ESPN's Jeremy Fowler: WR Diontae Johnson Possible Trade Candidate At Deadline

[Ricky Prickles]

Yep, he is 29. He still has some years left in him. If he does not want top of the league money and wants something reasonable I see no reason to not try to sign him for a few years here. We should at least explore with his agent right now what he is thinking and what it would take. I simply would not trade him and would use the season to evaluate and form an offer while remaining in contact with he and his agent to see what we can work out. To me it's worth the risk to watch, evaluate and see what happens. If he walks then we lose a later round pick and everyone knows we have thrown those away like crazy already as well as high round picks. Nobody is giving us a high round pick for him so to me it's worth the risk of not acquiring some later round pick for him to see what we can get done with him as well as watch him the rest of the season.

[kungfoodude]

13 hours ago, ChuckWag78 said:

20M ish isn't top 10 money though. There are 20+ WR that make over 20M this year. 

Fair but $25 mil would be tied for 11th. 

[kungfoodude]

13 hours ago, ForJimmy said:

Let him play for a contender and get your 6th. Seems like the right move. Let’s our young guys continue to develop. 

A 6th isn't even worth discussing, IMO. Anything sub 3rd is really just a waste of time. 

[Jackie Lee]

 

[onmyown]

Saying this team has years before competing is being nice…I don’t think it’ll happen ever with Tepper here but with that said I don’t see a reason to keep him and would rather the new staff have more picks.

Edited 3 hours ago by onmyown

[Navy_football]

If they trade Johnson, then they should have just left Bryce in. Team morale would tank immediately. The team knows he's the guy just like everyone else. Johnson is a huge part of XL and Mingo's development. If he doesn't want to re-sign next season, then tag him and trade him then. He'll be worth a lot more after 1000 yards and 10 TDs.

[strato]

3 minutes ago, Navy_football said:

If they trade Johnson, then they should have just left Bryce in. Team morale would tank immediately. The team knows he's the guy just like everyone else. Johnson is a huge part of XL and Mingo's development. If he doesn't want to re-sign next season, then tag him and trade him then. He'll be worth a lot more after 1000 yards and 10 TDs.

Couple good points in there. If we can't sign him, pump his numbers all the way make him real attractive.

Our guys are two games behind everybody else numbers wise. Dalton has 5 TD passes, double them with two more games his one behind the league leaders.

[KillerKat]

1 hour ago, onmyown said:

Saying this team has years before competing is being nice…I don’t think it’ll happen ever with Tepper here but with that said I don’t see a reason to keep him and would rather the new staff have more picks.

why have more picks that Morgan would most likely end up fuging up anyway?

[strato]

1 hour ago, onmyown said:

Saying this team has years before competing is being nice…I don’t think it’ll happen ever with Tepper here but with that said I don’t see a reason to keep him and would rather the new staff have more picks.

Not to rude about it but I just think you are wrong. Canales was the first step towards digging out of this poo. 

We could be turned around and headed up the ladder as soon as next year. 

They did okay in their 1st FA and trading, and that focused on offense. Morgan should know who can play defense. We're going to have to weather whatever transition there is from Evero at some point probably. That's where we could hit a snag, if there is new scheme.

Edited 1 hour ago by strato

[PappyMay]

1 hour ago, Navy_football said:

If they trade Johnson, then they should have just left Bryce in. Team morale would tank immediately. The team knows he's the guy just like everyone else. Johnson is a huge part of XL and Mingo's development. If he doesn't want to re-sign next season, then tag him and trade him then. He'll be worth a lot more after 1000 yards and 10 TDs.

Tag next year for WR is 25 million. While I would love to work out a deal with him for 2-3 years at 20yr a tag is not the worst idea.  You’d get to keep him for the season. If if you moved on from him in the off-season he’d prob still could get traded for a mid round pick. And if you stick with him and play the tag out gives XL and Mingo another year to keep devolving.  I hadn’t thought to tag him but not the worst idea. 

[frankw]

Safe to say maybe let's not throw any big money contracts out anytime soon.

Stack assets. Draft studs.