If they mid tier the free agents minus CB why couldn't they? Plus the Steelers backload their contracts. And can still free up even more space if needed. By restructuring or cutting dead weight.
With cap wiggle room the tasks is less daunting than in times past.
Well tgere are three things
1. The costs of average starters are going to start jumping significantly this year… ufas will want to base their contracts off of the cap in two or 3 years, not this year, so the top end guys might be very expensive and tgat raises the middle guys too
2. There is a good logical reason not to blow next years cap space by pushing money back into it… it makes sense to grab some foundation pieces but not try to plug every hole until we see how some of the developmental guys have come along otherwise you risk needlessly handicapping yourself for a redundancy you didn’t need
3 they are going to have to extend Fitzpatrick and maybe DJ, so that changes how much you can push out into the future
A top cb is going to cost 15-20 million
A secondary good cb may cost 5-8
A strong safety that is better than edmunds wont come cheaper than five mil per, and miincahs extension is going to put him at 20 mil per overall
A really good offensive lineman isnt going to be found for less than a double digit salary
Same with a wr…
And cutting tuitt or shobert leaves them with a huge hole at an expensive position too…
That isn’t even touching the qb market
My guess is they will try to make a splash at Cb and get bottom tier bargains elsewhere…
