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You keep assuming we're not going to take a RB in this draft tho? This 1-year, $2.75m deal does not preclude the FO from drafting a back.

They gave Javonte Williams almost the exact same deal we gave Dowdle. Dowdle is undoubtedly better.

$2.75m base value per Joe Person

It's 1 year, $3m incentive laden deal for a pretty decent vet back. Not sure why you think it's so bad. Doesn't preclude getting a mid-round RB, but clearly they want some experience behind Chubba given Brooks injury, Miles being cut, and likely not retaining Blackshear.

Not yet, but given it's worth "up to $6.25m", I'm assuming the gtd $ is less...he probably got whatever we were offering Miles as a pay cut.

Per Mike Kaye

Per the interweb

Highest paid DB in history after one healthy season makes me nervous af. But I guess that's the cost of doing business and Horn leveraged his contract status coming off his best season.

3 mistakes on that last drive - Chisena not going down in bounds after coverting the 3rd down, Bryce with the bad miss to Chisena that would’ve salted the game, and Canales keeping 3 TOs in his pocket instead of leaving the offense on the field to see if you could draw the Cards offside before taking a TO to avoid the delay. He’s a young coach who’s had some poor game management decisions, luckily got the W today and hopefully will spend a good portion of the offseason focused on improving in that area.

It definitely did

Dude has bricks for hands

I would be thrilled with one of McMillan, Carter, or Graham. Think we will get a real difference maker as long as we are picking somewhere around 4-7 or so.

Obviously this is small sample size and I still think Stroud should've been the pick, but pretty remarkable how similarly the two have been performing since Bryce was inserted back as the starting QB. Here are their combined stats over the past 6 weeks (starting with Bryce's first start at Denver): Young: 102/169 (60.3%), 1,082 yards (6.4 YPA), 6 TDs, 3 INTs, 15 carries, 82 yards (5.5 YPC), 1 rush TD, 83.5 QB rating (taken 7 sacks) Stroud: 120/201 (59.7%), 1,454 yards (7.2 YPA), 5 TDs, 4 INTs, 21 carries, 105 yards (5.0 YPC), 81.2 QB rating (taken 21 sacks)

In a vacuum I like the deal and think he's definitely earn it. I have a hard time squaring the extension with using a 2nd round pick to take the first RB off the board just 7 months ago though. Maybe Canales and Morgan see the 1-2 punch of Hubbard and Brooks as their version of Detroit's Montgomery/Gibbs combo though. I think Hubbard has shown he's a back in the same caliber as Montgomery, now it's up to Brooks to see if he can the type of dynamic threat Gibbs is.

Completely wrong. He's averaging 5ypc, if you take out his longest run this season, he's averaging 4.8ypc. He consistently gets at least 3-5 yards. He averages 1.9 yards after contact which is the same as Jahmyr Gibbs and Bijan Robinson and better than Saquon Barkley, Breece Hall, Joe Mixon, and Jonathan Taylor to name a few (among RBs with at least 100 carries this season). He's only been tackled for a loss on 7 of his 133 carries (5.2%) He's not a big play back with only 20 runs of 10+ yards. He's as consistent as it gets.