Would you give Jones 3/100m or trade him?

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Originally Posted by Chris Meck

Ok, so we will have $50m in cap space, roughly. We have 33 players under contract, or 20 spots we need to fill.

We have no LT. No RT. Our top returning WR is MVS, to go with Toney and Moore. Our DE room is: Karlaftis, Danna, Herring, and Kaindoh. Our OT's are Niang, Wanegho, and Kinnard.

This is not a highly regarded LT class in terms of NFL ready, day one starters. AT ALL. Not by anyone's standards. There's some guys with potential. You really want to risk Mahomes' health with that?

And for the record, this is the plan I lean towards:
Extend Jones, reducing the '23 cap hit (although it will balloon in later years), let Brown walk (or ideally tag and trade), sign Ngakoue to fill RDE pass rusher spot, and bring in Clelin Ferrell on a minimum deal to try as a reclamation project. I let Juju and Hardman go, maybe bring back Watson on a minimal deal.
I send a #2 to GB for Yosh Nijman, who is a RFA and GB probably can't match a middle LT contract. Maybe we're lucky and get a #2 or #3 in a tag and trade for Brown.

Then I'm drafting the best OT on the board in the first and crossing my fingers that they can be better than Wylie day one or that Niang is not a pipedream, and that Toney, Moore, MVS, and Watson are good enough and available enough to get it done.

I do this knowing it means that we won't be giving a second contract to Sneed or Gay.

And I do this knowing that we will once again have 8 or 9 draft picks playing a ton of snaps in year one. Better hope we have another great draft.

Chris Jones already counts for 27M of that so all you really need to do is add a few million onto that. Re-sign juju for 18 or so. As to the draft some of the experts here can fill in on this but there's alot of depth available. We don't need Trent Williams or Willie Roaf. We need a dude who can handle himself while not asking to be paid 30M or whatever OBJ wants.

Thuney is a great guard and our inside blocking in general is well above average. A rookie who's had experience with DEs who can rush well works. I'd look at Steen or Johnson personally. Both dudes should be available around 16 or so.

We use our OBJ haul to move up along with another 2nd and/or 3rd. Grab 1 of them and keep drafting. Still should leave us another 10M or so to add a few more guys to fill in holes