One guy I am interested in seeing what happens to is
Trey Hendrickson.
He's a former 3rd round pick DE from Florida Atlantic. The book on him has been that he has a ceiling to his athleticism, but he plays incredibly hard. (And, yes, every white player from a small school is described as unathletic and a hard worker. But that's really all you hear about him from the coaches and local media. The guy plays every practice rep like it's the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl. Even in a world where "great motor" is thrown around too much, apparently he really does have a notably amazing motor)
He's only 26 years old, and he's going into unrestricted free agency. And he just put up 13.5 sacks.
But if you really break down the numbers, you see that he got a lot of those sacks against single-team blocks b/c other guys on the D-line got extra attention.
And his high motor means that he's probably at or close to his ceiling.
I think that he's much more of a high-energy rotation guy/average starter than a double digit sack guy. If I had to predict, I would say that this season was a an outlier.
But, he's a 26-year-old DE with double digit sacks hitting unrestricted free agency. And those don't really ever hit the market.
So I am interested to see if some team overpays for him. All it would take is two teams to get into a bidding war to give him stupid money.
Or, do all 32 teams see him like I do?
Like I said, I'm interested to see where he ends up and for how much.