We'll find out soon

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(02-21-2022, 06:43 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Spot on. This is why I was talking about Mixon's big contract recently.

The championship teams we've seen through the years typically don't spend on a "bell cow". That's pre-2010s thinking. RBs are usually taken in the draft and dropped after their rookie deals. You often see tandems instead of one guy getting 350 touches.

You need an elite QB and those eat up roughly 20% of the cap. So you have to preserve somewhere, while also protecting that QB and giving him enough weapons to succeed.

RB is the best position to save $ on. They don't age well and get injured more than any position probably. You can also cycle through secondary receiving options.

Money should go (1) QB, (2) O-line, (3) Elite WR1 or a combo of lesser but still good weapons. RB is an afterthought.

Agree on all fronts, but we have 3 (maybe 4?) years before burrows (and chase) contract hits in. This team will look a lot different. We won’t ever have the luxury of a Joe mixon, outside of a rookie deal, for the duration of joe burrows career. Creative cap manipulation can do a lot. Both boyd and mixon are gone in 3 years.