Ja' Marr Chase's Contract: Should Bengals let him walk?

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(8 hours ago)J24 Wrote: Let's me clear this up.

 The guranteed money is the main issue not the cap price. If you pay Chase he is going to double what Tee gets in guaranteed money. We're looking at  least 100 million  in guaranteed money and probably closer to 120 million for Chase. While Tee is probably going to get between 50 and 60 million in guaranteed money.





You can get a decent 3T for 18 to 21 Million a year with anywhere from 30 to 45 Million guranteed money and a  nose tackle for 15 to 20 million a year with with 15 to 25 in guranteed money.

So Chase at 120 million guranteed or Tee 60 million guaranteed + 3T at 40 Million guranteed + a NT at 20 million. guranteed. 

Yes, we're going to have cut players for it to work and yes we are going to have to draft a WR early next draft(even if we keep both Wrs we would draft another WR early in the next draft) to make it work it.

So then your original equation isn't very good if you're not including the people we'd need to both cut and required draft picks made to make it work.

$40m/yr and by your own numbers $63-71m/yr over a shorter number of years (so there's less time to move it around or backload it) IS a pretty significant cap difference that you can't just put on the backburner when talking about which option is better.

Not to mention that all of that is assuming there is even a really good $18-21m/yr 3T and $15-20m/yr NT are both available in FA in the first place, which I don't think there is. I just saw a list where right now BJ Hill is considered the 5th best DT in the 2025 FA class. Apparently it's a very weak IDL FA class. Alim McNeill is currently the highest rated IDL according to multiple lists I just checked.