strong pair of binoculars could see across the Gulf of

Mexico at what could have been Drew Brees in New Orleans lighting it up that very year 2006 Breeze was a pro bowler and led the league in passing yards the rest of his career is well known 11 more Pro bowls six more times leading the league in passing and that Super Bowl

Win ah what could have been but teams don’t just make mistakes with players they make mistakes with coaches too big mistakes although the New England Patriots have made many sneaky good moves over the last couple decades bill bich made a terrible error in 2022 he didn’t name anyone as his offensive

Coordinator he decided to have Matt Patricia serve as the offensive play caller and Joe judge be the quarterback’s coach those names might sound familiar Matt Patricia saw a lot of success as the Patriots defensive coordinator defensive coordinator Joe judge used to be the Patriots special teams coordinator special teams

Coordinator you should notice the heavy emphasis on the fact that they were not offensive guys they both previously had head coaching jobs too Patricia coached the alliance and achieved a 1329 And1 record before getting fired judge had his coaching job with the Giants achieving a 10 and 23 record before

Getting fired so why did bellich think the defense-oriented Patricia and the Special Teams oriented judge could run an offense together after both failing his head coaches that year the offense ended up being garbage and after seeing some success as a rookie M Jones was put in a terrible position and now it looks

Like he’s lost the Patriots took their promising QB broke him watched him worsen in 2023 and dropped themselves to one of the worst teams in the entire league the dynasty days are certainly over not to worry Pats fans you can always relive The Glory Days of when the terrible

Offseason moves by other teams made them better Miami had Wes Welker on their team back when Co pepper was there in that 2006 season was Welker best even amidst all the quarterback changes he had 67 receptions for 687 yards and one touchdown nothing special the Dolphins

Didn’t see value in the 59 slight framed slot receiver so they traded him away for just a second round and seventh round pick to their division rival the Patriots snagged Welker and immediately put him to use the Dolphins didn’t know how to unlock his full potential the Pats clearly did because that next

Season Welker led the league with 112 receptions he also contributed 1175 yards and eight touchdowns to that legendary 16-0 2007 Patriots team Welker went on to have five Pro Bowl years with the Pats and two more years leading the league in receptions Welker was a key part of the patch legendary offense the

Dolphins traded him away for peanuts even worse to their division rival but the Dolphins were only one of the teams to blame for helping create that dominant offense Randy Moss one of the biggest offseason acquisitions ever was New England getting Randy Moss it was also probably the worst move by the

Raiders organization Moss tore the league up in Minnesota funny enough playing a lot of time with Co pepper three separate Seasons with the Vikings Moss led the league in touchdown grabs the Raiders were excited to add him to the team in 2005 but it just didn’t look the same

In 2005 and 2006 Moss had a total of 11 touchdown catches which he usually did in one season in each year with Oakland Moss’s targets were more than double his receptions something that had never happened before in his career that meant that he wasn’t catching more than half

The balls thrown his way people thought he was washed When bellich called the Raiders answered and they took nothing more than a fourth round pick in exchange for Moss what trading away a Hall of Famer for that that very next year was the famous one when Moss broke the record for

Receiving touchdowns with 23 yes that 16-0 Patriot season the league had the Giants to thank for stopping them but the league sure didn’t thank the dolphins of the Raiders for helping build that offense the Raiders just have no luck with receivers or Hall of Famers

But at least they didn’t take a Hall of Fame career and dismantle it like our next team Russell Wilson the Denver Broncos had a championship caliber defense and great offensive pieces they were one quarterback away from being a contender they’d been looking for one ever since Payton Manning and they

Zeroed in on Russell Wilson There were signs that his performance was on a downward trajectory and the fact that the Seahawks were willing to trade him away should have raised a slight red flag maybe the Seahawks were happy with what they got in return turn the Broncos

Got Russell Wilson and a fourth round pick the Seahawks got Drew lock Noah Fant Shelby Harris and five picks two being first rounders Denver was happy to get their Elite 33-year-old quarterback but was he still that good or was he mostly carried by that Stellar Seattle defense the Broncos gave danger Russ a

$245 million 5-year deal what Russell Wilson did in return was struggle they started two and four and only cleared 20 points once in that span Russ was allergic to the end zone a running joke became could he throw more touchdown passes in the season than the number of bathrooms he had in his

Mansion 12 bathrooms even through week 14 he still hadn’t cleared the mark he finished the season with 16 touchdowns 11 interceptions and he was 4 and 11 in his 15 games the 2023 season wasn’t much better the Broncos brought in Shawn Payton who didn’t gel with Russ there

Was so much drama around the team they were a mess even letting up 70 points to Miami the elite Russell Wilson was benched for Jared SDM late in the year which was Denver’s final nail in the coffin for Wilson’s Hall of Fame chances unless Russ can go somewhere and

Resurrect his career the Broncos just dismantled it while also setting themselves back several years worst offseason move in NFL history going down and taking someone else’s Hall of Fame career with you that’ll do it just goes to show that even billion dooll franchises make serious mistakes