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Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla
If they'd kept and paid Baker (and retained their picks), they'd be pretty nasty right now.
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I mean presume they retain Mayfield - the cap benefits alone to this point would be massive.
And if they just take the consensus player at 13, they end up with Kyle Hamilton in 2022. Let's say having Mayfield instead of Watson in 2023 puts them in the same position Tampa ended up -- they could take Zay Flowers at 19 with the pick they gave up and then in 2024 lets say they draft at 25 -- they could have taken Nate Wiggins to help cover for Ward's concussion issues.
Hamilton, Flowers and Wiggins plus likely around $50 million in cap savings or at LEAST no need to engage in the sort of cap ****ery that's going to sabotage them over the next 2-3 seasons.
I mean yeah - the entire exchange was catastrophic.