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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
The biggest issue for me is that I have never felt like Trey Smith was a guy worth an extension. I’ve talked about it elsewhere if you want to search it up. He was a great pick and amazing value in the 6th, but I don’t think he’s ever been as good as most seem to think. He also obviously plays a pretty unimportant position overall.
I think the chances of him being worth $21+m per year are so insanely low, I just can’t convince myself keeping him is a good deal. Even with the rising cap, those $30m cap hits in 2028 are going to hurt like hell.
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I'm with you mostly. I felt like he was a guy that was worth an extension but not a guy worth 21m+. When you have cap-rich teams hand out 17-18m contracts to lesser players though, it creates this.
It's like that feeling of hey, I can see giving an exceptional LB or an exceptional OG/C 16m AAV. Now that has to be 22m AAV in two off-seasons, and you're like WTF? That's just way too ****ing much money for those positions.
OG is literally the single easiest position on a team to get good players at.