4 hours ago
(4 hours ago)THE PISTONS Wrote: I think cap space needs taken into account too.
A lot of the discussion in this thread, doesn't factor in the cap. Like 'Yeah I'd pay him $35 million a year'. Is he worth that? Probably.
A team like the Browns can give Garrett a huge deal, because they don't have many good players that are highly paid.
The Steelers? They don't have a QB that's high paid.
The Bengals have a QB, and 2 WR's paid at the top of their position.
Pretty obvious they're trying to draft his replacement.
We have around $17.6 mil in actual cap space (top 53, picks paid, PS cost).
Taking Trey from $16 mil to $32 would eat almost all of it. No $$ for injury replacements or rollover for next year. Or a G or safety FA.
Now, we could create around $9.5 mil more by waiving Pratt ($5.85) + Volson ($3.66). But that would only push us to $27 mil.
That is the cap situation.
