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NFL Power Rankings: Post-free agency

By John Buhler

Oct 17, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15) against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Cardinals defeated the Jets 28-3. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 17, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall (15) against the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium. The Cardinals defeated the Jets 28-3. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports /
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A lot of players switched teams in the early part of 2017 NFL free agency. So let’s power rank all 32 NFL teams after this past weekend’s transactions.

With the start of free agency this past weekend, the NFL calendar officially flipped from 2016 to 2017. As it usually is, the bulk of the heavy free agency traffic happened around 4:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, Mar. 9. Frankly, didn’t most of the news of free agency transactions occur during the legal tampering period in the 48 hours prior?

Did some teams get better, or worse, during free agency? Sure, but we still have a good understanding of how all 32 NFL teams stack up. Here are the updated power rankings in the NFL after this past weekend’s free agency splurge.

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San Francisco 49ers

NFC, West

Though the San Francisco 49ers made some smart moves in free agency, the cupboard is still largely bare for first-time general manager John Lynch. San Francisco may have had a ton of cap space to work with this offseason, but no top-tier free agent was going to sign there.

This is because the 49ers have arguably the least talented roster in football. It’s truly astonishing how bad it has gotten for the Bay Area’s NFC team since the Super Bowl season in 2012.

Thankfully, Lynch and new head coach Kyle Shanahan will have six years to right this sinking 49ers ship. Then again, owner Jed York has had a different head coach in each of the last four seasons. Stability is not a cornerstone of this once-proud franchise any more.

San Francisco added a pair of former Chicago Bears quarterbacks in Brian Hoyer and Matt Barkley. Both are at least serviceable at the position and certainly better than the quagmire in place last year with Blaine Gabbert and Colin Kaepernick.

Adding Pierre Garcon, Marquise Goodwin and Aldrick Robinson to the receiving corps helps. So does overspending on fullback Kyle Juszczyk. That being said, San Francisco will struggle to win games. If Shanahan wants to win more than a handful in his first year on the job, he better hope Lynch does his homework and crushes the 2017 NFL Draft. Otherwise, this could be a painfully long year for a terrible NFL team.

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