(05-29-2023, 08:06 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: The guarantees communicate the front office intent.  De’Ernest has $50k guaranteed at signing, Ollison has no guaranteed money. Snoop is going into his 2nd year of his rookie 4 year deal.  $326k signing bonus was his only guaranteed money which has already been paid though he would have a dead cap number of $244k for the unaccounted for as of yet signing bonus.  He’s also the cheapest to keep this year at $870k vs ~$1.2M for Johnson and ~$1.1M for Ollison.

Hard to read intent into year 2 of a rookie deal especially if they’ve soured on him.  The other two deals are non-committal and basically saying, “sure, you can come try out for the team but we’re not promising anything.”  I think the signings were  part insurance against the draft board not going as they hoped/expected and part insurance against pre-season injury.  None of these contracts prohibit anyone from getting cut.  Even Hasty who is on a fresh 2 year deal doesn’t have a big enough guarantee to necessarily protect him, but his deal is a lot more committal than the other 3. At the very least it shows they expect him to make the team.

Bottom line is, Johnson or Ollison is likely going to have to show to be significantly better (or more useful on special teams) than Snoop to make the team.  If the difference is negligible, they’ll just roll with Snoop’s youth and cheaper salary.

Snoop doesn't bring anything to the table besides wasted draft picks. He doesn't play Special Teams and could barely get on the field in a weak RB room last year. Doug has already made it a point that he wants his RBs to play ST.

Johnson 55% (16 games), 35% (16 games), 34% (17 games), 52% (15 games) ST snaps throughout his career so far. He also more than held his own when he had to carry the rock. 5.2 average.

Hasty 29% (8 games), 39% (11 games), 37% (17 games) ST snaps throughout his career so far. He added 20% of the Offensive snaps this past season, but that was in a very weak RB room where ETN logged more snaps than he should of because he didn't really have anybody who could relieve him.

Ollison 43% (8 games), 20% (3 games), 33% (8 games), 43% (3 games) ST snaps through his career so far.

They all have the upper hand on Snoop due to STs alone.

Johnson, Hasty and Ollison are all but making the same amount of $$ this season. The only real difference is the dead cap hit. Hasty would have a $300k dead cap hit, Johnson would have a $50k dead cap hit and Ollison would have $0. Hasty has the advantage of having 1 year in the scheme, but Johnson is the better player IMO.

Snoop has a $245k dead cap hit, but none of their dead cap hits are going to be the deciding factor in whether they're cut or not. At least lets hope not. We're talking peanuts here in the big picture of things.

Hopefully they're smart enough to realize they need to eat their losses with Snoop and let him move on. The four should be ETN, Tank, Johnson and Hasty. You then decide whether you want to keep 3 TEs and a FB, or 4 TEs.

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