About 6 of that will go to the Draft Picks.
Assuming Shields gets a 1st round tender that's 3 million. EDS will most likely get a 2nd round tender for 2 million.
Don't think anybody else (including Crabtree) gets one. So we'd be at about 9 million.
Newz wrote:Have we created enough money to extend/tag/resign all of Rodgers, Matthews, Raji and Shields?
If so, would there be enough room left to go after a free agent if we wanted?
No idea. Everything is dependent on the type of extension. I could see Matthews getting every dime that's left over from this year as the first year of his new deal totally guaranteed. That would save us money in future years.
Because Raji was a high pick in the era of inflated rookie contracts, he's already getting a pretty good wage. I could see us bumping Raji up from 5-7 this year and bumping Matthews from 1 to 8 with the rest. Because they're not FAs, they're still under contract and are technically restructures/resignings, it gives us a lot of wiggle room.
One thing I think is extremely likely is that if Finley isn't cut, and I don't think he will be, that part of his extension is lessening his cap hit this year. Instead of having 1/8 he'd get something like 5/27.5. That saves us 2.5 million that would probably be the raise that Raji will need. Could then use some of that money to give Rodgers a nice little raise.
