Burkhead Making A Strong Impression in New England

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(06-12-2017, 12:50 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: True, but you left out the most obvious option considering it wasn't that big of a deal.

Disagree on the bolded partially, as that's subjective. We don't know how much the Bengals wanted to reserve for extensions, so an extra $3 mill for a RB could have been more than the Bengals were willing to take on. Therefore, the option wasn't included because that extra $3 million may have put them over their max limit willing to spend on FAs.
However, I definitely get where you are coming from in that $3 million isn't that much given the total and available cap. The Bengals had plenty of room to retain Burkhead and also sign Smith when looking at the available cap. We'll be able to have a better understanding of how much they truly ended up having left over though once some extensions are signed later this Summer.