About this free agency activity...the one thing I'd keep in mind because I see a lot of Jon Asamoah in peoples' mock free agency is that he's probably set to be paid quite a bit. He's 26 years old, a former 3rd round pick, has been starting since his second year and has been getting really strong grades the entire time.
It's not like people in the NFL aren't going to know who Jon Asamoah is. Because of his age there will be an assumption that he only gets better from here. I don't know about "breaking the bank" but he could very well be the highest paid guard on the market. And the Chiefs could also make every effort to keep hold of him. The franchise tag may be cheap for guards. This is a really bare market for guards in free agency. He's the top guy. He's going to get priced up.
I think if you're going to dip into the free agent class at guard then you have to look for someone with a little more stink on them. Geoff Schwartz should have been a Dolphin in 2013 but he's a free agent again after performing really well in Kansas City. Yet the contract he got in KC was just $700k for one year. You're not typically going to see NFL people comfortable with a 1 year/$700k guy turning into a 5 year/$30 million guy overnight. There will be a reluctance there. Yet if you really paid attention to how he's done over the years, the guy has played well going back to his days in Carolina. There's something there be it injury or character related that keeps teams nervous about giving him money...which is something you find in a guy like Antwan Barnes as well. But that doesn't mean you couldn't grab him and get pretty good guard play out of him.
There's something stank in Geoff Schwartz' locker and the Dolphins could get him without a big contract because of it. But they could still be getting a good performer.
I'm not sure there's another guard I'd look at on this market unless it's Rodger Saffold to convert to right guard. Maybe Shelley Smith, whom I've liked since the draft.
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