03-16-2020, 10:05 AM
(03-16-2020, 09:52 AM)ochocincos Wrote: The Bengals currently have $53.3 mill in cap space.
$18 mill would be eaten up by AJ Green franchise tag.
However, that basically would get offset by getting Dalton's salary off the books ($17.7 mill).
Remove ~$11 mill estimated for draft pool, and you're down to $42 mill.
That $42 mill obviously will get partially eaten up by internal guys, but it's probably safe to say they'll be able to put $15-25 mill toward outside FAs this year.
Getting rid of DK would add $8 mill to the cap this year and nearly $10 mill to the cap next year. Removing him would help if they had a guy in mind for FA (or Dennard).
With all of that said, I'd like them to get a couple above average starters via outside FA (Littleton and Thuney/Glasgow), but with how many holes they have, I'm expecting 4-5 mid-tier guys instead.
The numbers I have seen are we will spend around $25 Million. The question is does that take into account Kirkpatrick getting cut if the right CB option is there. Littleton is heating up way outside our comfort zone from what I have read with Raider and Packers about to get into a massive bidding war. Kwitkowski from Chicago makes more sense as a mid tier LB option who can cover. I think along with that we end up with some sort of CB upgrade and potentially an O line move if the right one is there.