Trade for Julio?

[TheBengalsMind]

(04-28-2021, 03:51 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: They can afford to sign their draft day players. Spotrac has them at $2.4m in cap space, and everyone they draft will kick a different guy off their Top 51 and . They cut a guy like Kendall Sheffield (40.3 PFF rating last year, 47.5 the year before, 0 INT and 6 Pdef in 29 games/20 starts) they save another $700k, or just have a guy do a restructuring and kick some cap hit down the road a year or two. The cap is expected to enormously rise in 2022.

The Bucs, Saints, and Bears all have less cap space than the Falcons, and the Packers, Bills, and Giants only have ~$1m more. They'll sign their draft picks too. Only the Bengals peddle the notion that you need $10m in cap space just to sign your draft picks.

Not to mention that trading Julio Jones only creates $5.3m in cap space for the Falcons in 2021. I have seen nowhere that says they are "actively shopping" Julio Jones, just plenty of things says they are willing to take calls (which everyone should be about everyone since it costs you nothing to listen)

Actually, trading Julio Jones saves them 15 million if done after June 1st.

Which is why they wouldn't trade him until well after the draft. As a pre June 1st trade would result in 23 million in dead money.

Exactly why a May 31st trade cost them and a June 1st trade saves 15 million makes little sense, but it's how the NFL operates.

I was also under the impression from the Falcon websites that they needed at least 10 million dollars freed up at minimum to be able to sign their picks they said it would cost them 13 million to sign all of them.

But that might have changed recently, I'm not sure.

Also it's highly speculated that the Ravens are interested in him, whether or not it actually happens is another thing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thefalconswire.usatoday.com/2021/03/24/falcons-nfl-draft-salary-cap-atlanta-2021-offseason/amp/