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Originally Posted by Couch-Potato
I’m not sure I see any reason we can’t pay ~$21m for sneed, gay, and Bolton at ~$7m each + sign CJ. Not sure we’d have much room to play with elsewhere but those are all high caliber players worth retaining imo.
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in 2025, Creed, Trey are done with their rookie deals, and Justin Reed and MVS are also free agents again and Toney will be on his 5th year option, which as a 1st round pick will not be cheap. It's the problem with having a couple of successful drafts in a row (although a nice problem to have overall).
You can't pay all of these guys the market rate for their performance, you start spending $20m a year on linebackers in 2025 then you probably can't afford to be paying Creed, Trey and Taylor their market value on the Oline and actually have any weapons.
Just looking at 2024 in isolation, the cap situation looks great but it takes a turn pretty quick in 2025.