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Top Free agent signings, trades, and mocks? Oh my.
The pre-draft crapola is here and the free agency silly season has begun. The latest is the Cooper Kupp and Myles Garrett potential trades. Kupp seems like he is definitely being traded. Garrett wants to play for a contender which will NOT be the Vikings next year with JJ McCarthy starting. Go ahead and bookmark this because I would love to be wrong. I just have not had any purple drank yet. Also, and more importantly, the Browns would have to eat an additional 16.5M in dead money cap space to trade him before June 1st. I do not believe you can do a trade before June 1 and designate it as post June 1. I do believe you can do that with cuts. After June 1, they would save 5M in cap space, eat 14.7M in dead money for 2025, and 21.4M in dead money for 2026.
Deshaun Watson did redo his deal to lower that 73M cap hit but it is not showing up on overthecap yet.
Watson has two years remaining on the five-year, fully guaranteed $230 million deal that he signed upon being traded to Cleveland before the 2022 season. The Browns owe Watson $46 million in each of the next two seasons, and he has a cap hit of $72.9 million in 2025 and 2026 — both the second highest in the NFL.
The reworked contract adds two void years to the deal, allowing the Browns to push out his dead salary cap into 2030, sources said. Watson’s contract contained two void years (2027-28) before the restructure. Now, it has four. He’s still under contract for the next two years and set to be a free agent in 2027.
They are sitting at negative 30M in cap space now which is obviously not up to date yet. I like to play around with the Vikings salary cap space and even I cannot figure out how they could trade Garrett but I am sure they will come up with something.
I would not want the Vikings to go after either one. I think Nailor is ascending. The Vikings need to spend and trade ONLY for offensive and defensive linemen, cornerbacks, and a safety.
It is fun to dream though.
Kevin O’Connell should pursue major upgrade familiar in nature to help J.J. McCarthy thrive in 2022
The 2021 season was special for the Rams because of the emergence of both Stafford and Cooper Kupp. They had a magical connection in their first year that vaulted Cooper Kupp to winning Offensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, while also winning the receiving triple crown.
On Monday night, Kupp sent out a tweet saying that the Rams are looking to trade him.
*The Rams are in an interesting spot. They are halfway between winning now and rebuilding. Kupp is currently one of their biggest contracts on the books with...
