trents wrote:I heard there are a lot of contracts up next year on the defensive side. Who do you think will stay and who will go?
Not sure where you heard that, but the only significant contract on defense that we have up in 2018 is newly acquired Sheldon Richardson. However, there's a bunch that are up in 2019...both Earl's contract as well as Sherman's is up as is Cliff Avril and Frank Clark, who's still working on his rookie deal, so we'll more than likely negotiate an extension with most of those players.
As far as who stays and who goes, as burrton said, that will depend highly on their performance this season. Obviously Earl's not going anywhere, but all of the others could be moved.
NorthHawk wrote:If Richardson works out, we should have enough CAP room to re-sign him next year however there are a lot of contracts up.
In no particular order here are the 2018 UFA's according to Spotrac:
Austin Davis
Paul Richardson
Eddie Lacy
Thomas Rawls (RFA)
JD McKissic (ERFA) ERFA means Exclusive Rights Free Agent
Jimmy Graham
Luke Willson
Luke Joeckel
Oday Aboushi
Matt Tobin
Isiah Battle (ERFA)
Tyrus Thompson (ERFA)
Sheldon Richardson
Marcus Smith
Dion Jordan (RFA)
Garrison Smith (ERFA)
Michael Wilhoite
Terrance Garvin
Dewey McDonald
Bradley McDougald
DeShawn Shead
Justin Coleman (RFA)
Jordan Simone (ERFA)
Blair Walsh
Tyler Ott (ERFA)
We're not going to keep everyone and some of the players listed above will decide to move on, but if the CAP increases as it has the past few years, it should increase by about $10 - $12 million.
In 2019, the LoB will be up for re-negotiation with players like Clark, Avril, KJ Wright, Sherm, ET, and on Offense Tyler Lockett. I expect a push to sign Clark, Wright, and ET next year but I'm not
so sure Sherman will be here considering last years off season happenings.
idhawkman wrote:They all will have to take a paycut soon or tell the prima donnas of the NFL to stand the F up! They'll all start feeling the pain when the salary caps start going in the other direction every year due to lack of revenues by the teams or league.
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