Garett Bolles may be on trading block?

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Salary dumping veteran contracts rarely yields huge returns in terms of draft capital. The most recent example of this is Amari Cooper from Dallas only netting a 5th round pick despite being a legitimate #1 receiver in the NFL.

Stephon Gilmore is another example, traded in 2021 for a 6th round pick after signing a 5 year 65M contract. Joe Schobert was traded for a 6th rounder as well, after he signed that mammoth 5 year 53M dollar contract (paying an off ball linebacker 10M AAV is rough unless they're a true star, which Schobert was not). Ereck Flowers reeled in a 7th round swap after signing a 3 yr 30M contract. Jurrell Casey was traded in 2020 for a 7th round pick after signing a 4 year 60.4M contract. Everson Griffen was traded for a 6th round pick in 2020 after signing a 4 year 58M contract.

Even Calais Campbell was only worth a 5th round pick in 2020 because his contract was 4year 60M.

Now, some of those players were cases where the team acquiring the player was taking a flier on a highly drafted/thought of player who was not performing up to their contract (like Ereck Flowers), but most of those were established starting players who their team just couldn't afford to pay the contract that they signed them to.

And that has a cost in terms of what you get back.

Bolles is 30 years old, has two fairly large cap hits in the next two seasons and is coming off of a season ending injury.

I'd offer them a 5th round pick for him, and I'd go up to a 3rd round pick if there is some competition for him. But I don't know if there would be at that price.