NFL Player Movement, AFC North (Chart 4.0)

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Here’s my fourth offering of a comprehensive chart of offseason player movement in the AFC North.


Here’s a comprehensive chart of offseason player movement among AFC North Division teams. An explanation of how the chart works appears at the end of this article.

(Complete through 7 a.m., April 11, 2019)

BALTIMORE RAVENS

PLAYERS LOST: WR John Brown (Buffalo), LB Za’Darius Smith (Green Bay), LB Terrell Suggs (Arizona), LB CJ Mosley (New York Jets), S Eric Weddle (Los Angeles Rams), QB Joe Flacco (Denver, via trade), WR Tim White (New York Jets)

PLAYERS SIGNED: WR Seth Roberts (Oakland), ST/CB Justin Bethel (Atlanta), RB Mark Ingram (New Orleans), S Earl Thomas (Seattle), LB Matthew Thomas (Pittsburgh)

RE-SIGNED: CB Stanley Jean-Baptiste, QB Robert Griffin III, CB Brandon Carr (option exercised), LB Patrick Onwuasor (tendered), DT Michael Pierce (tendered), TE Nick Boyle, CB Tavon Young (extension), G Kofi Amichia, T Randon Crecilius, CB Robertson Daniel, RB Tyler Ervin, FB Christopher Ezeala, S Bennett Jackson, LB Alvin Jones, TE Nick Keizer

STATUS UNRESOLVED: WR Michael Crabtree, RB Buck Allen, RB Ty Montgomery, DE Brent Urban, TE Maxx Williams, RB Alex Collins, T Steven Moore (untendered), WR Quincy Adeboyejo, RB Gus Edwards, T-G Jermaine Eluemunor, C Matt Skura, RB De’Lance Turner, WR Janarion Grant, T Jake Rodgers, LB Bam Bradley, CB Jaylen Hill

SUSPENDED: None

RETIRED: None

CINCINNATI BENGALS

PLAYERS LOST: QB Tom Savage (Detroit), T Jake Fisher (Buffalo), LB Vontaze Burfict (Oakland), T Cedric Ogbuehi (Jacksonville), TE Tyler Kroft (Buffalo), S Chris Cooper (Kansas City)

PLAYERS SIGNED: DE Kerry Wynn (New York Giants), G John Miller (Buffalo), CB BW Webb (New York Giants), QB Brad Kaaya (Indianapolis, subsequently released and untendered)

RE-SIGNED: CB Darqueze Dennard, TE Tyler Eifert, ILB Preston Brown (extension), TE CJ Uzomah, T Bobby Hart, S Brandon Wilson, WR Moritz Boehringer, DB Demetrious Cox, TE Andrew Vollert, C Brad Lundblade, WR Kermit Whitfield, DT Andrew Brown, G Trey Hopkins, CB Tony McRae, G Alex Redmond, DT Josh Tupou

STATUS UNRESOLVED: DE Michael Johnson, ILB Vincent Rey, T Andre Smith, ILB Kasim Edebali, DT Adolphus Washington, TE Matt Lengel (untendered), RB Mark Walton

SUSPENDED: None

RETIRED: None

PITTSBURGH STEELERS

PLAYERS LOST: S Morgan Burnett (Cleveland), ILB AJ Fort (Philadelphia), RB Le’Veon Bell (New York Jets), TE Jesse James (Detroit), WR Antonio Brown (Oakland, via trade), T Marcus Gilbert (Arizona, via trade), LB Matthew Thomas (Baltimore)

PLAYERS SIGNED: LB Mark Barron (Los Angeles Rams), WR Donte Moncrief (Jacksonville), CB Steven Nelson (Kansas City), LB Tegray Scales (Indianapolis), RB Malik Williams (Atlanta)

RE-SIGNED: OLB Anthony Chickillo, WR Eli Rogers, DT Daniel McCullers, G Ramon Foster, C Maurkice Pouncey (extension), DE Tyson Alualu, T Zach Banner, LB Keion Adams, WR Trey Griffey, DT Lavon Hooks, CB Herb Waters, WR Tevin Jones, RB Ralph Webb, G RJ Prince, C Patrick Morris, TE Christian Scotland-Williamson, TE Bucky Hodges, C BJ Finney, TE Xavier Grimble (tendered), CB Mike Hilton (tendered), RT Matt Feiler, P Jordan Berry

STATUS UNRESOLVED: CB Coty Sensabaugh, WR Darrius Heyward-Bey, WR Justin Hunter, SS Nat Berhe, RB Stevan Ridley, DE Leterrius Walton, LS Kameron Canaday, S Jordan Dangerfield, TE Jake McGee (untendered), LB Keith Kelsey (untendered), S Malik Golden (untendered), T Joseph Cheek (untendered), K Matt McCrane, CB Trey Johnson

SUSPENDED: None

RETIRED: None

CLEVELAND BROWNS

PLAYERS LOST: DE Emmanuel Ogbah (Kansas City, via trade), CB EJ Gaines (Buffalo), TE Darren Fells (Houston), T-G Earl Watford (Tampa Bay), CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun (Houston), QB Tyrod Taylor (Los Angeles Chargers), WR Breshad Perriman (Tampa Bay), S Jabrill Peppers (New York Giants, via trade), G Kevin Zeitler (NY Giants, via trade), C Jake Eldrenkamp (New England), LB Tanner Vallejo (Arizona), S Derrick Kindred (Indianapolis), WR Ricardo Louis (Miami)

PLAYERS SIGNED: S Morgan Burnett (Pittsburgh), S Eric Murray (Kansas City, via trade), G Brian Witzmann (Chicago), T Kendall Lamm (Houston), LB Adarius Taylor (Tampa Bay), G Eric Kush (Chicago), TE Demetrius Harris (Kansas City), WR Odell Beckham, Jr. (New York Giants, via trade), DT Sheldon Richardson (Minnesota), DE Olivier Vernon (NY Giants, via trade), WR Jaelen Strong (unattached)

RE-SIGNED: DT Carl Davis, CB Phillip Gaines, OLB Ray-Ray Armstrong, T Greg Robinson, CB Ashton Lampkin, DT Daniel Ekuale, CB Robert Jackson, C Kyle Friend, DT Devaroe Lawrence, RB Devante Mays, CB Lenzy Pipkins, S Tigie Sankoh, T Brad Seaton, WR Daniel Williams (subsequently cut), WR Rashard Higgins, DT Trevon Coley, S Jermaine Whitehead, CB Juston Burris, TE-FB Orson Charles

STATUS UNRESOLVED: LB Jamie Collins, WR Rod Streater, T Mason Gentry, DB Howard Wilson

SUSPENDED: RB Kareem Hunt (eight games – personal conduct policy)

RETIRED: None

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This AFC North Division player movement chart is derived from Spotrac.com’s list of players whose contracts expired when the league signing period began March 13.

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 depart 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 19. 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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