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 29 minutes 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.