(01-17-2023, 10:41 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(01-17-2023, 10:26 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote: I have trouble seeing a scenario (barring injury) where our tackles next year aren't Cam and Little with Taylor being let go.  Cam costs us more to cut than to keep.  Considering we're over the salary cap and have some players to sign, I don't see Baalke making our cap worse by getting rid of a starter.  The cap implications of trading are the same as if he was cut.  I also see us getting very little trade value in return given Cam's salary. 

If we cut him after June 1st, we save around a million.  That's in the neighborhood of the veteran minimum.  How are we going to find a suitable replacement for that money?  Some may say the draft, but I think the team will prefer to use the draft to upgrade another position instead of finding a replacement for a player they could have kept.  If they are going to cut a starter and draft a replacement, they will do it with a player that provides significant cap savings.

Cam's contract has an "out" after the 2023 season.  I think they'll wait until at least then if they want to move on from him.

In hindsight they should of let Cam go this past off season and let Little start at LT. They could have then re-signed Taylor this off season and you can just focus on LG and finding a swing tackle in the draft. Instead Taylor will likely walk and we'll be stuck with the problem of which one of our LTs are going to move over to the right side. Little looks far more natural on the left side and Cam probably wont want to switch over to RT. I'd rather see Little stay at LT from here on out.

I don't see anybody trading for Cam and his contract, especially coming off a knee injury that ended his season. They certainly can't just cut him either.