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Originally Posted by RunKC
We have all the leverage. Tell him he needs to take a significant cap drop or he’s cut. This can probably happen via some kind of conversion of salary to bonus for 2022.
Ideally I’d like to keep Frank and Melvin and add a young DE early in the draft
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We have most of the leverage, but not all of it.
1. Clark is playing amazing right now. He's currently the guy we traded for in 2019. The possibility of losing that in 2022 gives him leverage.
2. Aside from Clark, we do not (yet?) have Ingram re-signed, which means our 2022 DE depth chart is Danna and Kaindoh, and
that's it.
3. If we cut him, he can probably find a home in the mid- to upper-teens. It's not like we cut him and he's Clowney 2.0, homeless and undesired.
These things make Clark very valuable for us. So he does have some leverage.
Cutting him after the September he had would have been painless.
Cutting him at this point, should he play like this for the rest of the season, is going to hurt.
Maybe there's an extension with a low-2022 cap hit that's agreeable to both parties.