Rumor has it we're working on a deal to trade Burfict.

[BengalChris]

(03-14-2018, 05:01 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Is this to clear space for Atkins/Dunlap?

Do we really need to trade Burfict to afford those guys?

I don't see why we'd need to do that to make space for Atkins and Dunlap.

Atkin's current contract pays him $9.5M this year. Dunlap is currently $7.3M. There is no deadcap money for either one of them.

The team has about $13M in cap space after taking off the rookie pool, so there's room to extend these guys.

If they both Atkins and Dunlap got $2M more per year there would still $9M left, which can be used for injuries, rollover, extending Dennard (which I believe would be relatively inexpensive this year compared with him hitting the open market next year).

We could save $5M+ by cutting MJ to make more room.