Seems like a reasonable compromise for Collins and the Texans: guaranteed, life changing money on one year of top production at a significant discount to the top of the market.
Should the Bills be doing the same thing with Spencer Brown?
Using your hits and misses, a 52% success rate in Round 1 (11 of 21) vs. a 27% success rate in Rounds 2 and 3 (14 of 52).
So, you’d be better off trading down, getting a 2 and a 3 for a 1, and giving yourself a cumulative 54% chance at success.
We are the betting favorites to win the division and have the fifth-best odds to win the Super Bowl. It’s not like the media wasn’t running stories last off-season about how the Jets and Dolphins have passed the Bills.
ETA: fifth behind last year’s four finalists.
My understanding is that that’s not a thing anymore. You don’t have to designate players die return when you put them on IR. Everyone is eligible to return, up to eight a year.
Even that article says the Raiders use outside grades in free agency, meaning that, when the organization doesn't have access to inside info, those grades are as good as anything the team can do itself. Suggests value to me.
This is a surprisingly rich contract. $8.5 million cap his in 2023, only $1.5 million in savings if he's released. They clearly preferred him to Harrison Phillips at the same money.
Bills are already down to $15 million in 2023 cap space, if the cap goes up $10 million. And that's with Edmunds, Knox and Poyer as free agents. They must be counting on the cap going up a lot more than $10 million.