Chargers, Dolphins or Colts? Which team has won the NFL offseason so far?

The NFL has had its wildest offseason in recent memory. The quarterback carousel has been spinning. Record contracts have been inked. And it feels like just yesterday that Aaron Rodgers was getting intimate with oils. Here are the winners of the offseason so far.

A quick note: these are the teams that have improved their chances the most for next season.

When you move on from Drew Lock and land Russell Wilson, you know you’ve had a good offseason. There are fair questions about the fit between Wilson and the Broncos’ new head coach, Nathaniel Hackett. It isn’t a seamless melding of minds. And you can point, too, to the possibility that Wilson’s game may not age well. He still relies on his mobility as much as any of the game’s upper-tier quarterbacks. What will a Wilson offense look like once his legs start to go?

But that’s tomorrow’s problem! The AFC West is now a year-to-year gauntlet. If you’re bringing anything other than a top-eight quarterback to the proceedings, then there is no chance that you’re making the playoffs.

The Broncos started the offseason with a bottom-three quarterback situation and catapulted themselves into that small cluster of teams who can conceivably claim to have one of the five best in the game (two others happen to be in the same division). And all for a quartet of draft picks and a trio of peripheral players Denver will soon forget about.

Having a top-five quarterback on a rookie-scale contract is the sport’s top market inefficiency. The Chargers took full advantage of their situation early in the offseason, investing aggressively, both in terms of cash and draft capital, in an attempt to improve their obvious flaws.

First up: A historically awful run defense. Brandon Staley, the team’s