Bengals Targets By Position

[Okeana]

(04-07-2024, 01:30 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Are you using top 5 base salary or top 5 cap hit for these positional averages? Because If you're using base salary, you're selling the OT position short. For example, when I calculate the average cap hit of the top 5 tackles, as represented on the Spotrac site, I get ~$27M. So, subracting the value you gave ($3M) that would be a savings of ~$24M, and not the $16M as you listed. Also when applying top 5 cap hit average to DT, I come up with $23.7M top 5 avg, then subtracting the $3M rookie value leaving a savings of $20.7M, rather than the $25M that you listed.

I'm not pointing this out simply to be critical, but when examining potential positional contract value savings it would be nice to have everyone using the same data set.

The highest-paid right tackle in the NFL is Taylor at 20 million AVG per year.  I'm not calculating positional switch, positional increases year to year.  as far as DT goes, I'm looking at the interior defense group as a whole, but the top two guys were at 32 million a year, 4 and 5 are essentially 25 million, so I put the league average for a top 5 DT to be 28 Million. I could sit down and get exact predictive contract savings, but I just wanted to show that position group interest is, what rounds are those guys in, and what groups are not being focused.  For me its clear that Wide Receiver is a round 2/3 focus, DT has a wide variation in rounds 1-7 so that tells me that its a group of interest but not a priority early, and lastly the majority of first round guys they are interested in are Offensive Tackles.  

If I had to predict, just on this data, what their plan is.  1st OT, 2nd Receiver, 3rd DT/WR/RB/OT .  Tight ends/DT/Edge are all groups of interest at any point in the draft. 
Maybe an interior offensive line guy if they fall, but very little interest.  CB has almost zero interest, Linebacker has no interest, and Safety has no interest.  The Two players they have shown the most interest in are Amarius Mims and Erick All both with a combine, pro day, and top 30 visits.