2025 NFL offseason: AFC teams' best and worst deals, picks - ESPN

May is graduation season, making it the perfect time to hand out superlatives to NFL teams. With organizations having signed every free agent they wanted and delighted to have the best players on their board somehow fall to them in each round of April's draft, there are 32 teams that feel great about where their rosters stand heading into training camps later this summer. It's very easy for them to be optimistic right now.

What stood out about how each franchise handled the offseason? How did teams fill the weak spots in their lineups? What was notable about the choices they did (or did not) make? And what does all that tell us about how they will do in 2025?

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I'm handing out superlatives and breaking down what I found interesting about the offseason of every AFC team. I'll hit the NFC next week. Let's begin with the AFC East, where one of the league's best-run franchises appears to have learned from a rare misstep.

Jump to an AFC team:
BAL | BUF | CIN | CLE
DEN | HOU | IND | JAX
KC | LAC | LV | MIA
NE | NYJ | PIT | TEN

The superlative: Most likely to stay the course

Three years ago, general manager Brandon Beane responded to a crushing playoff loss to the Chiefs by doing something out of character: going all-in. After years of using free agency to target solid veterans around his young core, he handed Von Miller a six-year, $120 million deal with three seasons almost entirely guaranteed. The hope was that signing the former All-Pro edge rusher would be enough to get the Bills over the hump, but Miller was limited by injuries and a four-game suspension and had only 14 sacks over three seasons. The move did not work out.

With the Bills cutting Miller this offseason after another