Breaking: No extension for Eifert

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(09-13-2017, 01:41 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Some team with huge cap space will look to Eifert's potential and offer him good $$, taking that health gamble.
He'll get more on the open market than the Bengals will be willing to give.
The top 5 average salaries for TEs are Graham ($10 mill per), Kelce ($9.37 mill per), Reed ($9.35 mill per), Gronk ($9 mill per), and Ertz ($8.5 mill per).
Jordan Reed's is especially indicative of what Eifert will command given that Reed pulled in that kind of cash when he already had an injury-riddled career to that point. Washington paid him like the superstar he is when healthy, gambling on his injury chances.

Sure, franchise tag is a feasible short-term solution, but if he ever goes into a contract year without a new contract and isn't tagged, I'm highly confident he's leaving.

Yeah, Reed has missed a lot of games, but his are more nicks and such if I remember correctly. Hence the 17 games missed in his career so far to Eifert's 27. Eifert's future career seems iffy to me because he's constantly having some pretty serious injuries/surgeries. Same with Rob Gronkowski. I would be surprised if he is playing (or at least playing well) past his age 30 season.

Reed also has the same amount of TDs as Eifert, and almost 1,200 more yards in the same number of years. Even in Eifert's best season, he only averaged 47.3 yards/gm. Eifert is a total beast in the red zone, but not so much for the other 80 yards of the field. He falls in the same category as Burfict where it's hard to want to rely so much on a guy who will be hurt when you need him, regardless of the talent there.

The decision would be a whole lot easier if the Bengals had taken Howard or Engram in the draft, or Hunter Henry the year before.