if you do as you say, how do you fill the olb spot? any pass rush that you really want is going to cost a good chunk of cash. you could draft one, but i think history would show you have a better chance of getting a pro bowl guard in the 2nd round than a pro bowl pass rusher. with that in mind i would sign fowler (assuming i can get him for about 14 per) and then draft a guard in the second. (incidently im assuming corbett will be the center next year as kromer seems to like him there) id also let christian, blythe and zuerlein go. all good players but will probably be cost prohibitive as you can draft their replacements in the latter rounds). further i dont see the point of cutting Hav or Everett Neither makes THAT much money and the cost of replacing them is going to roughly equal and cost saving in cutting them.
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Overt at OverTheCap.com playing around with salary cap and some scenarios. Assuming Whitworth comes back at something close to $10M I have a pretty hard time seeing any of the three defensive starters (Littleton, Fowler, Brockers) returning.
This is after:
- restructuring Goff
- extending AW for one year, $9.5M
- extending Christian and Blythe for two years each
- extending Zuerlein for one year
- trading Havenstein and Everett
- releasing Malcolm Brown
- RFA tenders for Mundt, Fox and Deayon
After these moves and with a rookie draft pool estimate of $4.4M they'd have roughly $14.5M left. Maybe Deayon and/or Fox are not tendered but that $2-4M tacked back on still won't allow them to keep Littleton and sign a couple other bargain FAs. It could, though, let them sign a FA left guard in the $5-7M range and maybe an edge guy in that same range.
Just some thoughts.
