Steve Keim has proved excellent at bringing in players on one-year deals and having them make an impact: Eric Winston, Matt Shaughnessy, Karlos Dansby, Antonio Cromartie, Larry Foote, Chris Johnson, Dwight Freeney. They won't all work out, though, and Sean Weatherspoon -- which looked so promising when it happened -- did not work out.

Weatherspoon is re-signing with the Falcons after his one year out West. Weatherspoon only had 12 tackles in an extremely limited defensive role (he played just 125 snaps all season) over 14 games. He needed to show he could stay healthy again and he did that, although it was a red flag to his time in Arizona when he was active but didn't play against the Rams in October and then the next week, was a healthy scratch against the Lions.

It's hard to believe that Weatherspoon played with the first unit through the entire offseason work, although at that point, Deone Bucannon was working a lot at safety too. But training camp came, Weatherspoon's hamstring became a problem, and when he missed most of the month, he had dug himself a hole he could never escape -- especially after Kevin Minter showed more than expected when he was on the field.

To Spoon's credit, he never sulked (although he did seem resigned to the fact early on he wasn't moving up the depth chart). It was clear he wouldn't be around in 2016. And that's the upside about seeking one-year deals. Yes, sometimes a guy like a Dansby blows up and leaves for another team. Then you have a "miss" like Weatherspoon who creates no issue because his contract is up and both sides can just move on.