With our glaring hole on the interior, I wonder if we actually did convince him to be a guard at least in the short term.

 

Due to his knee, maybe teams are only offering 1-2 years at roughly $2-3 million per because they're worried about his ability to be effective this season, while we're offering him something like $6 million per season to play guard with a promise he can move to tackle in the event Joeckel struggles. He could cash in by playing guard with us and prove to the league that his knee is alright then hit the free agency again next season to try to cash in as a left tackle.

 

Or maybe we do just want to move on from Joeckel, but that still leaves us to figure out the interior of our line.

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