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When you factor in the current contract that he's on for this year, this puts Dawson Knox's overall contract at 5 yrs, $56ish million, which is just over $11 mil per year average. This slots him under Jonnu Smith and Hunter Henry. This is an extension so I would be surprised if they didn't add some money to this season and the bonus is spread out over the 5 years starting with this season.

I forgot about PS guys counting against the cap, but I think 4.5 million is a little high. Also, there is no requirement to have vets on the practice squad so the Bills can get to as low as 2.6 million against from the PS. I have the Knox extension around 4yr - 50 million. It makes very little sense to not extend him before the offseason if they are close on value because moving money into this current season by way of the prorated signing bonus and guaranteed salary is one of the primary benefits to Bills in terms of re-signing him.

With likely cuts to get to 53, we'll be roughly 8.5 to 10 million under the cap for this season. That's a huge cushion to take on a pretty good year 1 cap hit for an extension. My money though would be on a Knox extension. They can give him more money up front and raise his cap hit this year which can make his deal alot more team favorable in the long run

Sure, they could try to develop a mid to late round pick. But if you could send a veteran player about to be let go in a year(Poyer or Edmunds) and two 1sts (both likely to be mid to late 20s) for a cost controlled, under-paid top flight CB for 5 years, would you do that? I think I might. We are a team now that is going to be at the salary cap every year. So I could see the rationale in using picks to try get cheaper, more sure fire talent.

He also just retweeted a recent Joe Haden tweet. I know the two have worked out together in the off-season.

12 - right now i think this might be the base offense. Davis, Diggs, Knox, Howard. Maybe even with 11 with McKenzie coming in for Howard. 22 - in Kromer's 4 years in LA they did not have a FB. Gilliam came out of college as a TE so I think he'll still have a role but i could also see us drafting a more traditional TE in the 3rd/4th round and not having any formations with a true FB

I'm just saying these are the only real moves to be made to free up space(other than more restructures or extensions). Ford and Bates combine right now for almost $5 million. I don't think that's the plan moving forward.

Bills can still free up almost $4 million by cutting Matakevitch and Cody Ford. Also Ryan Bates currently counts against the cap at 2.5 million but he's either going to get signed away or he's going to re-sign and i think that number goes down too.

I think any contract can be restructured. Hyde still has 1 "regular" year remaining after this one. They can simply extend his contract into the future tearing up those "void" years. It's only locked in if they intend to simply let the contract run out after the 2023 season. I think.

I would imagine that they have every intention of re-signing Hyde after this season which would essentially tear up those void years.

Not athletic enough AND actually is expensive at a 2.3 mil cap hit. They can save 1.4 million by cutting him. I'm guessing he's either traded or a training camp cut.

So he's gauranteed 12.7 million for this year. That doesn't mean that he won't sign for less than that on a long term deal. Can easily structure something so that he gets more money up front or over the first 2 years AND it lowers his overall cap hit early on.

played for Kromer for 2 years in LA when McVay first was hired. Perfect fit for an athletic blocking scheme. I'm guessing he can play either G position

I don't think we signed McKenzie to that contract for him to be the locked in slot WR. If they can get Landry at a good price, that would be a great addition.

No. They will need about 5ish mil or less depending how the top 51 contracts play out. They can likely get that by cutting guys who are likely to lose jobs in camp, etc, depending on how the draft goes. Wouldn't worry about this.

Getting more athletic on OL. I would think that they are going to go all in on a more zone-based blocking scheme, so maybe Ford is also going to go. He's cheap on a trade so they might actually be able to get a late round pick for him

IMO McKenzie re-sign indicates that the Bills are likely going WR in RD2 or RD3, although RD1 is not out of the question. He is essentially on a 1 year deal and he's a proven commodity and has comfort with the offense. This allows them to either (a). draft a 2nd round WR and not force him into being a starter which also allows them to not pass a high end CB or DL if one falls to them at 25 OR (b). draft Jameson Williams at 25 and not havbe to worry about rushing him into the lineup too quickly.

Kromer's last two years in LA they also ran a ton of 2TE sets. Knox being a true TE allows them the possibility of using Engram as hybrid TE/WR. Draft a 2nd day WR and your weapons are in a good place moving forward for a few years.

Akiem Hicks has the market value and can probably be signed for less gtd $$. I think this is just Phillips pricing himself out of what the Bills want to spend for a 1T, 2 down DT.

I don't think he would be considered a big name FA. All the Gronk talk started again around combine time. I think it's gotta be him.

I hear what you are saying, but I'm thinking in terms of tiers of market value. I understand that you are saying Kirk at around $12 mil/yr is going to attract more teams, maybe many more, than the top tier talent. And maybe that inflates his final number. But if he's so in demand that he gets above market value, let's say aggressively $14/yr, wouldn't that drive those teams to the higher talent anyway? Why pay Kirk $14 mil/yr when you can pay Robinson, Cooper, or Williams $16-17mil/yr? Couple that with the idea that teams could get a legitimate starting WR in the draft from picks 20-50 and i think you might see a hard ceiling for the guys in that $10-12 mil/yr tier.

Davante Adams Chris Godwin Amari Cooper Allen Robinson Mike Williams OBJ Kirk Gallup DJ Chark He's either top of tier 3 or bottom of tier 2. Not to mention that he's got at least 4 guys in direct competition with him at his own price point. $7 mil/yr is obviously way too low. But I think 4yr/40-45 mil with like 30%-40% gtd in the 1st 2 years is where I'd be willing to go. Then you essentially decide between Davis and Kirk after 2 years.

This will also bring down values in the 2nd and 3rd tier of FA WRs, which is where Kirk is. Deep WR draft won't affect the top WRs but you could see some value suppression as all these teams are going to be thinking the same thing about getting WRs in the draft round 1-4. Difference is that the Bills want to win now now and other teams who are still building could see the advantage of drafting a WR.

SHOCKING that the guy who hosts a podcast with Jim Monos and Doug Whaley would come out with yet another McDermott hit piece. This tries to come off as a Seth Wickersham-style deep dive is just Dunne carrying Whaley's and Monos' water for them.

It does somewhat because you can sign your draft picks after June 1