Trae Waynes

[muskiesfan]

I said this in another thread, but I think we should keep Waynes unless we can bring back Apple and 1 of Hargreaves/Flowers. I understand that we can draft a corner, but Apple, Hargreaves, Flowers, and Wilson are all free agents after this season. Throw in Jessie Bates and Ricardo Allen and we need depth at DB. If we lose all of them and Waynes, that's a lot to bring in on the DB side. A lot of this rides on Apple. Is he willing to come back or does he want to test free agency? If he's willing to come back I hope we re-sign him before free agency. Then we can release Waynes and be more aggressive in free agency.

I understand Waynes hasn't contributed much and has been constantly injured, but if we don't bring back any of the other DBs I just don't see a reason to cut him and make that position group even thinner. If they can re-sign Apple and Hargreaves then we can cut Waynes and still save money. I don't think Apple and Hargreaves would eat up the entire $11m we would save cutting Waynes. In that case, we could cut Waynes, keep Apple and Hargreaves and still run into free agency with around $60m to play with. If not, we keep Waynes and still have $58m or so to play with.

I'm over Waynes as much as anyone else. With the amount of free agent DBs we have, I don't think it would be smart to cut him without at least having a couple re-signed moving forward.