Free Agent Mock: For this mock, I utilized the over the cap website. They have a calculator in which you can sign players for different contracts and it will calculate remaining salary cap and whatnot. http://overthecap.com/calculator/jacksonville-jaguars/ For this, I was looking at contracts Caldwell has handed out to different players as far as signing bonuses, roster bonuses, guaranteed money and so on, and mixed this with what players similar to intended targets have gotten in the past and then factored in making it more likely the player would sign, such as front-ending contracts and so on. Unfortunately, you can't save your results, so here is basically where I had ended.

 

Resign:

Alan Ball                    2 year - 900K/year

Tyson Alualu             5 year - 3m/year

JT Thomas                4 year - 900K/year

Ryan Davis                4 year - 1m/year

Austin Pasztor           4 year - 1m/year

 

Restructured/Extended to cheaper deals:

Paul Posluszny          3 year - 5m/year

Marcedes Lewis         3 year - 3m/year

 

Free Agents:

Julius Thomas            5 year - 9m/year

Jeremy Maclin            5 year - 10m/year

Bryan Bulaga             5 year - 7m/year

Devin McCourty         5 year - 10m/year

Ndamukong Suh        5 year - 20m/year

 

 

Between resignings, restructurings to gain more money and then front loading the contracts, the remaining cap space was just over 12 million. What I really like about this was the front loaded contracts are more appealing to the players and I structured them in ways that the real life player would highly consider signing it. We still had 12 million left and due to the front loaded nature, lots of money would be opened up by the time we need to sign our own players.

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