Free Agency expectations?

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The Bengals currently have $53.3 mill in cap space.
$18 mill would be eaten up by AJ Green franchise tag.
However, that basically would get offset by getting Dalton's salary off the books ($17.7 mill).
Remove ~$11 mill estimated for draft pool, and you're down to $42 mill.

That $42 mill obviously will get partially eaten up by internal guys, but it's probably safe to say they'll be able to put $15-25 mill toward outside FAs this year.

Getting rid of DK would add $8 mill to the cap this year and nearly $10 mill to the cap next year. Removing him would help if they had a guy in mind for FA (or Dennard).

With all of that said, I'd like them to get a couple above average starters via outside FA (Littleton and Thuney/Glasgow), but with how many holes they have, I'm expecting 4-5 mid-tier guys instead.