Sneed is a guy we can pay, and should, in my opinion. The fact that we have 3 good CB's coming off their rookie seasons means we can absolutely allocate 2nd contract money to Sneed. He's so much more than 'just a corner'.

I agree with Chris here.

You've got 3 cheap options, so I can pay one and not worry about it.

If it’s a 3 yr deal or so then it would be good timing to move that money to McDuffie. Assuming he’s the guy who he looks to be at that time

Just being realistic .. Sneed doesn’t really have the name to bring a no brainer deal. I’d assume you get get a top 60 pick. And I’m not even considering it unless it’s top 40. I’d rather have him for another year and collect a comp pick

And it’s no guarantee that all three CBs are just going to keep improving. There are plenty of guys who looked good their rookie year and then did dick afterwards.

Ok, Wow that is a positive attitude. I will choose - :hmmm: You are WRONG! Get real man. This is just a ridiculous point of view.

If it were me, I'm extending Sneed ASAP. he's such a great chess piece.

You sign this guy. It's likely going to cost us keeping Thornhill, but of the two of them, I'm throwing the dollars at Sneed. Sucks, because I'm a Thornhill guy, but Sneed is too good and important to this unit.

Or….how about this? The genius that posted the shit below doesn’t call anyones takes ridiculous.

It's a difficult thing to follow through with.

Let's say you do that on both sides of the ball and these are the approximate values of "high paid"...
QB at 45m
TE at 15m
LT at 25m.
DT at 30m
CB at 18m
LB at 18m.

That's 151m of 224m in cap space, leaving 73m to field a team with a remaining 47 spots which is 1.55m per guy. That's not much room for even low-end or mid-tier guys and you definitely don't want that. You want to have a pretty balanced roster that at least has 5-6 mid-tier talents on each side of the ball.

So of that group above, you're definitely keeping the QB but what are you choosing not to pay? In you're case you don't have an elite TE and you don't have a top-tier LT because you probably have to free up 50m to have a team of about 25 min/rookie tier, 10-12 low-tier (2-4m) and 10 mid-tier (5-10m), and a few elites. Each elite pushes a couple of mid-tier guys down into the min range.

good point, Crow.

I think when you have a truly special player, entering his prime, you ought to try to get that done. And when I say 'special' I mean a player that transcends merely playing his position well. I mean a guy that does extra things that other guys can't do.

I think Sneed is a guy that fits that description. Jones, certainly. Anyone else on that defense right now? Not really. There are some very good players, but they're more just playing their position well.

If Bolton had Gay's speed, he'd be that guy. As it is, he's just a really good player.

For example.

FYI there’s a lot of love for the corner class this year. One coach said as many as 10 could be drafted int he first 2 rds and there was a lot of depth.

I think no matter what we should draft another one

Maybe.

But that also pushes down other players at positions we could use

Such a great point.
Welcome to Brett’s world needing to look 3-5 years ahead while estimating the future cap limits and balancing the cap dollars by position group.
Drafting well is obviously key, but not every draft year is like last year.

Well, the Bengals were also playing with jack and shit at OL and it was the first game against them recently we were actually able to generate significant and consistent pressure on Burrow.

Possibility of trading L’Jarius Sneed
 

I'm going to murder you if this happens.

Why is everyone so infatuated with trading our best players for picks all of a sudden? The Chiefs already have a surplus of picks. We don't need 20 more good players to field a competitive team; we need 2 or 3 more great players to complete a dominant roster.

Sneed excels at his position and is one of the few players we should pay market rate to retain. Sneed goes nowhere if I were GM.