Should Wilkins be #1 FA target if not tagged?

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(01-16-2024, 06:15 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Or some use "29-Year" because it's literally the standard and you can instantly find it for every single player who is playing or has played in the NFL and you don't have to look at exactly what day and month their birthday is, figure out how many games into the season that would be, when week 1 is going to start that year, etc. Even if we were going to say Wilkins being 28 years and 9 months at the start of the regular season was his age 28 season, that's still not young and my entire point of needing to work in some youth (and inexpensive youth at that) and develop it to go with the older expensive guys still stands.

The problem with your way is Brandon Weeden's 1st year was his age 29 season, Margus Hunt's 1st year was his age 26 season, and Ja'Marr Chase's 1st year was his age 21 season. Chase's 5th year he's in his prime for his age 25 season, but Weeden's 5th year he's in his age 33 season and already pretty much done. Then you have other cases like Cameron Wake whose 1st year (in the NFL) was his age 27 season and Andrew Hawkins whose 1st year (in the NFL) was his age 25 season, but they both spent multiple years playing professional football in the CFL before that.

At what age does the NFL consider a player a vested veteran?