2022 off-season free agency and draft

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by MeSayDayo

To get back on topic, I would be interested to know some of your opinions on who we should bring in this offseason. At the very least, I think this is the year that Ballard might actually open the check book for someone (pass rusher, wide receiver or TE)

Edge- Von Miller, Chandler Jones, Fowler Jr, Pierre-Paul, Akiem Hicks, Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison, Anthony Barr, Hasson Reddick, Clowney, Emmanuel Ogbah, William Gholston, Solomon Thomas, Derek Barnett, Ryan Kerrigan, Justin Houston, Jihad Ward, Melvin Ingram, KJ Wright

WR- ARob, Godwin, Devante Adams, Will Fuller, Crowder, Hilton, Smith-Schuster, Emmanuel Sanders, AJ Green, Keelan Cole, Sammy Watkins, Mike Williams

TE - Ertz, Jimmy Graham, Gronk, Uzomah, Ebron, Everett, Jared Cook, Tonyan, Firkser, OJ Howard, Hayden Hurst, Evan Engram, Mike Gesiki

CB - Gilmore, Joe Haden, Kyle Fuller, Chris Harris, Patrick Peterson, Bryce Callahan, Jason Verrett, Kevin King

Given, a number of these names will be resigned by their own club before they even hit the market. Considering our funds are rather limited, and with our wide array of needs, I think we spend up on edge and get 2nd or third tier guys elsewhere.

Von Miller would be my first choice, but I like Jones, Hicks, Reddick as options to bolster our D in some way. Miller is a pro and has proven to still have gas in his tank and he might just be a bit cheaper given his age.
Allen Robinson would be my first choice at WR since he would cost in the 12-15 million range as opposed to Adams asking for 25-30. I would have wanted Godwin here but he's coming off a nasty injury and may not be ready till mid season.

I think we all could agree to give Ertz a one year deal, pair him with Wentz, and see if they can get some magic there. I think we likely draft a TE as well and likely push Granson into the lineup more prominently, even though he didn't really earn it or show much.

I think any of the listed veteran CB's could help us tremendously, but I would rather grab a 2nd or 3rd tier guy here that is much younger to see if we can develop him ala Darius Butler or Kenny Moore.

I also think we need to save at last 5 million in cap space this year for a QB. Weather that be Winston, Trubisky, Mariotta...I don't care, but we better be bringing in a vet to take the reigns if (when) Wentz screws up. Hell, knowing Wentz he might just very well lose the job to that vet in training camp since we all know he hates competition.

In free agency, I think you back up the Brinks truck for Chandler Jones and Terron Armstead, then go draft WRs and TEs.

[Puck]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

In free agency, I think you back up the Brinks truck for Chandler Jones and Terron Armstead, then go draft WRs and TEs.

Dam. Its gonna be a wide 9 vet to teach the youngins what to do. TE and especially WR will be further down the want list than FS and CB LT will be even further down the list. Fisher will be the starter in 2022 with another season to get healthy

[apballin]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

In free agency, I think you back up the Brinks truck for Chandler Jones and Terron Armstead, then go draft WRs and TEs.

No fuckin way Jones had 1 great game week 1 and didn’t do shit after that fuck that dude he’s so overrated

5 sacks week 1- ends season with 10 sacks

Last 6 weeks of the season he had 1 sack

Fuck that dude

[ukcolt]

We have very little money spare, we are not going to be big players in free agency guys. We have so many of our own free agents that we might need to resign. Now some of the lower level guys are just going to replace the existing lowest contract value so won't take up any space off the available cap space. But i can see some of the lower guys who we might want to keep such as Pryor, Reed, Turay, Lewis, Odum earning significantly more than they are currently earning. Lets just say for arguments sake they average $4m each, thats $20m. Are we going to resign Fisher, he is likely to get similar to last year @ $8-9m, Alie-Cox might expect $5m. Stallworth, Dulin, Adams, Franklin, are each likely to get paid $2m each. So we have already taken $42m just to resign some of our own. What does that leave us with $15m, for a new QB, WR, CB, DE etc. We are not about to be splashing the cash, as we simply don't have that much. If Doyle retires that would give some more cap space, but another position of need to fill.

