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

May is graduation season, so it seems like the natural time to hand out superlatives for each NFL team, hitting the highs and lows of their offseason hauls. Last week, I handed out superlatives to the AFC's 16 teams, hitting on everything from the Browns' quarterback additions to the Chiefs approaching unprecedent levels of inexperience on Patrick Mahomes' blind side.

Now it's time to move to the NFC. Which team is making the rest of the league jealous? Which is spending way less on one side of the ball than anybody else? And which is most likely to be in the trade market between now and the start of the season?

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AFC offseason superlatives: How all 16 teams fared

I'll run through all of those as I make my way across the NFC, but let's start in Dallas, where the Cowboys are seemingly placing more faith in what they saw at the college level than what has actually played out for some struggling players:

Jump to an NFC team:
ARI | ATL | CAR | CHI
DAL | DET | GB | LAR
MIN | NO | NYG | PHI
SEA | SF | TB | WSH

The superlative: Most likely to look at their old scouting reports

For some organizations, it's easier to let go of what you've seen than what you believe. For whatever other faults the Cowboys have, they have typically ranked among the league's best organizations at drafting and developing talent. Of their top 20 players over the past 30 years — by approximate value — 19 began their careers with Dallas, with Deion Sanders as the exception. Team owner Jerry Jones generally drafts his stars and holds on to them until they retire.

If a franchise believes in its scouting process, it might believe there's an opportunity to exploit. If another team takes the player it wanted on draft day and he