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There’s only 7 teams currently with enough cap room to take on his 2023 $19m salary and none of them are rumored destinations for him. So he effectively still has a no trade clause if he’s not willing to restructure.

2 years $33m for Hopkins is probably fair. Not sure why he wouldn’t agree to convert his $19m salary this year to a signing bonus. I also get why no team wants to give up premium draft picks for that contract. So if Arizona’s options are a 6th rounder without paying any of Hopkins’ 2023 salary or a 3rd rounder while paying $10m of his salary, I’d think they’d at least consider Oliver given how bad their D Line is unless they’re just completely tanking this year.

Draft is about next year as much as it is about this year. DT is definitely the biggest need on the team next year since Phillips, Jones, Oliver, and Settle are all free agents next year. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if Beane takes a DT with our 1st pick.

Makes too much sense to trade Oliver for Hopkins. Re-allocating cap dollars to the offense and then get a 1st round DT since we have no DT’s under contract next year with or without Oliver.

Laporta looked very impressive at the combine. Could be a RAC beast like Kittle. Only thing concerning were his hands. But his quickness, power and movement ability looked elite.

Pretty amazing how disciplined all NFL front offices have become. Hard to imagine there’s not a team out there that would give up something for Hopkins. He must want a pretty big new deal with guaranteed money.

I’d be highly surprised if the guarantees are more than vet minimum. And since he barely played last year, the $3m number is most likely heavy on NLTBE bonuses which don’t count against the current years cap.

Probably an announcement coming that we’ve re-signed Jordan Phillips. Usually how these things work.

I highly doubt he’s coming here to strictly be a backup. McDermott must have a plan to get him on the field or I don’t think he’d be coming to Bills.

Doubt he came here to be a backup who doesn’t see the field.

Agreed. Can definitely nitpick the weightings and grades because there’s a lot of numbers there, but overall it looks pretty on point.

The weightings are pretty interesting. 58% for offense and 42% for offense. Sounds right but like others have said, how is he coming up with the weightings?

Guess Beane isn’t an idiot after all.

I like it. Somebody at OBD sending him the message that he’s gotta up his game. I don’t think he ends up getting traded unless it’s for a Hopkins, Jeudy or Simmons. More likely McBeane is trying to light a fire under him.

WR, TE, OL, or DL. Off-ball LB’s have been de-valued almost as much as RB’s.

Not saying he would. Timing just curious that within a couple hours of Singletary signing with Texans, Bills sign Harris. Almost like Beane was waiting to see terms of Singletary’s deal. Because Harris was hurt last year, there’s a lot of NLTBE bonus money that Harris could probably easily earn this year as well.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Beane waited to see Singletary contract so he could structure Harris’s deal to preserve the 3rd round pick

Couldn’t Beane just call up his buddy Schoen and have him sign a Van Wroten, Hart, or Murphy to vet minimum deals?

Pre the latest injury, he definitely fit the good hands twitchy separator that Josh seems to do well with. If he hasn’t lost a step, he’d add a lot to the offense.

Completely agree. And when you have a year with a lot of injuries like last year, it really gets magnified when your paying special teams guys $3m per year and they can’t contribute at all on offense or defense.

RB is a position where you gotta know if a guy is still hungry to take the pounding. Huge question mark there with Fournette. If we could get Playoff Lenny or the Damien Harris from 2021, that’s the type of back we need. Probably better to draft one in the 5th or 6th round who’s big and hungry.

Will probably be a NY Giant by Monday

I think that’s a good fit for Gesicki. I liked the idea of bringing him here, but Gesicki wins with his length and jumping ability. Touch passers like Fitz and Mccorkle are a better fit for him than Josh. Guys that throw it up there even when he doesn’t look open. Josh does better with guys like Diggs and Beasley who create a lot of separation and Josh uses his Howitzer to get the ball to them. Probably why the Bills preferred Harty.

Cook is gonna be on the field more in his 2nd year and Hines will be used more as well. I think McDermott wants a downhill bruiser to round out the RB room.

Can certainly do worse but he commands no attention from defenses. He’s not explosive enough to break big runs and he’s not powerful enough to get the tough yards.