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Originally Posted by BossChief
We currently have 13.7m in cap space.
We get 14m for trading Sammy Watkins.
We get 5m for trading/cutting LDT.
We can save 5-6m by extending Kelce deal.
Another 4-5m can be saved by adding on a year or 2 to Fishers deal.
That’s about 43m in cap space.
If we give Jones the same deal as Franks, his 2020 cap hit will be 6.5m.
5m for rookies.
Kemp, Yelder and Wylie are exclusive rights free agents...so they will be ultra cheap.
That leaves around 30m left in team cap space and hopefully 2 draft pics in return for LDT and Watkins.
Most GMs like to have 5-7m in space going into the season so that leaves 23-25m to fill the remaining spots.
Pick 3 of these:
CHJ
AJ Green
Emmanuel Sanders
Logan Ryan
Byron Jones
Mackenzie Alexander
Sean Lee
Lorenzo Alexander
Pick 2 of these:
Pennel
Ogbah
Wisnewski
Fuller (he might be priced out of this group. Someone will overpay him)
That’s realistically what we’re looking at.
Veach will need to be smart with his decisions and hit on all of his draft picks again.
I have faith he will.
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This is what I was looking for. The maximum amount of cap we could have to play with. Assuming your numbers are correct, we could actually improve the team. If we could end up with AJ Green and CHJ replacing Watkins and Fuller, that would be upgrades. Now obviously Watkins and Fuller are much younger, but for the short term, that is a good solution.
And then if it leaves us with any extra to sign a linebacker or offensive linemen, that is icing on the cake. I don't know if we would have to lose Chris Jones in that sort of scenario or we could still swing it.