6 Best Guards and Centers Hitting the Market This Offseason Part 2

BY ADAM GREENE

We wrap up our list of interior offensive lineman that can solve one of your team’s biggest problems a month before the draft at an economical cost, but I’m telling you. One of these guys, mark him off your list. Just do it. The rest are good.

3. GRAHAM GLASGOW, GUARD/CENTER, UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENT

6-5, 310 pounds, 27 years old, PFF Grade: 74.1

Glasgow has toiled away in Detroit since being drafted in the third round of the 2016 NFL draft out of Michigan. Yep. He’s played in that general area for the last eight years and not once been able to safely drink water from the tap.

Glasgow has started 58 out of a possible 64 games in his career and played in 62, so he’s been healthy and effective for a long time, even when you can’t say the same for the team which he plays.

Where he should end up: Washington Redskins

If the Skins let Scherff walk, they’ll need to replace him and Glasgow fits the bill. With Ron Rivera taking over in Washington, their fortunes will be on the upswing and in a division that just added Mike McCarthy as a head coach, this could be an NFC East dynasty in the making.

4. CONNOR MCGOVERN, CENTER, UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENT

6-4, 306 pounds, 26 years old, PFF Grade: 71.9

McGovern earned his way in the Broncos’ starting line up with five games in his second season and has been there ever since, starting 31 games over the 2018-19 campaigns.

The Broncos would certainly like to bring McGovern back and should be buzzing his agent’s phone every day before free agency hits, but it’s likely the former fifth rounder out of Missouri will get a chance to see what he’s worth on the open market.

Where he should end up: Los Angeles Rams

The biggest issue that kept the Rams out of the playoffs this season was the collapse of their offensive line. In spite of that, they still finished with a winning record and were the only team over .500 that didn’t make the postseason. McGovern would be a significant upgrade over Austin Blythe, who is also a free agent. General Manager Les Snead has made the numbers work before and getting McGovern signed up should be a high priority once free agency hits.

5. MATT SKURA, CENTER, RESTRICTED FREE AGENT

6-3, 313 pounds, 26 years old, PFF Grade: 68.7

Like McGovern, Skura had to earn his job on the Ravens through hard work and development after the team signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2016 out of Duke.

He took over as a full time starter in 2017, playing in 12 games and started every game until he hurt his knee in the 11^th game of 2019, finishing up on injured reserve.

Where he should end up: Baltimore Ravens

As a restricted free agent, the Ravens still hold all the cards and instead of lowballing Skura with a tender offer, they should go ahead and sign him up for the next four years. For their offense to work, they need an elite offensive line and you can’t go removing pieces now when you could conceivably make a Super Bowl run for the next five years.

6. RICHIE INCOGNITO, GUARD, UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENT

6-3, 325 pounds, 36 years old, PFF Grade: 74.0

Hey. Don’t do it. I don’t care how he graded out. I don’t care that in a year when everything seemed to go nuts with the Oakland Raiders, Incognito wasn’t a problem. Stay away.

This guy opened the season on a two-game suspension for threatening to shoot up a funeral home, cut off his dead father’s head and being cited for domestic violence over an 2018 altercation with his 90-year-old grandmother. I don’t care that he’s good. I don’t care that he can obviously still play at a high level. Don’t even think about it.

Where he should end up: In a psych ward, extended cognitive behavioral therapy, thoroughly medicated and not in the NFL

Seriously. Nobody sign this guy.

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