Updated through Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 1 a.m. ET.
The following comprehensive chart of off-season player movement among AFC North Division teams, one of football’s best four-team groupings, will outline all activity before the 2023 season commences. An explanation of how the chart works appears at the end of this article. All remaining free agents are unrestricted unless otherwise noted.
BALTIMORE RAVENS
PLAYERS LOST: TE Josh Oliver (Minnesota), G Ben Powers (Denver), S Chuck Clark (New York Jets, via trade)
PLAYERS SIGNED: CB Trayvon Mullen (Dallas)
PLAYERS RE-SIGNED: DE Brent Urban, CB Daryl Worley, ILB Roquan Smith (extension), T David Sharpe, WR Andy Isabella, FB Ben Mason, WR Shemar Bridges, WR Mike Thomas, G John Simpson, DT Rayshad Nichols, OLB Jeremiah Moon, CB BoPete Keyes
STATUS UNRESOLVED: QB Lamar Jackson (non-exclusive franchise tag), DE Calais Campbell, WR DeSean Jackson, RB Justice Hill, CB Kyle Fuller, CB Marcus Peters, DE/LB Justin Houston, T Ja’Wuan James, WR Sammy Watkins, DE Jason Pierre-Paul, DE Steven Means, RB Kenyan Drake, WR Demarcus Robinson, OLB Vince Biegel, CB Kevon Seymour, RB Ricky Person, QB Tyler Huntley (restricted), C Trystan Colon (restricted), ILB Kristian Welch (restricted), S Geno Stone (restricted), LB Del’Shawn Phillips (restricted), LS Nick Moore (exclusive rights)
SUSPENDED: None
RETIRED: None
CINCINNATI BENGALS
PLAYERS LOST: S Jessie Bates (Atlanta), S Vonn Bell (Carolina)
PLAYERS SIGNED: CB Chris Lammons (Kansas City)
PLAYERS RE-SIGNED: LB Germaine Pratt, S Michael Thomas, LB Joe Bachie, CB Jalen Davis, LS Cal Adomitis, TE Nick Bowers, QB Jake Browning, DE Owen Carney, OT Devin Cochran, S Yusuf Corker, DT Domenique Davis, G Nate Gilliam, TE Tanner Hudson, DE Raymond Johnson III, LB Keandre Jones, WR Kwamie Lassiter II, CB Marvell Tell III
STATUS UNRESOLVED: CB Eli Apple, TE Hayden Hurst, CB Tre Flowers, RB Samaje Perine, QB Brandon Allen, TE Drew Sample, LS Clark Harris, G Max Scharping, WR Trent Taylor, RB Trayveon Williams, DE Wyatt Hubert, LB Clay Johnston (exclusive rights), TE Mitchell Wilcox (exclusive rights)
SUSPENDED: None
RETIRED: None
PITTSBURGH STEELERS
PLAYERS LOST: CB Cameron Sutton (Detroit)
PLAYERS SIGNED: CB Patrick Peterson (Minnesota), LB Quincy Roche (New York Giants), WR Dan Chisena (Minnesota), WR Dez Fitzpatrick (Tennessee), CB Madre Harper (Carolina), S Kenny Robinson (Carolina), CB Chris Wilcox (Arizona)
PLAYERS RE-SIGNED: LS Christian Kuntz, LB Jamir Jones, LB Tae Davis, WR Anthony Miller, RB Anthony McFarland, DT Renell Wren, LB Chapelle Russell, WR Ja’Marcus Bradley, DB Duke Dawson, G William Dunkle, LB Emeke Egbule, RB Jason Huntley, C Ryan McCollum, DB Scott Nelson, RB Master Teague, WR Cody White, TE Rodney Williams
STATUS UNRESOLVED: QB Mason Rudolph, CB William Jackson, DB Carlins Platel, DE Larry Ogunjobi, ILB Devin Bush, FB Derek Watt, G Jesse Davis, DE Tyson Alualu, S Terrell Edmunds, S Marcus Allen, LB Robert Spillane, OLB Malik Reed, DT Chris Wormley, S Damontae Kazee, G Trenton Scott, S Karl Joseph, WR Miles Boykin, RB Benny Snell, TE Zach Gentry, WR Steven Sims, Jr. (restricted), C J.C. Hassenauer (restricted), CB James Pierre (restricted), CB Elijah Riley (exclusive rights)
SUSPENDED: None
RETIRED: None
CLEVELAND BROWNS
PLAYERS LOST: DE Chase Winovich (Houston)
PLAYERS SIGNED: DE Ogbonnia Okoronkwo (Houston), DT Dalvin Tomlinson (Minnesota), RB Nate McCrary (Carolina), T Michael Dwumfour (San Francisco)
PLAYERS RE-SIGNED: C Ethan Pocic, WR Daylen Baldwin, WR Mike Harley, WR Marquez Stevenson, T Tyrone Wheatley, S Bubba Bolden, LB Stoney Jackson, DE Sam Kamara, RB John Kelly, TE Zaire Mitchell-Paden, DT Roderick Perry, CB Thomas Graham (tendered), DT Ben Stille (tendered)
STATUS UNRESOLVED: QB Jacoby Brissett, RB Kareem Hunt, DE Jadaveon Clowney, ILB Deion Jones, ILB Anthony Walker, DT Taven Bryan, T Chris Hubbard, CB Greedy Williams, S Ronnie Harrison, RB D’Ernest Johnson, DE Stephan Weatherly, TE Pharoah Brown, TE Jesse James, LB Jordan Kumaszyk, LB Sione Takitaki, T Michael Dunn (restricted), TE Chris Odom (restricted), CB Thomas Graham (exclusive rights), CB A.J. Green (exclusive rights)
SUSPENDED: None
RETIRED: None
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This AFC North Division player movement chart is derived from Spotrac.com’s list of players whose contracts expire when the league signing period begins on March 15. The teams’ lists of unrestricted and restricted free agents are considered 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 intends to keep 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 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 21. 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 occurred before the league year and the free-agent signing period began. Players lost or acquired via trades will also be noted as such.
