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Looks like they signed Justin Jones, DT from LAC. Interesting that we got Evans and Blasingame from the same backfield.

Knee, and he will miss half the season at best.

I see these guys as Byrd and Goodwin with more upside. Neither were getting a lot of reps on those depth charts, and both come from orgs we are familiar with (Poles and Getsy). I wouldn't be surprised if we finished the trifecta and signed Pascal from Indy (Flus), but would not mind someone like JuJu.

I assume St. Brown and Pringle replace Byrd and Goodwin, and I am good with that.

Packers Twitter is in ruins, I love it. AND just as some of us expected:

Yeah, I can't imagine it is over the vet minimum as he only was on a one year $850K deal with the Packers and had 9 receptions last year. We will see if Getsy can get something out of him. He could help the WR room with the new scheme though.

Makes trading either of them a little bit easier if you wanted to going forward.

That was the last big contract he will see. 28 is the prime time for a big deal. So if he is just ring chasing, cool beans. Otherwise, he took several mil less per year and could even be a cap casualty as early as next year.

Maybe big Nickel? Yeah, I am still not worried, there are still a lot of guys left in FA and still more to be cut.

A-Rob to Rams. $15.5M AAV, gets Robby Anderson money and goes to a team where he will at best be WR3. Good luck getting targets with Kupp, Woods, Jefferson, and Higbee there. There is talk about bringing Beckham back.

Yeah, for some of these guys, probably doesn't want to move his family. Unfortunately the closest team distance-wise. btw, he is their first FA pickup this offseason. They lost 15+ players (some they may be able to re-sign), just restructured to get under the cap, still need $8M more for their rookie pool, so yeah.

In other words, still a lot of work to be done.

I am thinking Billy Turner (GB) at OT (he is an SFA), someone like Terrell Edmunds (S - PIT), JuJu or Pascal and Tate or Pringle at WR. Seals-Jones, Hurst or Firkser at TE. Moreau or Nelson at CB, Hitchens at LB. Not sexy but from what they would be replacing from last year, all would be upgrades. Then what about some retreads like Nick Williams at DT and Kwit back at LB? They should be some cheap options. Kwit as the Sam?

Depending on how things are viewed, from the starters and key rotational guys from last year, I think this is where we are at right now, based on filling holes by snap counts (top 20): Daniels > Patrick Peters > Jenkins Ogletree > Morrow Nichols > Jones Gipson > NEED SS Byrd > Pringle Robinson > NEED WR1 DHC > NEED S Ifedi > Borom Dalton > Foles Bush > NEED S/DB Goodwin > St. Brown Goldman > Tonga Mack > Gipson Hicks > Need DT Burns > NEED CB James > NEED TE3 Graham > NEED TE2 Grant > Evans? O'Donnell > Winslow? The Bears also switched from a Base 3-4 to 4-3, so there is probably a need for another LB to fill out the core holes. WR x1 S x3 (1x2) CB x1 TE x2 (1x1) LB x1 (due to base change) Then we would probably want upgrades at OT, OC/G, and NT. So that gets us back to the need for 2x WR, S, CB, TE, and LB, with upgrades potentially at OT, OG (if Patrick is OC), and NT. We need at least 2x FA WRs (WR1/2 and WR2/3), 2x FA Ss (S2 and S3), and at least one CB2/3, TE2, LB2.

Yep was in two threads at once, you are correct. I meant that Goldman was someone another team can sign and it won't count against the formula. I guess you can add Graham to that list that count towards comp picks.

So Street/Other Free Agents are players that were cut before their contracts ended. Any players signed from this pool do not count against you towards comp picks. Goldman, Cohen, and Trevathan our the Bears SFAs. If another team signs them, we will not get any comp picks for them. Here are some names to consider: Landry, WR, CLE Williams, RT BUF Flowers, LG WAS Tretter, C CLE Turner, RT GB Saffold, LG TEN Jarwin, TE, DAL Hitchens, LB KC Ioannidis, DL WAS Fox, IDL CAR Mitchell, CB HOU Young, CB BAL Bouye, CB CAR Pierce, DL, MIN Kwiatkoski, LB LVR

I don't like him either. Feels very one-dimensional. I would rather have someone like Zach Pascal who is a great blocker as well (Flus connection). Then draft one with the first two picks as your WR1.

Roster construction is super challenging because there are no guarantees in the draft that a player is going to be there when you pick. I would say if the player you have on the board is there at your pick and there are no other players rated the same, you pick that player. If you have multiple players with the same grade when you pick, that's when you try to move back as you assume you can still get one of those graded players at a later slot.

Buckner vs Ogunjobi Snaps 844 v 724 Hurry 8 v 9 KD 11 v 7 Sacks 7 v 7 Pressures 27 v 24 TFL 10 v 12 Tackles 68 v 48 Ogunjobi pretty much matched Buckner's output in 2021 with 120 fewer snaps. On a per snap basis, the only category Buckner has the lead in is total tackles.

Nah, letting the market cool off. There are still a lot of players left. Poles said he was going after Wave 2 and 3. Teams are releasing a lot of players as well.

A ton of cuts coming in. Those guys would not count against the comp pick formula. I can see Poles targeting those guys. Some big names.

Teams have now signed Daniels, Nichols, and Grant, but Ogunjobi negates the Daniels one. Still have ARob, Hicks, Goldman, Dalton to sign elsewhere.

Another name to watch is Billy Turner, who was cut by the Packers and wouldn't count against comp pick formula.

Lucas Patrick had more snaps than Glowinski and Karras at cost half the price of Daniels. He played with Getsy, so he can immediately come in and assist the rest of the line on the protections and calls.

Nichols signs for $5.5 AAV. Terrible deal for him, great for the Raiders. This basically ends up as a one year deal worth $9M.