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James Cook will play for the Bills in 2025. He will not "hold out" all season. He is still on his rookie contract. It's nothing like what happened with LeVeon Bell. Beane will offer a contract to Cook and his agent. If they don't like it, they will move on as a UFA in 2026. A few social media tweets are blowing this thing way out of proportion.

He was a 7th round pick. Got released and signed to the PS.

The cap hasn't been "mismanaged". If anything Beane is too conservative handling the cap. If he wanted to, he could free up $60M-$70M in space in March. Typically, Beane has been a "pay as you go" GM compared to many. Tre, Von and Diggs wasted a chunk of money but that was driven by injuries and Diggs doing Diggs things. All 3 of those should have been among the "pro" elite type guys. Overpaid some for Knox but that is not a cap killer by any means. There was a huge turnover in starters last season and the team still performed. As for Josh and his cap. Beane is actually using cap for a good % of Josh's AAV. As of now no cap is pushed out past the end of Josh's contract. Compare that to Hurts who already has $100M pushed out PAST the end of his contract. Like I said, if anything Beane is too conservative.

It's a sticky situation for all involved. I'm sure you would feel different if it was your daughter getting abused. I leave these decisions to the owners and management.

Congrats Josh!

I'm not sure what you are concerned about. Spencer was signed to a contract that pays him "on average" of $18M per year. He is only costing $8M in cap this year. Thus, the future years are a little more than $18M. Brown's contract is much less than what top Right Tackles are making. This is how the majority on NFL contracts are handled throughout the league.

He costs more to cut than to keep. Brady needs to get Josh and Curtis on the same page this summer and Curtis needs to stay healthy and step up to the challenge.

I have said the same a couple of times already. The Browns could swing it, but it would really hurt. They could trade CB Greg Newsome to dump his 5th year option cap ($13.3M). Restructure Denzel Ward ($11M) and get a few million on some other players. BUT the only way to really open up cap is to restructure Deshaun Watson and push the money owed him out. That is a horrible, horrible option.

First, Josh will be getting his 2025 salary guaranteed when they restructure it in a couple of weeks. At that time too, he gets his 2026 option bonus guaranteed. Josh will most likely sign a new contract sometime in the 2026 season. Removing the big "cap hit" for 2026 has no doubt been planned.

Yes. After that, make a decision on his future.

Player's "cap costs" are not evenly spaced throughout their contracts. Every year is different. A recent new contract was for Spencer Brown. You can see how different the cap costs are. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/72474/spencer-brown

Yes it does. If cut in March, his "void year" cost in rolled into the total dead cap for 2025. His total guaranteed in 2025 is only $3.9M https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/14523/daquan-jones

True. Although the Top 51 cap limit is not affected much by draft picks. Temas need that cap space for FA the most. The Bills typically need only $2M to sign their draft picks.

The CBA was written to take care of the low end. Every year the rookies, vet minimums and even the PS players get around a 7% raise. That equates to the average overall cap increase, although that got knocked off some because of the Covid years. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cba