Linebacker Denzel Perryman is No. 54 on our list of this year’s top free agents http://www.oaklandraidersteamonline.com/isaiah-johnson-jersey , but the Chargers would prefer if he didn’t make it to March 13 without a new contract.Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the team is trying to sign Perryman to a new deal before the start of the new league year next Wednesday.Perryman has been an effective piece of the Chargers defense when healthy, but the healthy part of the equation has been a tricky one for him the last couple of years. Perryman played only nine games last year due to a knee injury and he was limited to seven games in 2017 after opening the regular season on injured reserve with an ankle injury.Perryman had 88 tackles and an interception in the 16 games he has played the last two years. A short-term, prove-it deal might be in the cards wherever he winds up and it may work out best for him to wait until he’s able to hear from other teams before committing to a return to the Chargers. Another good night for Daniel Jones on Thursday led to another round of questions for Giants head coach Pat Shurmur about when the first-round pick might supplant Eli Manning as the team’s starting quarterback.Shurmur’s answer didn’t vary too much from other times he addressed the question http://www.oaklandraidersteamonline.com/hunter-renfrow-jersey , but, as noted on , he stopped short of unequivocally saying that Manning would be the starting quarterback for the first week of the regular season while mentioning there are still a couple of weeks before the Giants play Dallas in Week One.Friday brought a conference call and more quarterback questions. Shurmur called Manning the starter this time while otherwise sticking to the talking point that they are working to make sure Jones is ready when it is his time to play.“Eli’s our starter http://www.seattleseahawksteamonline.com/marquise-blair-jersey , and we’re getting Daniel ready to play,” Shurmur said, via Bob Glauber of . “[Jones] has done a good job in the preseason. He’s getting better and he’s going to do continue to do that http://www.seattleseahawksteamonline.com/cody-barton-jersey , so that at whatever time we need him to play, he’ll be ready.”The message from higher up the organizational food chain has been that the best-case scenario is that the job remains Manning’s for the entire season, but there’s little doubt that any bumps in the road for the offense will be met by calls to hand the reins over to the first-round pick. The bigger the bumps http://www.seattleseahawksteamonline.com/phil-haynes-jersey , the easier it will be to sell it as the time to make a change and, for now, it seems like that may be what the Giants will wait for before pulling the trigger.