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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory
The point of me bringing up re-signing our guys is not to say we shouldn't spend on free agents or that we will re-sign all of our guys. Rookie contracts go along with our QB situation to shows what a knife's edge this cap situation is...
Our league-leading salary cap room doesn't exist if WAS doesn't save us a shitload of money on Wentz. That alone drops us from "salary cap champs" to like bottom-10. Point being that our future (worth a shit) QB will eat up most of this cap that people are itching to spend. Now pay Nelson, Taylor, Kwity (pass-rusher money), etc. and it's not the same picture.
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Even if we hadn't been able to trade Wentz we would have been at ~$42M below the cap, which would have been more space than a lot of teams that are being pretty active in FA.
I'm curious too who you think we end up with at QB that will eat up all of our cap space. Since you're thinking they'll have a big cap hit I'm guessing you think it'll be Ryan, Jimmy G, or Mayfield? I would imagine Winston and Mariotta will probably get similar to what Trubisky did. Maybe Winston gets a little more, but not near enough to eat up all of our cap space.
Any QB we'd draft this year or next will be a FA at the earliest in '26, so any FAs picked up this year will probably be off the books before we'd have to pay said QB.