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Originally Posted by Superturtle
If you're not going to bullshit me, currently all I'd like to see them do is sign Linsley/draft Humphrey and trade up a bit for Vera-Tucker. That gives you the versatility you'd need in all scenarios, regardless of if Fisher and Schwartz can return to form or not, and it gives you both bookends of the future with Tucker and Niang since I really don't see a pathway to Fisher being with us after this season. If he has complications with the Achilles it's really hard to factor him in to future plans and if he returns and plays to his usual level he'll price himself out of an extension with us, especially with the looming cap boom. As for veteran back ups I'd say with the cap cuts looming across the NFL there'll be a glut of competent veteran linemen without injury concerns as severe as Peters and Osemele.
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tucker is a guy I’d have interest in, but not in with trading up and maybe not even at 31.
He’s not a given to be good at the NFL level at LT. He wasn’t good in the bowl game against good competition. It was pretty much the only time he faced top tier competition and he got ran.
He might drop significantly because of that game.
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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
I just really disagree.
He's a fair pass protector. He's a terrible run blocker. That doesn't equal really good to me.
Hudson was really good. Morse was good too, just slightly less. Reiter is worse than Morse at everything but being available.
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Agreed
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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
It's difficult for me to believe teams will pay $10+ million for a center in a year in which the salary cap has been reduced by 8%.
Most teams are going to have major difficulty keep their best and highest paid players, so if there's an ever been a year in which talented guys want a job, the market will be flooded with guys that can step in and start Week 1 without issue.
Also, I think the numbers thrown around for Reiter are speculative at best and way off at worst.
I don't think there will be much of a market out there for a 30 year center, who's never made a Pro Bowl, let alone the All Pro list, asking in excess of $10 million per but I guess stranger things have happened.
While I think it would be nice to keep him, I just hope the Chiefs don't make Reiter their second highest paid offensive lineman.
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Lots of teams out there with new QBs they just paid a mint for and the next step is to protect them. Not an abundance of top pass blocking centers available.
There are 12 centers making 9m and up in the league and Reiter is probably the second best option available.