working salary cap set

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(03-08-2022, 03:47 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Cool, cut Waynes, add a Center like Daniels, Jensen, Allen, Bozeman or Karras and cut Hop.

Then work on an extension for Bates so we have some more dough to work with in adding an OT like Moses or Trent Brown.

Might be even to add a Guard like Tomlinson or Corbett as well if we do all of this.

This would be the effort we all needed to see that would open up the draft for that Defensive talent it has so much of.

I was playing around with Spotrac's Roster Manager and I made the following moves:

Cut Waynes (+$10.8 mill)
Cut Hopkins (+$6 mill)

Cut the following random depth players that likely have no chance in making the roster:
Noah Spence ($895k)
Lamont Gaillard ($895k)
Jake Browning ($825k)
Keandre Jones ($825k)
John Brannon ($705k)
Elijah Holyfield ($705k)
Scotty Washington ($705k)
Pooka Williams ($705k)

Added the following players:
BJ Hill ($8 mill)
CJ Uzomah ($8 mill)
Quinton Spain ($5 mill)
Eli Apple ($4 mill)
Tre Flowers ($2 mill)
Clark Harris ($1.25 mill)
James Daniels ($10 mill)
Brian Allen ($7 mill)
Morgan Moses ($9 mill)

That brought the roster to 47 players and $3.723 mill remaining in cap going into the draft.

What to take from this:
The Bengals might not quite be able to sign all their main internal FAs plus 2-3 good OL upgrades in FA, but they could come close if they are willing to cut Waynes.