AFC North Player Movement, Version 3.0

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Here’s a comprehensive chart of offseason player movement among AFC North Division teams (updated through 5 a.m., Monday, March 26). 


An explanation of how the chart works appears at the end of this article.

BALTIMORE RAVENS

PLAYERS LOST: WR Mike Wallace (Philadelphia), C-G Ryan Jensen (Tampa Bay), DE Kapron Lewis-Moore (Jacksonville), WR Kenny Bell (Denver), T Dieugot Joseph (Minnesota), LB Darnell Sankey (Indianapolis)

PLAYERS SIGNED: WR Michael Crabtree (Oakland), WR John Brown (Arizona), S Bennett Jackson (New York Giants)

Ravens’ Brandon Carr (photo, RavensWire, Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports)

RE-SIGNED: CB Brandon Carr (club option retained), RB Alex Collins, G-T James Hurst, DE Brent Urban, QB Josh Woodrum, FB Ricky Ortiz, CB Robertson Daniel, RB John Crockett, T Steven Moore, CB Robert Nelson, TE Vince Mayle, CB Stanley Jean-Baptiste, LB Patrick Onwuasor, G Maurquice Shakir, G Matt Skura, WR Quincy Adeboyejo

STATUS UNRESOLVED: CB Brandon Boykin, G Luke Bowanko, WR-RS Michael Campanaro, TE Crockett Gillmore, T Austin Howard (club declined option), LB Steven Johnson, WR Jeremy Maclin, QB Ryan Mallett, RB Terrance West, TE Benjamin Watson, S Lardarius Webb

SUSPENDED: TE Darren Waller (one year – substance abuse)

RETIRED: RB Danny Woodhead

CINCINNATI BENGALS

PLAYERS LOST: C Russell Bodine (Buffalo), RB Jeremy Hill (New England), DE Chris Smith (Cleveland), QB AJ McCarron (Buffalo), T Andre Smith (Arizona), DT DeShawn Williams (Denver)

PLAYERS SIGNED: LB Preston Brown (Buffalo), QB Matt Barkley (Arizona), T Cordy Glenn (Buffalo, via trade), DT Chris Baker (Tampa Bay), T Bobby Hart (New York Giants)

Javarious Leamon (photo, NFL.com)

RE-SIGNED: TE Tyler Eifert, P Kevin Huber, LB Carl Bradford, K Jonathan Brown, LB Connor Harris, T Javarius Leamon, G Oni Omoile, TE Scott Orndorff, G Kent Perkins, CB Sojourn Shelton, S Robinson Therezie, WR Kermit Whitfield

STATUS UNRESOLVED: CB Adam Jones, LB Kevin Minter, RB Cedric Peerman, DT Pat Sims, T Eric Winston

SUSPENDED: LB Vontaze Burfict (four games – substance abuse, appeal pending)

RETIRED: None

PITTSBURGH STEELERS

PLAYERS LOST: G Chris Hubbard (Cleveland), RB Terrell Watson (New York Giants)

PLAYERS SIGNED: LB Jon Bostic (Indianapolis), DE Casey Sayles (Los Angeles Rams), DB Morgan Burnett (Green Bay)

Fitzgerald Touissant (photo, BehindTheSteelCutain),

RE-SIGNED: DT Daniel McCullers, FB Roosevelt Nix, RB Fitzgerald Touissant, CB Mike Hilton, TE Xavier Grimble, S Jordan Dangerfield, CB Dashaun Phillips, LS Kameron Canady, DT Lavon Hooks, LB Keith Kelsey, WR Justin Thomas, WR Marcus Tucker, P Jordan Berry, T Matt Feller, C BJ Finney

STATUS UNRESOLVED: RB Le’Veon Bell (franchise tag), K Chris Boswell (restricted), LB Anthony Chickillo (restricted), DB Greg Ducre (exclusive-rights), C Kyle Friend, CB William Gay, CB Robert Golden, WR Justin Hunter, C Mike Matthews (exclusive-rights), S Mike Mitchell, LB Arthur Moats, RB Stevan Ridley, WR Eli Rogers (restricted), LB Sean Spence, S Damion Stafford

SUSPENDED: None

RETIRED: None

CLEVELAND BROWNS

PLAYERS LOST: DB CJ Smith (Seattle, via trade), WR Sammie Coates (Houston), T Zach Banner (Carolina), LB Jeremy Cash (Arizona), CB Jason McCourty (New England, via trade), RB Isaiah Crowell (New York Jets), DT Danny Shelton (New England, via trade), QB Deshone Kizer (Green Bay, via trade), NT TY McGill (Kansas City), T Laurence Gibson (New York Giants), CB BW Webb (New York Giants)

Kasen Williams (photo, Dawgs By Nature)

