It's been an interesting year of NFL free agency; a lot of teams had money, but the talent pool was not necessarily deep enough to justify spending it. As a result, several teams opted to pay their own players more now and give themselves flexibility into the future.

This offseason’s free-agent frenzy has resulted in new contracts for more than 100 players, but many more remain unsigned, including two former Alabama All-Americans who are ranked as the best available players among the unrestricted free agents.

The Indianapolis Colts signing free agent cornerback Charvarius Ward was named one of the "best" early free agency moves. Ian Valentino of the 33rd Team recently put together his list of the nine best early moves in free agency. Coming in at No. 7 on Valentino's list was the Colts signing Ward.