They don't have to; the players agent will do this. I think we are heading into the draft planning on taking a LT at 19 though. Good article on our cap situation: SI Article.
This will be interesting. If they go splash money (do we have the cap space?) on him in FA they will be covering for Bryce. If they do nothing in FA at LT, we know someone sitting above of us in the draft like Cleveland will probably pull the trigger and make it more likely that a good LT drops to 19.
Does this mean they thought he would only get a 1 year deal for $15M??? Or that is what they thought he was worth? Either way, they are really off considering the Panthers and Eagles were both willing to offer him a lot of money on a multi year deal.
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Jets would have owed him 3.5M, and we signed him for 1.9M. Jets didn't want to pay that when he had a 12.1% drop rate and only catching 3 of 8 contested targets. XL had an even higher drop rate his rookie season but he improved on that last year.
Well, we know that the Dolphins (exercised his fifth year option), Eagles (traded 3rd round pick for a guy w/ injury history of acl and achilles), and Panthers all thought he was worth the risk. Fingers crossed.
WTF? We are just going to ignore LT or does OP think we have room to snag one in free agency? I think we end up ranking Proctor, Lomu, and Freeling and take the highest one available at 19. I think Fano is purely a RT because of his arm length. I would take Freeling right now at 19 as i have mentioned before.
Chiefs trade Trent McDuffie to Rams for #29 and fifth and sixth rounds picks and a 2027 third round pick. Would you have traded JC for that haul? I say yes. We would have two firsts and could put together a nice package to trade down into the second or third rounds. ESPN.