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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Hard pass. I want the Pats to go all in to get Mayfield. He is only 28.Theoretically Pats could send Denver a 5th in exchange for Wilson and a 2nd, in order to relieve them of his contract. Then NE could either keep him for what would basically be 2 years/$54 million fully guaranteed ($27m per year), after which all future salaries are non-guaranteed, or they could immediately cut him before the 5th day of the 2024 league year hits in order to avoid his 2025 salary becoming guaranteed and just take a $17m cap hit in 2024 in exchange for a 2nd rounder.
Depends on what you think of Wilson. I think he has looked better under Payton this year but obviously not quite what he once was. If they wanted to go the "veteran QB starter, draft a rookie to develop in 2nd round to sit for a year or two" route then Wilson is an option and you might be able to get a pick back in the deal that you could use to select said rookie. Just food for thought.
I think their options are:How can they possibly take such a big cap hit? That's nuts.
At most, a future team would only be willing to defray the cost by taking $15m of it.
There will be other decent QBs available, like Kirk Cousins, maybe Sam Howell, Chicago's Fields, Kyler Murray, you never know.
I don’t think any of it can be defrayed. No one is trading for that contract. They eat it all regardless of what his next free agent contract is.How can they possibly take such a big cap hit? That's nuts.
At most, a future team would only be willing to defray the cost by taking $15m of it.
There will be other decent QBs available, like Kirk Cousins, maybe Sam Howell, Chicago's Fields, Kyler Murray, you never know.
No one is trading for him.I think their options are:
A) Cut him with a post-june 1st designation to eat around a $35M dead cap hit in 2024 and defer the remaining ~$50M dead cap hit to 2025
B) Find someone who will trade for him, which raises the 2024 dead cap hit to around ~$68M, but leaves the 2025 cap untouched