02-19-2023, 10:47 PM
(02-19-2023, 12:22 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: If you're going to pay him for an IS, i'd rather keep him on the roster and have him there in case there's another injury late in the year. If he ends up not playing, you can always just take the 1.6M dead cap hit the next year.
I'm not a real big fan of potentially having his and Jonah's contracts sitting on the bench but i am a big fan of having them available if someone gets hurts before the playoffs. I don't ever wanna see Hakeem Adeniji or anyone like him taking important snaps in playoff games/super bowls.
Exactly!! It makes the most sense to keep him and have him reserved as a backup. We've been burnt badly the past two years with our OL come playoff time, and we're lucky Joe hasn't been injured again and turned into another David Klingler. I've always felt terrible for what we did to that kid's career.
Bottom line: We need to take a ROT as our first pick. OSU's ROT-Dwand Jones is looking to go early second like the late 30s or early 40th pick, he'll be there for us at 28. I've heard others say, "We could gamble our first pick and get a mid-30s second round and a few others in a trade," but I'd rather take him when we know we can get him. I also like Flordia's OT- Richard Gouraige in the 6th or 7th as he had the best grade of any OT in the Reeses' Sr. Bowl at 64, and had a pass block grade of 79 for the 2022 season--- per pff.com.
