Jonah Williams Requests Trade

[CJD]

He is free to request a trade, but I don't know how much we could get for him in a trade for a 5th year player making 12.6 million dollars with questions about whether or not he can play LT at a competent level and with no real information on whether he'd be better or worst at RT or guard. And, as we know, the Bengals aren't in the business of making other teams better. They aren't going to give away an asset just because he's big mad that he had a bad 2022 season and was replaced at the premium tackle spot (which he honestly probably never should have had to begin with).

If a team comes along and offers us a 2nd round pick or more, sure we can do that. But I wouldn't trade him for anything less. Make him sit on the bench and see if he decides, come September, that not playing RT is worth 12.6 million dollars + a really bad off season next year because he'll be coming off 1 bad year at LT, followed by one year on the bench. He'd probably be forced to take a 1 year prove it deal for the 2024 season for a low amount just to show teams that he is a capable starter, so he wouldn't get his big money extension until 2025 at the earliest.

I think he's better off just playing RT.

I'd also entertain the idea of us trading him and our first round pick for a top 15 pick to go get PJJ or Skoronski.