PLAYERS SIGNED: QB Drew Stanton (Arizona), DB EJ Gaines (Buffalo), DE Chris Smith (Cincinnati), G Chris Hubbard (Pittsburgh), CB TJ Carrie (Oakland), RB Carlos Hyde (San Francisco), CB Terrance Mitchell (Kansas City), TE Darren Fells (Detroit), QB Tyrod Taylor (Buffalo, via trade), WR Jarvis Landry (Miami, via trade), CB Damarious Randall (Green Bay, via trade), LB Max Bullough (Houston), WR Larry Pinkard (Jacksonville), WR CJ Board (Tennessee), CB BW Webb (Chicago, subsequently cut), DL Collin Bevans (Arizona, subsequently cut), RB Kelvin Taylor (Atlanta)

RE-SIGNED: WR Kasen Williams, WR Bug Howard, LB Austin Calitro, S Trevon Hartfield (subsequently cut), OL Victor Salako, RB Josh Rounds (subsequently cut)

STATUS UNRESOLVED: DL Ricky Ali’ifua, G Chris Barker (exclusive-rights), LB Tank Carder, OL Joseph Cheek, DL LaVar Edwards, WR Josh Gordon (restricted), DB Jacob Hagen, WR Matt Hazel (exclusive-rights), QB Kevin Hogan (exclusive-rights), LB Josh Keyes (restricted), TE Matt Lengel (exclusive-rights), C Marcus Martin, DT Jamie Meder (restricted), C Austin Reiter (exclusive-rights), RB Dan Vitale (exclusive-rights)

SUSPENDED: None

RETIRED: T Joe Thomas

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This AFC North Division player movement chart is derived from Rotoworld.com’s list of players whose contracts expired when the league signing period began March 14.

The teams’ lists of unrestricted and restricted free agents are thought to be complete, but other roster moves involving lesser-known exclusive-rights free agents may not be reflected here. As transactions involving such players become known, they will be included.

Also, players that are released and become street free agents — the so-called “salary-cap dumps” — will be added to the lists as needed under the “status unresolved” heading.

Restricted and exclusive-rights free agents will be listed as having “re-signed” after receiving tender offers from their clubs, even though those tenders may not have been signed. A tender offer usually means a team is intent on keeping that player on its roster, although it is sometimes used to gauge interest from other clubs.

Draft picks, on most occasions, are commensurate with where the free agent in question was originally selected, and what a team can expect in return if it loses a restricted free agent.

Or, a team can perform an NBA-style sign-and-trade transaction, putting the restricted free agent’s name on a new contract and sending him to another club.

All tendered restricted and exclusive-rights free agents will be indicated as such. If any of those players departs for another team, his name will be moved from the “re-signed” classification to the “free agents lost” category.

The deadline for offer sheets to be signed by restricted free agents on other teams is April 20. Once an offer sheet is signed, the player’s old club has seven days to match the offer, or the offering club immediately assumes his rights.

Players will sometimes change teams because they were placed on waivers and signed by other teams. Those moves are also reflected here, because any unattached player with NFL experience is, technically, a free agent. Several transactions of that type took place before the league year and free-agent signing period began.

Players lost or acquired via trades will also be noted as such.

About Joe Platania

Veteran Ravens correspondent Joe Platania is in his 45th year in sports media (including two CFL seasons when Batlimore had a CFL team) in a career that extends across parts of six decades. Platania covers sports with insight, humor, and a highly prescient eye, and that is why he has made his mark on television, radio, print, online, and in the podcast world. He can be heard frequently on WJZ-FM’s “Vinny And Haynie” show, alongside ex-Washington general manager Vinny Cerrato and Bob Haynie. A former longtime member in good standing of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and the Pro Football Writers of America, Platania manned the CFL Stallions beat for The Avenue Newspaper Group of Essex (1994 and ’95) and the Ravens beat since the team’s inception — one of only three local writers to do so — for PressBox, The Avenue, and other local publications and radio stations. A sought-after contributor and host on talk radio and TV, he made numerous appearances on “Inside PressBox” (10:30 a.m. Sundays), and he was heard weekly for eight seasons on the “Purple Pride Report,” WQLL-AM (1370). He has also appeared on WMAR-TV’s “Good Morning Maryland” (2009), Comcast SportsNet’s “Washington Post Live” (2004-06), and WJZ-TV’s “Football Talk” postgame show — with legend Marty Bass (2002-04). Platania is the only sports journalist in Maryland history to have been a finalist for both the annual Sportscaster of the Year award (1998, which he won) and Sportswriter of the Year (2010). He is also a four-time Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association award winner. Platania is a graduate of St. Joseph’s (Cockeysville), Calvert Hall College High School, and Towson University, where he earned a degree in Mass Communications. He lives in Cockeysville, MD.



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