cdumler7
Well-Known Member
Sportstrac has NE with just over 10 and Denver just over 6 million. Enough for NE to sign Butler or Collins if they are smart. Tag the other and hope to get Hightower resigned?
Well it depends. Are we talking about a complete re-signing or just adding on extra years to the existing contract?
Just looking at similar players and what they just got. Collins playing that OLB position is probably a lot like what Bruce Irvin just got from the Raiders. So somewhere in that $9-10 million a year range. And you never know maybe that price goes up next year because of the Cap going up once again. So if you sign him long-term this off season to me you are still looking at his first year cap hit being about the same. Maybe instead of $1.2 million you bump that up to around $3-4 million this upcoming season and then pretty big numbers every year after that. Hightower I honestly don't know what his value will be. Same with Butler. I would say if I were the Patriots I would sign Butler sooner than later. That Corner position is getting out of hand.
And for me I look at Overthecap.com. They usually seem to be a bit more accurate but either way $9.9 million or $10.1 million we are talking pretty similar area. Throw in they show the Broncos then at $6.2 million which is more than what overthecap says. So again if the Broncos cut their punter NE has about $1.2 million more than the Broncos in cap space. Considering they drafted a punter good chance that move happens for the Broncos.