Tyler Boyd

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(02-15-2022, 10:11 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Bengals don't have $72 million in cap space.  They are projected to have $58 million and they could gain another 10 by cutting Waynes. 

And the big problem is that we only have 37 players under contract for 2022 and need to replace several key players including...

Reiff, starter
Ogunjobi, starter
Uzomah, starter
Bates, starter
Spain, starter
Apple, starter

B.J. Hill, 50% of snaps
Tupou, 40% of snaps

So that is 8 key players plus another 6 spots just to fill our roster.

There is not near as much to spend as you seem to believe.

If you're upgrading at C, then you don't need Trey Hopkins anymore. That's the other $6m along with Waynes' $10.8m in the $72.6m number.

Reiff, Hills, and Bates replaced by... Daniel Faalele, Perrion Winfrey, and Bryan Cook, respectively in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rounds of the draft. About $5.5m/yr for all 3.

Ogunjobi sign for 3yr/$21m.

Replace Uzomah with Gronk to help solve the Red Zone offense. 93 RZ catches for 65 TDs, plus 15 TDs in 22 career playoff games. 1yr/$8m is what he signed for last time.

Spain was already addressed by signing 2 Guards.

Replace Apple with Charvarius Ward at $10m/yr.


Tupou had 3 solo tackles all year, 12 total tackles. 1 QB hit, 0 TFL, 0 sacks, 0 Pdef, 0 FF. He can be replaced by a league minimum guy.


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Even at the back-of-the-napkin numbers we tend to use here where all contracts have their cap hits perfectly spread out rather than increasing by year like almost all contracts ever, that still leaves you somewhere around $6m to fill out the very bottom of the roster with some rookie min deals. In reality it would be a decent amount more.

If $72.6m isn't much to spend in FA, then no team is signing FAs. Only 5 teams have at least $40m in cap space. Only 17 have at least $10m, only 20 have at least $5m, and 9 teams are actually negative right now. The Bengals have plenty of cap space to do plenty of upgrading.