FA Signing Game

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(02-09-2024, 11:27 AM)grampahol Wrote: It might make sense to sign Tee to a long term deal if they plan to trade him if for no other reason than it ups his trade value as opposed to tag and trade.

We would then take the huge dead cap hit for any signing bonus he signed for as we would have had to pay him it before we traded him.

As far as signing bonuses for WRs go, two years ago Brown got $23m, Diggs got $21m, and Metcalf got $30m, Deebo got $24m, and McLaurin got $28m... so we'd have at least that much in dead cap space as soon as we traded him. 

That'd be okay if you're a 4-13 type team that is years away from competing, but if you actually expect to compete, you can't be selling ~$25m of your 2024 cap space to buy a better draft pick.