Jim O - Expect Bengals to have about $15 mill for open FA market

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(03-11-2018, 01:42 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Dunlap will likely get paid by some team at a top 10 4-3 DE salary. That would be average $9+ mill a year. His salary cap hit for 2018 is $7.3 mill. He should get at least a $2 mill a year raise.

Atkins will likely get paid like a top 5 DT, which averages at least $14 mill a year. Atkins’s cap hit for 2018 is $9.5 mill. He should also get at least $5 mill a year bump.

And while I understand wanting to say the raises won’t come until 2019, the way the Bengals have been doing business the past few years is having the extensions consume some of the upcoming year’s cap to reduce the cap hit on subsequent years.

Agree with it or not, that’s how the FO chooses to handle extensions.


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Yes I agree that's what they do but the math still does not add up to us only having 15 million in cap space because of it