03-01-2017, 11:02 AM
(03-01-2017, 10:30 AM)ochocincos Wrote: But if they only do spend about $15 million on this year's FA, they will be under the cap.
The only way the Bengals could spend over the salary cap and still only pay $15 million in FA this year is to put a great deal of the remaining money toward extending the upcoming 2018 FAs.
That list is headed by Eifert and Burfict. This list also has players like Jeremy Hill and Russell Bodine, but IMO those players are not worth extending. It also should not cost $15 million in cap space to extend both Eifert and Burfict.
Burfict may make about $7-8 million a year if they extend him.
They could chose to let him go to free agency and low ball him...as there are some teams that won't want his on-field antics. All it takes is one team to make a huge offer though.
