(12-11-2023, 07:13 AM)irontrooper83 Wrote: DL situation will be key in the offseason too.

Hamilton was extended (rightly so in my opinion) but after his injury his play has been abysmal. IF the issue is stricly physical we can expect him to be back to his normal self next season...again if there aren't other issues we don't know of.

Fatukasi was restructured and Roy Robertson Harris was extended after a good 5 games stretch last year. The thing is Fatukasi is almost never fully healthy and he isn't a difference maker, RRH hasn't been playing to a really high level either.

Both these guys have big dead money cap hits if cut pre June (around 9-10M each), around 4M each if cut post june.

The amount of money allocated on IDL isn't matching at all with the play we are getting from these guys.

To give context we are likely going to cut Darious Williams who has almost no dead cap hit (creating another hole) and have to keep at least one of these guys.

Not an easy situation.

Your cuts (replacement) for next season:

Sherff (Tugboat) saves $16.5 million
Robinson (Little) saves $16.6 million
Williams (Brown) saves $10 million
Jenkins (Johnson) saves $9 million
Fatukasi (Lacy) saves $8 million

There's plenty of money sitting in guys we can replace fairly easily in the offseason. I just wish we'd spent draft capital on big guys already since they take a year to really develop; we're behind in the timeline for this and it's showing in how weak our backups are right now.

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