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When you cut a player like White who has multiple years left on his contract.......... Cutting before June 1st means all the dead cap from all the remaining years is applied to this season. Cutting after June 1st means only this year's dead cap is applied, and the rest goes on to next year's dead cap. Boils down to Beane having some more money for this year.

No big thing. More me just seeing how the dead cap gets spaced out. The thing is, I agree that Beane should get the WR early in the draft because Diggs won't be on the team for much longer IMO.

I'm of the opinion that Stef and Von are both gone next season. One will be a June 1st cut to spread out some of the dead money. Von has zero trade value but Stef's $17M cap hit ($0 dead money) for a team trading for him is a possibility. Possibly a 4th or 5th. If he can't get a trade, he could reverse who is the June 1st cut. Diggs cap savings if PRE-June 1st is $5M. That pays a lot of Samuel's cap hit and with a cost-controlled rookie WR (1st or 2nd) the WR room is set for 2025 and 2026. No way Beane is paying $50M for Diggs and Miller to play in 2025. Beane has to see it this way and that's why he won't wait until the 4th round for a WR IMO. These 2 moves get him out of the cap problems he faced this March. He already got 1/3 of the way there with White and Morse. The 2 options are (cap $ rounded) Diggs traded and Miller (June 1st): 2025 Dead: $29M 2026 Dead: $9M Miller cut and Diggs (June 1st): 2025 Dead: $24M 2026 Dead: $13.4M

No. After the Chargers eat dead cap, Bears cap hit is $23.1M with no guaranteed money. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/chicago-bears/keenan-allen-12357/

I think you won't be shocked.

He also ran for 200 yards (2 TDs) with Brady as OC in Carolina.

He had a lot of nagging injuries last year but played through them and still caught 17 more balls than Gabe. I take it you don't like the signing?

Teddy Bridgewater.

Keep that line in the water. Someone will bite.

The rookie will not be anywhere near fulltime to start. They will get through it. It gives Brady all kinds of packages to use.

Spotrac and OTC do not have accurate numbers from Dawkins and Knox and any other stuff we don't know about. I will bet that Sameul's 2024 cap hit will be around $6M. Beane has that.

If Beane goes with an early outside WR (who won't be getting 80% of snaps to start) how do you see using Diggs/Samuel and Shakir together? I'm not saying full time, just in packages. I think Shakir and Samuel on one side with Diggs on the other could be a threat.

Could not agree with you more!!!

Unless something changes Beane has to think that Diggs is not long for the team. A June 1 cut or trade has to be a possibility next year. I'd still look to go with a 1st (2nd at the latest) WR this draft.

LOL. You beat me to the punch. I used "corpse" for Newton, "broken" works too!

Since Curtis Samuel has come into the league, he has had these QBs throwing footballs to him. Corpse of Cam Newton Kyle Allen Will Grier Teddy Bridgewater PJ Walker Garrett Gilbert Ryan Fitzpatrick (Had 3 completions for his Commanders career) Carson Wentz Taylor Heinicke Sam Howell Just a "reality check" for any stat hunters.

I was strictly talking about his cost. He will come in this year with a $6M-ish cap hit if the $24M (up to $30 with incentives) is accurate. With Beane's cap situations it's about the highest he can go this year.

Pretty much agree. After you consider the WRs under rookie contracts I got him closer to bottom #2 pay.

Suddenly Hollins is fighting for one of the last WR slots. After a drafted WR and assuming the Bills keep 6.

Have you seen what top WR are getting the last couple of years? Heck, Samuel is getting what Zay Jones and JuJu are signed for. It's a middle cost WR contract to me.

I was hoping for a middle cost WR. Hope him and Josh meld quickly.

I guess. I think he is ok for #3. Another "stat" could be his 5.2 yards per touch was 2nd best for all RBs except Cook (5.6). I don't mind him coming to camp at all, but I can see others don't agree.

They seem to constantly role in and out of high-priced guys. I don't understand their plan. They will live and die with Tua getting rid of the ball quickly. If he signs for $50M AAV it will be a big risk.

I wouldn't hate him ending up on the Bills PS.

Ty Johnson had a $626k cap hit with the Bills last year. Van Demark had a bigger hit. Beane is just signing some guys he wants to bring to camp. He may be able to do something after the draft, but the draft is where any real help is coming from. Beane could be waiting to sign 1 middle of the road UFA. He seems to have enough cap room to do that. I don't expect more than that.