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Originally Posted by kccrow
Here's the way I see the comp situation starting to shape up....
Potential Qualifying Free Agents Lost:
LT Branden Albert
RG Jon Asamoah
RG/RT Geoff Schwartz
SS/KR Quintin Demps
SWR Dexter McCluster
DT Tysyn Jackson
ILB Akeem Jordan
Potential Qualifying Free Agents Gained:
DT Vance Walker
ILB Joe Mays
OG/OT Jeff Linkebach
There is much that has to happen yet for the equation, including playing time and post season honors. I'd have to look up salaries to see what the tiers are, but at this point it looks as though KC could end up qualifying for a couple comps. So far it appears Albert, Asamoah, and McCluster could be the tickets to potential picks.
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I'd have to look up the tiers too, but we've had a decent track record of tracking where these things usually land. We all pretty much knew in 2013, for instance, that we were going to land a 3rd for Brandon Carr and a 6th/7th for Barry Richardson (I called a 7th, and was pleasantly surprised when it became a 6th).
Let's break this down.
BY THEMSELVES, with no inclusion of free agents we've signed (and again, this is all an educated guess):
Albert should be a 3rd ($~50m)
Jackson should be a 4th (~$25m)
Asamoah should be a 4th (~$22m)
Schwartz should be a 5th (~$16m)
McCluster should be a 5th (~$12m)
Again, this is my best guess. And I have no idea how much Demps and Jordan have signed for, and how much Kendrick Lewis may sign for soon.
Now, we've only signed two free agents this offseason to anything resembling compensatory-worthy money:
Walker (~$13m)
Mays (~$6m)
Now, I don't know which picks these guys will eat into, but subtracting Walker from Jackson gives you a net loss of ~$12m, which should amount to a 5th. I don't know who Mays would eat into, but it pretty much doesn't matter, because at that point we've still got our 4 picks: a 3rd, a 4th, and two 5ths.
The question is, does the Walker/Mays combination eradicate any of these picks for us? Maybe it eradicates one of the 5ths, and downgrades the other 5th.
I'm just throwing shit at a wall at this point, so I'm going to see what Google turns up.