[duncan_idaho]

Valdes-Scantling will play out this year on his current cap hit, which is not enormous or a problem to me.

Unless he goes nuts, they'll likely cut him after this season. But you can't apples-to-apples compare him to Smith-Schuster. Valdes-Scantling's speed and level of threat as a deep threat is a lot more rare than Smith-Schuster's reliable hands, toughness, and ability to work the middle of the field.

There are lots of dudes who can do what Smith-Schuster does. There are not lots of dudes who can do what Valdes-Scantling does.

How they operate in the draft will be telling, as always. If they add a receiver with the deep speed to operate like Valdes-Scantling has, a 2024 cut is a lot more likely.