Roster Breakdown by position heading into FA

I thought it might be easier to see where the holes in the roster are by looking at each position and comparing it to last years opening day roster. Names that are striked out are currently not on the roster either as a UFA, an ERFA or a RFA

(warning this thing is brutally long)

QB: Status - needs 1
Jared Goff
Sean Mannion - UFA
Brandon Allen - signed a 1 year futures contract in Feb.

Started with 3 last year, currently 2 under contract. Need 1

RB: Status - Status - needs 1
Todd Gurley
Malcolm Brown - RFA
John Kelly
Justin Davis
Signed - CJ Anderson - UFA

Started with 4 last year, currently 3 under contract. Need 1

WR: Status - needs 0
Brandin Cooks
Robert Woods
Cooper Kupp
Josh Reynolds
Pharoh Cooper - cut in Dec., picked up by Cardinals
Mike Thomas
Signed - Austin Proehl - signed a 2 year futures contract in Feb.
Signed - Jojo Natson - ERFA

Started with 6 last year, currently 6 under contract. Need 0

TE: Status - needs 0
Tyler Higbee
Gerald Everett
Johnny Mundt

Started with 3 last year, currently 3 under contract. Need 0

OL: Status - needs 0 (technically, I would argue you need 2)
Andrew Whitworth
Rodger Saffold - UFA
John Sullivan - UFA, option not picked up
Rob Havenstein
Joseph Noteboom
Brian Allen
Jamil Demby -waived, then re-signed to active roster from Detroits PS
Austin Blythe
Signed - Kyle Murphy - signed a 1 year futures contract in Feb.
Signed- Aaron Neary - signed a 1 year futures contract in Feb.
Signed - Darrell Williams - signed a 2 year futures contract in Feb.
Signed - Kyle Murphy - signed a 1 year futures contract in Feb.

Started with 8 last year, currently 10 under contract. Need 0. Although you could argue you need probably 2.

DL: Status - needs 2
Aaron Donald
Ndamukong Suh - UFA
Michael Brockers
Tanzel Smart
Ethan Westbrooks - UFA
John Franklin-Myers
Sebastian Joseph-Day

Started with 7 last year, currently 5 under contract. Needs 2.

OLB: Status - needs 1
Samson Ebukam
Matt Longacre - UFA
Justin Lawler
Trevon Young - waived, then re-signed to active roster in Dec.
Dominique Easley - UFA
Added - Dante Fowler - UFA
Activated from IR - Ogbonnia Okoronkwo
Signed - Garrett Sickels - ERFA

Started with 5 last year, currently 4 under contract. Needs 1.

ILB: Status - needs 4
Cory Littleton - RFA
Mark Barron - cut in March '19
Micah Kiser
Ramik Wilson - UFA
Bryce Hager - UFA

Started with 5 last year, currently 1 under contract. Needs 4.

CB: Status - needs 2
Marcus Peters
Aqib Talib
Nickell Robey-Coleman
Troy Hill - RFA
Sam Shields - UFA
Signed - Kevin Peterson - cut, then PS, then re-signed to active roster - ERFA
Signed - Dominique Hatfield - cut, then PS, then re-signed to active roster - ERFA

Started with 5 last year, currently 3 under contract. Needs 2.

S: Status - needs
Lamarcus Joyner - UFA
John Johnson
Blake Countess ERFA
Marqui Christian
Isaiah Johnson - waived to make room for AD to come off exempt list
Signed - Eric Weddle - 2 year deal in March '19
Signed - Donte Deayon - signed a 1 year futures contract in Feb.
Claimed - Darious Williams - Claimed from Ravens roster after he was put on waivers
Signed - Steven Parker - signed a 2 year futures contract in Feb.
Signed - Ramon Richards - signed a 2 year futures contract in Feb.

Started with 5 last year (tech. 4 since AD was activated and johnson was cut 5 days before the season started) So I'm gonna go with 4 for now. Currently 7 under contract, 4 of which are waiver claims or futures contracts. Needs (to cut 3) (reality, maybe needs 1)

ST: Status - needs 0
Greg Zuerlein
Johnny Hekker
Jake McQuaide

Started with 3 last year, currently 3 under contract. Needs 0.

Others:
DE - Morgan Fox - tore ACL in May - RFA
WR - Khadarel Hodge - ERFA
OC - JJ Dielman - UFA
TE - Henry Krieger-Coble - RFA

Recap:
QB - 2
RB - 3
WR - 6
TE - 3
OL - 10
total offense - 24

DL - 5
OLB - 4
ILB - 1
CB - 3
S - 7
total defense - 20

K - 1
P - 1
LS - 1
total ST - 3

Currently 47 under contract (of those, 10 are under futures contracts)

Needs -
QB - 1
RB - 1
WR - 0
TE - 0
OL - 0 (I would argue 2 with 4 of the 10 under futures contracts)
DL - 2
OLB - 1
ILB - 4
CB - 2
S - 0 (I would argue 1 with 4 of the 7 under futures contracts)

Restricted Free Agents: (gives original team right of first refusal, ie; match the offer or not match and take the draft pick compensation which is determined by what the team qualified the player with pre-FA. The 3 options are - 1st round compensation, 2nd round compensation, original drafted round compensation)
Troy Hill - CB
Malcolm Brown - RB
Corey Littleton - ILB
Morgan Fox - DL

Exclusive Rights Free Agents: (Once a team tenders an ERFA with a contract that is a one year non-guaranteed contract at the minimum salary level, that player can only negotiate with their team. Usually these offers are signed as soon as they are made since nothing is gained by waiting.)
Jojo Natson - WR
Dominique Hatfield - CB
Kevin Peterson - CB
Blake Countess - Safety
Khadarel Hodge - WR
Garrett Sickels - OLB
Carlos Thompson - OLB

So in my opinion the biggest holes are in order - ILB (needs 4) DL (needs 2) OL (needs 2 in reality) CB (needs 2) OLB (needs 1) QB (needs 1) RB (needs 1)

Credit to Spotrac.com and Overthecap.com for contract details.

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