List of our 2018 Free Agents is a lot more manageable

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(01-19-2017, 11:32 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I was reading this article:
http://www.cincyjungle.com/2017/1/18/14313840/bengals-cap-space-carryover-for-2017-nfl-season-announced

And they mentioned who our 2018 free agents are, as follows:

Bengals 2018 free agents
PLAYER POS. AGE 2017 AAV STATUS
James Wright WR 25 $567,456 UFA
A.J. McCarron QB 26 $600,413 RFA
Rey Maualuga ILB 29 $5,000,000 UFA
Kevin Huber P 31 $2,800,000 UFA
Jeremy Hill RB 24 $938,401 UFA
Clark Harris LS 32 $990,000 UFA
Marquis Flowers OLB 24 $574,670 UFA
Tyler Eifert TE 26 $2,064,000 UFA
Will Clarke DE 25 $705,095 UFA
Vontaze Burfict OLB 26 $4,751,000 UFA
Russell Bodine C 24 $669,114 UFA



Considering this Free Agency period is rough, with Zeitler, Whit and Dre hitting free agency at the same year, it's nice to know that next year, really, the only two key players hitting Free Agency are Burfict and Eifert. Both of whom have their own red flags that will lower their price tag.

Hill is reaching free agency as well but, honestly, I don't even know if we'll even want him back, let alone if he'd be difficult to re-sign.

I think it's possible that we can sign all 3 big free agents, considering we won't have a huge problem next off season haha.

And, in addition, if we don't cut them this off season, we may be lucky enough to lose Maualuga and Bodine next off season too!

I'm looking forward to a much easier off season next year, especially after we win a playoff game or 2 .

-Burfict is great so long as he keeps himself in shape. (Or we wait 2-3 games for him to play himself into shape.)

-Harris is a champ. Only time he really was ever mentioned was when he toughed it out like a boss to finish the season. The less you hear a LS's name, the better.

-Eifert would be great if he could stay healthy, but that doesn't look to be the case.

-Huber is good, but not so good to be irreplaceable.


So yeah, that's not a whole lot of money right there. Burfict will get a bit, Eifert will too if he plays the whole season (unlikely). Harris is a LS, so like.. 3yr/$3m? Huber is a punter, so like 3yr/$7.5m?

Clarke might play himself into a decent backup role, but that's about it for the rest of them.