Bengals 2021 draft will be shaped by our Free Agency at CB, DE, and WR

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(11-06-2020, 09:05 AM)Jpoore Wrote: Wj3 is gonna get 11-14 million per year. No way he only gets 6.5 he’s having a career year. We have about 42 million in cap space. Gonna have to get creative. Assume 15 million to bates. Another 12 to Wj3. There’s 27. Then u got Lawson, and a few others.

If Bates is looking to be the highest paid S in the league, he will play out his rookie deal and test the market in '22 when the cap has come back up some.  The big advantage to teams doing extensions before contracts run out is that the player takes less money in exchange for the security of the guaranteed money and long term deal being in place.  If the player won't take a discount on the extension, there's not much point in the team doing it.  You let them play out their deal and play the FT game at that point.