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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 sounds good now but would be extremely difficult in 2021. Frank Clark has a $24.2 million cap hit and it would be foolish to rework a deal that ends when Frank is 30.
If Chris Jones has a deal similar to Frank, he’ll get around $23 million in year 2 just like Frank. Then you have Pat who is going to be at least a mid 20’s cap hit in 2021 (year 2 of deal) , likely closer to 30.
That is about 35% of your cap for 3 players assuming it grows $10 million a year as it has to $210 million. Even if the CBA blows up, it won’t blow up that quickly. Assuming it does goes crazy and you add $10 million to it to make that $220 million, it’s still about 33% for 3 players.
That’s why keeping Jones is extremely difficult