Connor Barwin visiting

[BengalChris]

(03-13-2017, 05:06 PM)bambino5130 Wrote: I thought we were "out of cap room". Where did Hobson/Mike Brown find the newly discovered cap room they could have spent to resign Zietler and Whit? So there is no money to resign our own, but money to bring in a hometown FA like Barwin?
I am confused.

Don't believe a word that come out of Hobspin or Mike Brown's mouths. The Bengals have at least 20M in cap space left.

The rookies will take up between 4 and 5M, depending which picks we use and/or trade for.

The team wants an injury reserve so they can do in-season signings.

Then there's an amount to use to extend existing contracts before the player hits free agency. Hill, Burfict, Eifert, Dennard and some others are free agents at the end of 2017. My guess is that the they try to extend Burfict and Eifert and possibly Dennard if they can get him cheap enough.

Rest assured we'll be losing at least one top player at the end of next year. The team has historically not paid TEs very much and Eifert has glass parts and they'll hold his injuries against him in negotiations to get the price down. It's a gambler's roll on what will actually end up happening.