Look Ahead- 2025 Offseason

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(12-11-2024, 12:36 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: We have so many holes to fill next year. IOL, DE, DT, and S are the big ones.

WR if Tee goes and WR3 if he stays. TE is still a potential issue with All's injury and Gesicki a FA.

We have numbers at CB (CTB, Hill, Turner, Newton, Ivey, Williams) but no true #1 and Hilton is a FA.

I love Wagner as a player, but at 34 and the fact that we have two decent level starters at LB already puts LB as a tertiary need for us in my book. Behind DE, DT, IOL, S, WR, TE, and CB. Still, ADG is a FA. And we could use an upgrade from OK to actually good. It might depend on the price.

I think a pricier FA (Wagner makes $6 mil) will go to another position where the need is more dire.

The difference between a guy like Wagner and Pratt/Wilson is the leadership and ancillary benefits. He single handily turns bad defense into mediocre. And mediocre to good. His presence would have the biggest bang for buck for the defense, outside of maybe a DC