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(Yesterday, 05:10 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: So were Pratt and Wilson the wrong guys to give the bigger deals to on the defensive side of the ball?

Should it have been Bates and perhaps Reader?

Pratt's and Wilson's are pretty low compared to other off-ball LBs like Roquan Smith, Fred Warner, Tremaine Edmunds, and Patrick Queen.
All those dudes are >$13.5 mill

Wilson is 30th highest paid LB at $9 mill APY, Pratt is 43rd at $6.75 mill APY.

Bengals have over $50 mill in 2024 allocated cap toward Hendrickson, Hill, Hubbard, and Rankins.

On the offensive side, the Bengals only had $70-80 mill in cap allocated there in 2021-2022.
It's jumped up to nearly $120 mill this season.
Burrow and Higgins are occupying $50 mill of that.