03-23-2025, 04:50 PM
(03-23-2025, 02:48 PM)phil413 Wrote: So with a 10M rollover more like 7.3M. Puts them at a Trey raise and hope some picks offset a vet you mentioned at the end for any other move.
Yep.
I'd REALLY like to dump Volson. But as of this moment, he's a starter for me, with Ford as OT3/G4.
Volson has close to zero dead cap. Cutting him saves $3.6 mil. RG Will Hernandez is valued at just over $4 mil per by spotrac. He's 29. Coming off an ACL tear early last year. But with decent tongood grades the last couple years. If we sign him to a multi-year deal, the cap hit should be right around $4 mil.
At that point, Hernandez & Patrick are your starters. Volson at $3.8 mil is an expensive G3 with no positional versatility. Cutting Volson would pay for Hernandez, almost. Draft a guard to either start over Patrick (early) or compete with Kirkland/Lee/Stueber/Ford to be G3 (later).
I am not down on Volson, necessarily. I just think there is a path where cutting him can pay for an OG signing/upgrade, pay Trey, AND perhaps have enough for a bargain FA signing on D.
But unless it is a REAL bargain (Campbell, Simmons), then probably a draft pick has to allow us to cut Stone or Pratt to finance an impactful acquisition (Smith, Blackmon, Gillmore).
