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Originally Posted by PHOG
Well, yes. But I'm going on the fact he's just 23 right now, and should, SHOULD be lot's of room for improvement. And yes, we do have a lot of other pieces we need to decide what to do with.
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He's pretty maxed out and there really wasn't much of a '3rd year leap' from him.
It's pretty rare for a guy to really move forward much from where Karlaftis is, especially when he's as physically mature as he's like to ever be.
The bend will just never get there. He can refine his hand-fighting and if that REALLY explodes forward, you have Hendrickson on your hands and kick yourself for losing him for the next half-decade.
But again, that doesn't happen often.
Eh - my answer's easy. You likely sign Bolton this off-season and you ABSOLUTELY get a McDuffie extension done the moment it's allowed by league rules.
Then you see what's left.
If you can still build a viable defense around GK and his contract - that's cool. But I think you may be better served signing Chase Young, getting a year with both of them and then moving GK for a 2nd rounder after you activate his 5th year option.
Whatever we do, it centers around McDuffie. It's not dissimilar to Mahomes in that regard -- the answer to the rest of the offense was "Get Mahomes done, spend what you have left"
That's how I'm approaching this defense as well. McDuffie is the only 'must sign' on it.