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No.
Absolutely not. 100% **** no.
He has 1 year left on his deal (the 5th year option) so you're looking at ANOTHER trade draft capital and give a guy big money sort of deal.
Oh, and Ridley's 27. So you're going to have the same dilemma with him you have with Hill. You're looking at extensions for guys that will start entering their age 29 season. Now with Hill you have a HoF talent who's uniquely suited for Mahomes.
With Ridley you have a guy with 1 premier season on his resume, two fairly middling ones and then one where he imploded. And he doesn't have the preternatural physical skills that Hill has. He looks to age a HELL of a lot more like Jeremy Maclin than Steve Smith.
If the Falcons cut him outright I wouldn't sign him for the contract he wants. If we could give up a 4th to get him to play on the 5th year option then let him walk, I'd do that, but he almost certainly won't.
Anything more than that and we're just plowing too capital into relatively short-term solutions to act as a crutch for our half billion dollar quarterback. Fellas - if he's worth $500 million, he'd better by god be able to function without $60 million in skill position players surrounding him.
If he's worth that kind of money he's a force multiplier. And he IS worth that kind of money. So put the money/cap into continuing to strengthen the defense while making it younger/faster and let Mahomes make a little magic with only 2 HoF pass-catchers, a damn good OL and a rocket of a right arm.
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