02-24-2025, 02:57 PM
(02-23-2025, 09:39 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Josh Palmer: spotrac projection 3yr/$12.8m
Tyler Boyd: 1yr/$3m
Trade for either Noah Fant (1yr/$9m) or Kyle Pitts (1yr/$10.9m) for a Day 3 pick.
None of them singularly replace Tee, but each do their part while also keeping scrubs off the field by there being 3 NFL-caliber players being added, so we don't see Charlie Jones or Cam Grandy caliber players taking offensive snaps. Burrow also would get the most talented TE he's had in his career thus far regardless of which one of the two we get.
That's ~$15-17m in cap space this year for the 3 of them, leaving you with $9-11m left from the Tee $26m tag number to put towards signing OG Trey Smith or DE Josh Sweat.
(02-23-2025, 10:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: We lack top end talent at WR? LOL...We have THE top end talent at WR in Chase.
What we lack at WR is NFL-caliber depth, and Tee doesn't solve that because he's not going to be on the field 45% of the time. Heck, on top of signing Palmer and Boyd I would still use a 2nd or 3rd on a WR as well so that Iosivas is our 4th or 5th WR and only comes onto the field when we're inside the 10 yard line. He's the only other player in our WR room that would likely make another NFL roster for anything more than ST, and most of the other guys wouldn't even do that.
Fant blocks, Gesicki doesn't. Pitts doesn't block, but he's a better pass catcher than Gesicki. Both would be clear upgrades at TE and are still young enough to be at least a 3-4 year solutions. Gesicki is also both going into his age 30 season and isn't nearly as good but just got the Burrow TE bump. People were certain that we needed to re-sign Uzomah, people were certain we needed to re-sign Hurst. Gesicki is just more of the same.
You can still cut Hubbard and Cappa and use that savings to sign Trey Smith without re-signing Tee, and then you can use that $11m towards ALSO signing Josh Sweat.
Smith + Sweat + Palmer + Pitts + Boyd >>> Higgins + Smith (and still having Yoshi as a starter and C Jones/Burton playing a lot as soon as Tee inevitably gets hurt and having Murphy as a starter).
Nice posts TLL. Any of these moves would make me feel much better about tagging and trading Tee. We could add 3 players and between all
of them they could easily replace Tee's numbers especially with him inevitably missing games. Palmer, Boyd and Pitts sounds really good to me
as we would be able to add a Guard like Trey Smith, Will Fries, James Daniels, Tevin Jenkins etc as well.