Name - 2021 salary
Fisher - 8.3m
Hilton - 8.0m
Glowinski - 5.4m
Rhodes - 4.8m
Alie-Cox - 3.4m
Pascal - 3.4m
Muhammad - 2.9m
Tevi - 2.5m
Rochell - 2.5m
Odum - 2.1m
Carrie - 2.1m
Mack - 2.0m
Turay - 1.3m
Davenport - 1.1m
Reed - 1.1m
Lewis - 1.1m
Sendejo - 1.1m
Addae - 1m
Badgley - 0.9m
Woods - 0.9m
Stallworth - 0.9m - Restricted
Dulin - 0.85m - Restricted
Pryor - 0.7m
Adams - 0.6m
Franklin - 0.6m

[Ironshaft]

We don't have enough free cap space to sign more than 1 or 2 "name" FAs this off season. Most of our free cap will be used in $2 - $5m chunks to re-sign our own (Odum, Pryor, Reed, etc).

Of those one or two "name" signings, my priority would be: LT, WR, CB, TE.

However, none of it will really matter until we get a winner at QB which Wentz is not, IMO.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by ukcolt

We have very little money spare, we are not going to be big players in free agency guys. We have so many of our own free agents that we might need to resign. Now some of the lower level guys are just going to replace the existing lowest contract value so won't take up any space off the available cap space. But i can see some of the lower guys who we might want to keep such as Pryor, Reed, Turay, Lewis, Odum earning significantly more than they are currently earning. Lets just say for arguments sake they average $4m each, thats $20m. Are we going to resign Fisher, he is likely to get similar to last year @ $8-9m, Alie-Cox might expect $5m. Stallworth, Dulin, Adams, Franklin, are each likely to get paid $2m each. So we have already taken $42m just to resign some of our own. What does that leave us with $15m, for a new QB, WR, CB, DE etc. We are not about to be splashing the cash, as we simply don't have that much. If Doyle retires that would give some more cap space, but another position of need to fill.

Name - 2021 salary
Fisher - 8.3m
Hilton - 8.0m
Glowinski - 5.4m
Rhodes - 4.8m
Alie-Cox - 3.4m
Pascal - 3.4m
Muhammad - 2.9m
Tevi - 2.5m
Rochell - 2.5m
Odum - 2.1m
Carrie - 2.1m
Mack - 2.0m
Turay - 1.3m
Davenport - 1.1m
Reed - 1.1m
Lewis - 1.1m
Sendejo - 1.1m
Addae - 1m
Badgley - 0.9m
Woods - 0.9m
Stallworth - 0.9m - Restricted
Dulin - 0.85m - Restricted
Pryor - 0.7m
Adams - 0.6m
Franklin - 0.6m

This is mostly my point of this thread. I keep seeing "sign this guy" comments, and the reality is we just won't have that luxury. we need to fill spots of expiring contracts.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

This is mostly my point of this thread. I keep seeing "sign this guy" comments, and the reality is we just won't have that luxury. we need to fill spots of expiring contracts.

Exactly. The Colts can go moving money and playing cap games to chase overpriced talent and it accelerates the cap issues.

[CletusPyle]

Colts were like 10-20 plays away from having home field throughout the playoffs...players need to work and improve in the off season, a good draft will put this team in the hunt next season! Find an experienced, knowledgeable former QB, who is an expert on identifying defenses and going through progressions, pay him a boatload to work with Carson in the off season and offer him bonuses contingent on Wentz's improvement and success next season! If we don't have the cap to get a proven franchise QB, we can pay top dollar to try to develop what we do have in Wentz!

I don't think Wentz is just doing this for the money...I believe he is a competitor and wants to win a championship, looks like he is going to get one more year, he'd better make the most of it!