Report: At least four teams are prepared to offer Tom Brady a contract

It is always difficult to determine what the true market is for a free agent rather than the market the player’s agent is trying to create, but it appears there are plenty of teams with legitimate interest in signing Tom Brady.

ESPN’s Jeff Darlington said on “Get Up!” Wednesday morning that there are at least eight teams monitoring the Brady situation. The reporter says there are four of those eight who would sign Brady “right now,” while the others are keeping a close eye on the situation.

“I have spoken to executives with eight different teams that are at the very least monitoring Tom Brady’s free agency,” Darlington said, via Darren Hartwell of NBC Sports Boston. “They are going down this list having internal discussions right now saying, ‘Is this the right fit for our organization?'”

Darlington noted that the interest between the eight teams and Brady is not necessarily mutual. It seems unlikely that there are seven teams out there other than the New England Patriots that have a chance to sign Brady, but more interest is a good thing for any impending free agent.

Assuming the Patriots are one of the four teams that would sign Brady “right now,” a good guess for the other three would be the Los Angeles Chargers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Tennessee Titans. The Las Vegas Raiders may also be a part of that group, though a recent report claimed they are not planning to go all-out to land Brady.

Brady will turn 43 before the start of next season, so signing him would hardly be a no-brainer for some teams. He makes the most sense for a contender that believes winning the Super Bowl in 2020 is a legitimate possibility, and there is a new team in the mix that may be the most intriguing of all.