- Thread starter
- #1
this has to have at least something to do with the salary cap. Kearse can still play.
Bout damn time
The team can save $2.2M against this year's cap by cutting Kearse and splitting the remaining bonus proration between this year and next. It's only a wash if they cut him and take all the remaining cap hit in the current year, which they can if they so choose.
I think this is as much about not wanting to expose some younger talent on the PS as it is about anything else. Last year we were able to put Kasen Williams on the PS and not worry about another team snapping him up. Not sure we could get away with that this year, given how he's performed. Probably the same with McEvoy, who in my opinion can do anything Kearse can do but for much less $.
Trade him before you have to cut him. Makes sense to me.
The team can save $2.2M against this year's cap by cutting Kearse and splitting the remaining bonus proration between this year and next. It's only a wash if they cut him and take all the remaining cap hit in the current year, which they can if they so choose.
I think this is as much about not wanting to expose some younger talent on the PS as it is about anything else. Last year we were able to put Kasen Williams on the PS and not worry about another team snapping him up. Not sure we could get away with that this year, given how he's performed. Probably the same with McEvoy, who in my opinion can do anything Kearse can do but for much less $.
Trade him before you have to cut him. Makes sense to me.
We've got this discussion fragmented a bit between 2 diff threads, but no biggie I guess.Even if you trade a player the signing bonus in the current year + any future years is still a hit to the team and accelerated forward meaning you take it that year as a cap hit.
Jermaine Kearse
So the dead cap would be $3.6M ($1.8M signing bonus x 2 - for this year and the next) against his actual cap of $4M. We'd only save like $400K. But we save $7M cap hit next year which is pretty huge.
I think I probably agree the chance he's cut is great than the chance of a trade, but it's also possible a trade would come with a restructure on the new team. That would make a trade a bit more money friendly.Kearse wont be traded, nobody will pay that salary for a #4 wr. He will be cut
We've got this discussion fragmented a bit between 2 diff threads, but no biggie I guess.
Overthecap has a cool feature where you can click a drop-down and find out cap implications for a pre-1 June cut, a post-1 June cut, and a trade. The post-1 June rules allow the remaining SB proration to be split between current year and following year. That's where the $2.2M savings come from. I am not sure it works the exact same in a trade because the cap implications on Kearse for "trade" and "pre-1 June" are identical -- all remaining guaranteed $ accelerated to current year.
But yeah, Kearse's salary for 2018 makes him an inevitable cut before then if he's not traded or restructured. There's just no way this team is going to pay him $5M next year and swallow a cap hit of $6.8M. But if he makes the team this year, we'll still be on the hook for $1.8M in '18. It's the exact same hit we'll take by cutting him now and splitting that $3.6M in half.
Kearse wont be traded, nobody will pay that salary for a #4 wr. He will be cut
True.Kearse wont be traded, nobody will pay that salary for a #4 wr. He will be cut
Well the Browns are thin at WR, but they do have a couple of WRs they drafted but haven't been given much of a opportunity yet. On the positive side they got cap space to burn with 62 million of cap space, so maybe.Well, Kearse has value. Only some 12s think he's a #4 WR. The Browns are short on WR talent and need some pass catchers to give Kiser some targets to. In a league where you need at least 3 WRs, Cleveland has only 2.