Dez is clearly the number 1 priority, aside from him, my main concern is keeping the OL together since it seems we could have something special there and it should be the foundation of the team for the foreseeable future.
Could we replace Free or Leary?
Probably, and the OL was still pretty solid in limited time without them this year, but this is a group that has the potential to carry an entire team and I want to keep it together as much as possible. I don't think Free will command anything too crazy considering his age and inconsistency over the years, and Leary is an RFA so I'm not particularly concerned about re-signing him right now.
After that I have Murray and McClain, I shouldn't really have to explain those and I think we should be able to get a decent deal with McClain considering his circumstances and that his momentum has slowed a bit with the injuries.
So I guess my 5 would be Dez, Free, Leary, Murray and McClain, although if we take out Leary because he's a RFA I'd put Melton in there.
My only concern with Melton right now is of course the money and the fact that he's only playing about 30 snaps a game, but if we can restructure and bring his cap hit down next year I'd have him after Dez and Free.
Aside from those 6 there is a pretty steep drop off in terms of how important I think our other guys are, but I'd be interested in bringing back Durant (should be cheap and he's a very nice utility LB), Harris, Moore and I guess the various DL in Hayden, Spencer and Selvie. The only reason I'd be interested in bringing back any of those DL is because they should be very cheap, they know the system and provide great depth.