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One final word on the Dhop/WR room-
Some of you guys are looking at these individual moves in a vacuum. That's not how it works. If you lay out the cap space for a Dhop at market value, it negatively impacts multiple other spots. It requires you to go cheaper elsewhere. We used to pay Hill; and so we had Dan Sorensen's and Ben Niemann's taking significant snaps. We were overpaying Clark for his production, so we had Austin Reiters and Wylies starting at OL. And that was mostly before paying Mahomes.
If you pay Mahomes, Jones, Thuney, Taylor, and Dhop, you've got like 40% your cap left to fill your other 48 spots. And it doesn't better in subsequent years, and you're going to have to let all of the good young players you've developed walk so you can pay aging stars.. So you're mortgaging '24 and '25 to try to win in '23-when it's entirely possible that it's not necessary, and you've got as good a shot as anyone at winning the SB in '23 as it stands.
This is partly why we didn't invest so heavily in the WR room prior to letting Hill walk; we had serious, gaping holes that needed addressing. So WR took a backseat and we rolled with Hill and Kelce, betting that would be enough. And it was...until it wasn't.
Every move affects everything else. Would Dhop be a nice piece to have? Of course. But at what cost?
It appears that Veach, Reid, and Mahomes think the young WR's are talented enough and ready to step up. Ideally, they're right-and they've been right much more often than they've been wrong. There are enough numbers they're throwing at the WR room that it's highly unlikely they strike out on ALL of them. The 'floor' is the '22 WR room. I think it's entirely reasonable to expect this group to outperform that one.
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