Would NOT be surprised if this ends with a sign & trade. Non-exclusive tag. Bears come to mind. Hope he stays under a reasonable contract, but a good draft pick(s) wouldn’t be terrible.

Didnt realize that, sounds like hes going to retire anyways.

Looked it up, has never played a full season, yikes.

I think you're underestimating how many teams have more cap space than they have good players looking to sign with them.

I think it's nuts ruling out a 2nd round pick for him.

To draft Trey Smith in the 6th, get 4 good years of play out of him, then flip him for a 2nd would be awesome.

Don't we already have pretty much that right now with Thuney and Creed? But Thuney's deal is almost up and he'll retire soon-either way.

And if your top two WR's are years away from an extension, with your HOF TE probably going one, two years more tops-why does it matter?

Keeping your good offensive linemen seems like a perfectly smart thing to do as long as it's not problematic elsewhere.

And it's not.

yeah, it would be.

I don't think I'm seeing a team want to pay a top of the market RG AND give up an early pick, but what do I know?

The issue is that most teams DONT have a Thuney or Creed and may really want a blue chip IOL.

If you want that and you have plenty of cap space...well, gotta pay to play.

Sure, they'd rather give a 2 for a cheap premier OG. Or pay for a premier OG and not give a 2nd. But to my eyes, neither of those options are on the table.

Trade Trey smith for Allergic Jackson

Sure. Well, you know, maybe. That'd be cool. We'll see, I guess.

Welp. Think this says what the market feels will happen with Trey. Think they know Veach wants to keep him

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bears?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bears</a> are trading a 6th-round pick to LA for Jonah Jackson. Chicago is taking on the entire contract, which was a 3-year, $51M contract signed last offseason. <a href="https://t.co/MLWWMBDg6F">https://t.co/MLWWMBDg6F</a></p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1896979293240246537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Maybe... but Jackson has been a career LG. Played some OC last year. They might want both. I think it's indicative of the compensation on the market though. We won't get shit for Trey of any substance if Jackson is only worth a 6th.

Is this necessary? Tag him?

Soren Petro said yesterday the Chiefs could’ve traded Smith for a second and a third or a fourth. :rolleyes:

If Veach could get a 2nd and 3rd, I think the deal would already be done. No way he'd be that stupid.

Yeah, well, he's a piece of shit who knows **** all