Yesterday, 05:16 PM
(Yesterday, 05:05 PM)Sled21 Wrote: If Stewart pans out I doubt they'd franchise tag a Defensive End soon to be 32 yoa.
There's no way that Stewart could produce in 2025 a number would make any team comfortable having him as their only DE heading into 2026 instead of tagging Hendrickson for $25m-ish.
I mean if Stewart absolutely balls out and gets an unrealistic 10 sacks (last year the rookie sack leader was at 8.5 and second place was at 6.0... the only rookie to have at least 10 sacks in the last 5 years was Micah Parsons in 2021), that would still put him 7.5 shy of Hendrickson's last two years totals and we already were talking about how badly we needed a decent second DE to go with Hendrickson.
So you'd swap out an All-Pro DE for a lesser DE, and then still have the same need at DE #2 in 2026 that we had in 2024.
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