Really not understanding why the Pats cut Peppers the other day. They don't have much depth at safety.
Woodson looked to be the same player but younger, cheaper and no off the field baggage.
Our projected starting safeties are Craig Woodson (rookie) and Jaylinn Hawkins (ranked 109th out of 171 safeties in PFF's "Regular" grading metric for 2024), with Duggar I guess as the first off the bench. I was looking forward to Duggar and Peppers being kind of veteran anchors on defense. They are both really good, established safeties (albeit Duggar coming back from injury).
I have no idea if Woodson or Hawkins are going to be as good, sure hope Vrabel knows what he is doing letting these veterans go (Strange, Epps, Peppers, Bourne, Bentley, etc) and going with younger players. If it works out, great, better for the rebuild. But I have some doubts the team is better for all of this right away.
