8 of 897 cleared a real 2025 floor. Nobody counted across all 32.

8 of 897 available players cleared a real 2025 production floor. A club beat covers its own cuts, but nobody counts across all 32, therefore the hed is the count, not a name.

The join a beat cannot make

The available list holds 897 names. 265 matched to a 2025 line. 2 name-collisions were rejected. 8 cleared a real production floor. The well already did the matching, therefore this piece does not re-join a name to a 2025 line. The floors it names are QB, RB, REC and DEF. The wells are data/nfl/available.json and data/nfl/nflverse/stats_player_reg_2025.csv.

The available pile is 897 names long. The production that cleared a floor is 8 names long. Those are not similar lists. The first is every name a club left off a roster. The second is last season's real production still sitting in that pile. A beat can see the first for one club. It cannot see the second for the league, therefore we printed the second. It requires joining the full league-wide available list against every 2025 statistical line.

The list is the list

8 cleared. These names are not a board of stars. They are the whole cleared set, in the order the well printed them. None of them is the hed.

Geno Stone, S, from BUF, status filed. 64 solo · 2 sacks · 2 INT · 4 PD, 16 games.

Tyrel Dodson, LB, from MIA, status filed. 70 solo · 5 sacks · 1 INT · 3 PD, 16 games.

Sterling Shepard, WR, from HOU, status filed. 39 rec · 371 rec yds · 53 tgt, 13 games.

Michael Carter, KOR, from TEN, status filed. 92 car · 333 rush yds, 13 games.

Jonah Williams, DT, from ARI, status filed. 7 solo · 3 sacks · 0 INT · 0 PD, 10 games.

Clelin Ferrell, EDG, from MIA, status filed. 13 solo · 4 sacks · 0 INT · 0 PD, 8 games.

Zach Harrison, DT, from ATL, status reported. Source: @AdamSchefter / X. 9 solo · 4.5 sacks · 0 INT · 1 PD, 7 games.

Brady Cook, QB, from NYJ, status filed. 153 att · 739 pass yds · -68.3 EPA, 5 games. A quarterback name pulls a hed by gravity, but -68.3 EPA is the argument against that hed, therefore the count leads and his name stays in the list.

Filed is not reported

Stone is filed from the BUF transactions page. Dodson is filed from the MIA transactions page. Shepard is filed from the HOU transactions page. Carter is filed from the TEN transactions page. Jonah Williams is filed from the ARI transactions page. Ferrell is filed from the MIA transactions page, a different stamp than Dodson's. Cook is filed from the NYJ transactions page. Harrison is reported. Those stamps are not the same thing, therefore this piece does not merge them.

The test that kills the finding

If every listed player signs elsewhere within a week, the pool was liquid and the finding is a timing artifact, not a market failure. That sentence belongs in the piece. A count of available production is not a claim that the market refused these names; it is a claim that, as of the well build, they were still on the available list.

What the unmatched names are not

Availability is as of the well build; a player may have signed since. Names unmatched to a 2025 line are UDFA/practice-squad and are NOT counted as no production. 265 is the matched count, not a census of everyone else. We do not have 2025 lines for the unmatched names, therefore we do not call that absence a floor miss.

What this is not

It is not a star ranking. It is not a shopping list. It is not a preview of a game; that attach is empty. It is not a roster verdict. It is not a slate row. It is not a second well: no snap count, no new cite, no hand join. It is not a claim that these names are still available as you read — a player may have signed since.

What moves it

The finding reopens if the well rebuilds and 8, 897, 265 or 2 moves. It also reopens if every listed player signs elsewhere within a week. Until then: 8 of 897, 265 matched, 2 name-collisions rejected, 8 cleared.