The Oweh deal got the spotlight and the takes, and we already wrote that one. But three quieter moves from this offseason deserve their own column inches. None are franchise-altering. All three say something about how Adam Peters is building the back half of this roster, and one of them is finally taking a real swing at a problem we’ve been pretending isn’t a problem.
Chig Okonkwo, TE. Ex-Titans tight end signs in the first wave of free agency and the move is barely registering anywhere. It should. Okonkwo was Tennessee’s primary receiving tight end before their offense fell apart. 54 catches in 2023, with the kind of run-after-catch ability that makes a tight end actually matter in an offense. He’s only 26. He’s not Travis Kelce. He’s not even Trey McBride. But he’s a real receiving threat at a position where this team hasn’t gotten meaningful production in years. This is what a value pickup is supposed to look like.
Jake Moody, K. The joke writes itself: we signed the kicker the 49ers gave up on. That’s the take everyone’s running with, and it’s lazy. Look, we needed a kicker. We’ve been spinning that wheel for years, cycling through one stopgap after another, hoping the next one sticks. Moody is a former third-round pick (kickers don’t go in the third for nothing), he’s 26, and the SF situation was at least partly about scapegoating a kicked-around special teams unit. Maybe he’s not the answer. Maybe he is. The question is whether you’d rather try to find out with a 26-year-old former third-rounder, or roll out another Sunday-to-Tuesday rental and hope it works in October.
Dyami Brown, WR. Bringing Dyami back is the move you make if you remember what he did in the playoffs after the 2024 season. The deep ball production. The way he gave Daniels a vertical threat in the moments the offense needed it most. That wasn’t a fluke; that was a player figuring out the route tree at the same moment the offense did. Letting him walk to Jacksonville last year was a mistake. Bringing him back fixes it. This is the easy one to like.
None of these three is Oweh. None of them needs to be. The headline got its move; the back half of the roster got its work in. You build winning teams in the third paragraph of the press release, not the first.