Need to also factor in players that wont be back. Most likely Reader and Zeitler
Contracts will be in a way that the biggest cap hit does not happen this year. 52 million at the moment, if we use Nick Bosa contract ad a guide Hutchinson cap hit will be around 20 first year. It is already 11, so it only eats 9 in cap. A post June 1 cut of Reader cancels that out completely.
There are so many good FAs out there I dont want not squander much draft capital on a trade.
Sweat, Koonce, Chase Young would all be awesome pick ups if we did not trade for any. If Hendrickson could be had for our second I would still take that in a heart beat.
He can play SAM in 3 LB sets too. A little pricey but he is a great tackler which we need more of. No Rodrigo either early in the season most likely. Barnes can do a lot of things too. He is not elite at anything (maybe tackling) but average+ at everything. We will still need to add 1 more. JRM might be done in the NFL(already released). He was not the same after coming back from the neck injury.
He is down to his last chance and it was only 5 mil for 1 year. He is just a veteran presence that can give us a dozen snaps or so a game. The D-Line will get a major overhaul. Give it some time.
Looks like Davenport cap hit is only 1.75
I would not. Lions got the better player with far less injury concerns.
Not sure I would say better. More consistent (especially tackling) and like you said less injury prone. I want tacklers on this defense.
a 2nd and the extension he wants is scary. We need to pay hutch this year or next and those 2 will kill our cap, but man talk about a dominant sack machine line!
Salary cap is never a real thing. The 3 extensions for Sewell, St. Brown, and McNeill count for 30 million of the cap total this year. This number goes up, but it all gets reallocated and moved around. Saints start every offseason a hundred million over the salary cap, and still find money to pay the wrong players too much each year.
