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If he's replacing anyone, it would more likely be KJ Hamler or Jalen Virgil on the Practice Squad.

That's why he's a camp body. Not everyone signed right now is going to be an impact starter or even guaranteed a roster spot. And Shenault is one of those that are far more unlikely to make the roster than someone who would. It's not like he prevents us from signing anyone else or that we chose to bring in Shenault over a Superstar. We have to bring 90 bodies to camp and Shenault is just one of those guys.

Yeah, camp bodies get signed during the first week of Free Agency too. But when it happens, people freak out.

Agreed. But it's another Returner in Camp. Like I said, I see him as a camp body. He's very much in line with the kind of flyers we threw at guys like Claypool and Cephus last season.

Beat me to it 😛 I see him as competition for Brandon Codrington more than anything else. If he proved to be a better Special Teamer, they'd prob keep him as a 6th WR and carry 5 CB's instead of it being the other way around last year. But more likely just a Cephus/Claypool type camp body like last year. A once big time prospect now looking for a Camp opportunity to prove himself somewhere. Far more likely to not stick then stick. Could possibly stick on the Practice Squad, as he did ending last year with Seattle.

Beyond it not making sense for us, giving how many Slots and 50/50 Slots we already have (between Shakir, Samuel, and Kincaid - as well as occasionally sliding Coleman inside on certain assignments) - it really doesn't make sense for Kupp either. He was let go in large part of the redundancy of his natural position they had in LA with Puka Nacua - choosing to keep Nacua. He's not going to sign somewhere where he'd run into the same situation, for the kind of "everyone eats", split starter role he'd have with Shakir. I don't see us paying what he's asking for the role he'd have here and he's going to want to go somewhere where he's "the man". And we didn't sign Shakir to the extension we signed him for to take second fiddle to someone else and/or not be utilized as much from his natural position.

Even if this wasn't a red flag, I questioned if Samuel was the kind of Cornerback a coach like McDermott would want. Samuel is like a Poor Man's Deion Sanders. A guy who is pretty good to very good at times in coverage, but is a pretty poor tackler who seems to want to avoid hitting. Which this ailment he was born with may explain.

They also brought in Kingsley Jonathan a month ago. They're big fans of our year end Practice Squad DE's.

Hoecht will probably be moved around. But his base position would be Defensive End, not Defensive Tackle. He was brought in to Pass Rush from the Edge.

Except he's perpetually injured. He's never played a full season. The Texans signed him to a 1 year, 4.75m prove it deal last season... and then he went on IR after the first game. Ended up playing 6 games all year, no starts.

Back at 1 year, 2 million. Yikes. Talk about a rough league assessment when testing the market.

And on the other point - if they decided to release Leonard Floyd before they had Joey Bosa on so much as an agreement (when they could have had him pen to paper, as he was released) - they were going to do that regardless. That was also coincidental. But the "story" of them looking dumb by cutting him because they thought they had Bosa locked up is more fun. Albeit surely inaccurate.

Cornerback is the last big thing to do before the Draft. Need replacements for Rasul Douglas and now Kairi Elam's roster spot as well.

No. He's not a reporter. Just a follow for follow fan. Any account that you can't find any credentials for and has a 16,000+ follow count v. 17,000 followers is an immediate red flag.

I think that would depend on what his market is and/or what the plan is with Benford's extension. Cornerbacks cost a fortune this year. And I feel like Alexander would top the list. I don't know that they'd pay what Alexander will cost and pay what Benford will cost at the same time. I'd be here for it though.

For the millionth time, that's a bs account. Not a real reporter. Just go through their other tweets. You'll see them announce deals that haven't happened. Doesn't mean we couldn't sign him, as he's still available (although I question his fit with a McDermott team). But there's been nothing to say that we are actually trying to make that happen.

I love these trade ideas for the top superstars in the sport. Like "Maybe we can get Ja'Marr Chase"? I bet there's fans on other boards that say things like "any possibility we can get Josh Allen?". Even amongst the players who are talked about being available for trade or request a trade - more often than not they aren't traded (see Myles Garrett and, to date, Trey Hendrickson). There hasn't been anything about Bosa. He's on Year 2 of a 5 year, 170m extension. A lot of these moves you're seeing San Fran do is so that they can hold on to Bosa, McCaffrey, and pay Purdy. They're not trading him. He's the face of their franchise and the best DE in Football. Even if he was made available - we just paid Greg Rousseau an 80m extension. We just signed Joey Bosa for 12.6m. We just signed Michael Hoecht to a 24m 3 year deal. We wouldn't then pick up a 35m a year Defensive End and give up the insane amount of picks it would take, that we'll need to use at other positions, after already addressing Defensive End in Free Agency and Extensions. If we were going to do something like that, we wouldn't have made all 3 of those moves.

This says to me that he didn't have a market. It doesn't make much sense for either side. I thought if anyone could use a change of scenery and a fresh start, it was Damar - after everything that hangs over his head here. And we definitely want to either start Cole Bishop or upgrade. With us bringing him back and signing Forrest - it tells me he didn't have any takers and playing for a roster spot here was his best shot at sticking. And I don't think that's guaranteed.

Oh, i'm sorry. I was looking quickly and missed that you were talking about Drafting a Running Back and not the trade value for Cook 😄

Agreed. I see a 4th being the ceiling for a Cook trade. Given that he's a Running Back, on the last year of his deal, and he's publicly stated he wants top market value dollar.

It's quite possible it was just to do things we've already done. We were over the cap coming in. We did the Josh extension which saved us probably around 11.8m. The Rousseau extension saved us 9.8m. The Von release saved us 8.4m The Oliver restructure saved us 10m. The Sam Martin release saved 2m. The Elam trade saved us 2.5m. And the Shakir and Bernard extensions saved us about 2m combined. So all of that probably put us around or just above 40m under the cap. But then we signed Joey Bosa, Josh Palmer, Larry Ogunjobi, Michael Hoecht, and Darrick Forrest. And re-signed Ty Johnson, Reggie Gilliam, Damar Hamlin, Ryan Vandemark, Alec Anderson, and Reid Ferguson. Without knowing the exact terms of how much we saved and how much the cap hits in are for each of them in Year 1 (or total for the 1 year contracts) - we probably don't have a *ton* of space left, even with the Oliver restructure. But maybe we do. EIther option wouldn't surprise me. That said, there are other things that we could do to save more. A McGovern extension could save 4.2m. A Dion Dawkins restructure could save us another 9.8m. And a Dawson Knox restructure could save us another 6.3m. But as we've seen in the past, just because he can pull all those levers doesn't mean that he'll do them all.

Whoever doesn't get Wilson or Rodgers will sign Jameis Winston as a bridge.

Oh, i'll take anything. Even if it was just the future 7th - that would have been fine with me. It's just to say that people who are like "wow - that's a lot!" probably aren't realizing it's (possibly) literally the 1st pick in the 6th Round for one of the picks at the bottom of the 5th.

It sounds like a lot, but i'd be interested to see where the 5th and 6ths are that were moved. We have the 1st pick in the 6th Round. So if we moved that for one of Dallas' comps - it really is like nothing.