Bengals Dumped 40 Million in Payroll Over Free Agency

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(06-02-2023, 02:38 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Well, the OP is slanting things a bit. Money in should really be compared with what we were paying the guys that left. But regardless, we are surely saving money for the big payouts coming for guys on rookie deals (Burrow, Higgins, Wilson, Chase).

Out (per year):
Bates: $12.9
Bell: $7.5
Apple: $3.75
Hurst: $3.5  
Perine: $1.85
Flowers: $1.8
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$31.3 million

Scharping went from $2.54 to $1.28. That's another $1.26 mil. So lets rounf & say $32.5 total savings  

In (yearly):
Brown: $10.4  
Scott $2.4
Smith: $1.75
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$14.55. Rounded to $14.5. So that yields $18 mil diff.

But a lot of guys got raises. Biggest jumps:
Burrow: $9.9 to  $11.5  = $2.6
Jonah: $5.6 to $12.6 = $7
Pratt: $2.8 to $5.4 = $2.6
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$12.4

Now you are down to under $5 mil, and that is not taking into account other raises, team wide. Or figuring in the extensions that are coming (around $15 mil). When all is said & done, we'll be closer to the cap this year than last, meaning we increased spending by more than the cap went up. But not by a lot.

Great job by Katie & the FO..We landed a LT upgrade in FA. We need some 2nd years (Hill, Volson, Carter, Ossai) and new guys (Scott, Smith) to deliver. Rooks, too. But we also get Chido, Boyd, Cappa, Collins, & Jonah back from the team that ALMOST beat the Chiefs last year.

I don't think I ever realized that Irv Smith's contract was only $1.75 mill, and I see Sample's at just $1.1 mill. Asiasi also at $1.1 mill.
The top 3 projected TEs are all in contract year, but combined making just about $4 mill total.
If at least one of them can step up to produce decently well, this group is a heck of a steal cost-wise.
On paper though, it's about the worst among all teams for TE.