Mike Hodges LB Coach

[SunsetBengal]

(01-28-2025, 01:22 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Even starting at a $47-$49 starting point, you have 51 guys under contract. 

1) The only rookie that costs significantly more than the guy he displaces is the Rd1 pick. Say +$2 mil more.

2) The PS + the last 2 roster slots (under $1 mil each) will indeed add around $5 mil. 

So, yeah, we are in the $40-$42 mil range, not counting the padding/cushion. 

But it is pretty easy to get close to $100 mil. 

1) Cut the dead wood. Cappa nets $8 mil, Rankins $8.6, Hubbard $9.5, Volson $3.5, Moss $3.3. By my count, that is $33 mil. So we are now at $73-$75 mil. 

2) Max restructure for Burrow adds $19 mil. $91-$94 mil. 

3) Other possible cut candidates: Stone ($6.475), Pratt ($5.85), Sample ($2.75). Post June 1: OBJ ($7.26), McPherson ($2.5), Burton ($1.059). 

My point is we have LOTS more that $47 mil in cap, not less. If we choose to go that route. 

Most of us are completely aware of the moves that could be made to gain more cap space, but what moves do we realistically see being made?

We know that the Bengals are historically dead set against pushing money into the future, I'd be very surprised to see anything like that happen.

I think that some of those cuts are very necessary (Rankins, Hubbard, Volson, Moss, Burton), and when you look at the cost of improving over what we have on guys like Stone, Pratt, Sample, etc., I think that we're more likely to see them remain than not.