Recent content by Evilgrin72

Should be ready week 1.  Great news, no surgery. 

That was a typo, I meant to write 10th.  Large fingers typing on a phone - sometimes you get that. :lol:

1 keeper, right? So Hunt is useless to you otherwise if you keep Kamara (clearly the right keeper)? If yes to both, why not? It's no skin off your nose and you get to move up 3 spots. The only downside is you also strengthen an opponent significantly as he will now have Hunt and #5 and get his...

Barkley is a slot deal, so I believe that to be irrelevant.  Gurley's deal will be relevant, though.  It all boils down to what teams are willing to offer huge money to a 27-year old Bell.  No way to know that now, but it only takes 1 team to throw a boatload of money at him.

A lot of the existing 1st year salaries you reference are low because they needed to structure the deals that way to get under the cap.  Bell has a $14+M cap hold right now, so the need to reduce that 1st year salary wouldn't have been there.  Also, many of those deals have been restructured...

The Steelers don't guarantee salary.  FTR, the Rams didn't either, only the years on Gurley's rookie deal are guaranteed as per the CBA.  "Guaranteed money" is paid as signing/roster bonuses.  Unless I'm mistaken, no one really gets fully guaranteed salaries outside of QBs, and even those deals...

It's going to annoy a few people because they didn't think of it first, but oh well. :lol:

Yes, pretty much.  Incidentally, the "45 million" that Gurley was guaranteed is somewhat misleading. That includes the two years remaining on his rookie deal as well as so-called rolling guarantees, which could easily have existed in the Bell offer too. The total fully guaranteed new money in...

If I make the trade prior to declaring a keeper, I would sacrifice pick 10 for Elliott rather than 6.

Basically, yeah. He didn't want to do it and that's understandable, but that's the way they structure deals and they have a track record of keeping their guys around for most, if not all, of their contracts. You don't think AB could have gotten more than $19M guaranteed on the open market last...

Also, if I do decide to keep Elliott, I'm already trying to trade picks 6 and 19 for 10 and 15. No reason for the guy at 10 not to trade according to value calculators and I'll move up 4 spots in round 2 without really giving up anything. 

I assume it goes (Gurley and Kamara kept) : 1 - Bell 2- DJ 3- Elliott 4 - A. Brown 5 - Hopkins or a RB 6 (me) - Hopkins or whatever RB isn't taken at 5 (Barkley/Hunt/Gordon, etc.)  Oh and the guy with pick 12 will probably keep Fournette. 

Anyone drafted in the first two rounds of last year's draft tis ineligible to be kept. The only players right now that are consensus 1st round picks right now that are being kept are Kamara and Gurley. If I don't keep Zeke, my likely choices at 1.6 would be either ODB or Hopkins at WR or the...

Precisely. That's, I'm sure, why he chose not to sign. The counter argument is that they were going to pay him for at least 3 years at $15M annually, plus the signing bonus, so he was effectively guaranteed $55M over the next 3 seasons with the chance to hit free agency again with some at least...

Yes, but a $10M bonus over 5 years is $2M per. A $45M bonus is $9M per. In the former case, if they cut him after 3 years, they only eat $4M in cap space as dead money, which is nothing. They're paying Shazier more than double that this season to not play. If they fully guaranteed $45 in...