HoosierCat

Ah, reminds me of the good ol days when FAs from far and wide would come to Cincy for their free meal with Mike at The Maisonette…

I’m just kind of curious if there’s a limit now…

Well, they don’t have as good excel spreadsheets as the bengals, I suppose….

Moss, Stone and Gesicki all officially signed, per the .com.

Yup, 2 years, $27 million per multiple reports. Jags giving Armstead 3 years, $51 million. Texans giving Mixon a 3 year extension, $27 million, 13 guaranteed.

According to a guy on a Lions forum (so take it with a grain of salt) it’s a 2 year deal for $27 million. Given that’s basically the same as Rankins, that suggests the team was not interested in signing him at that level.

Sucks but the writing was on the wall when they gave 26 to Rankins.

You have a talking box?

He’s here.

Hurst to SD.

Mixon trade update: compensation is pick 224 (the fourth pick in the seventh round) in this year’s draft.

He barely played the previous two years. Becton actually had a solid rookie campaign in 2020, but he only had 48 snaps the next year and missed all of 2022. So that he was bad on a bad offense after two years off doesn’t surprise me. If he can stay healthy I think he would be an upgrade, though that wouldn’t stop me from taking Latham or Fuaga at 18.

That’s been the theory. Hopefully it works out.

The Mixon trade is the only move I hate. Everything else so far is fine.

True but it’s a pretty deep DT class this year. They should be able to find a good run stuffing prospect in rounds 2 or 3. I hate losing Reader too but that $26 million number says to me that he isn’t coming back.

2 years, $26 million, per Garafolo, for Rankins. A bit steep but that’s FA for you.

Rankins would be a welcome addition. Almost certainly means Reader is gone.

That said, Ridley gets paid. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39725390/titans-snag-wr-calvin-ridley-4-year-92m-deal If I’m the bengals I text Mulugheta and tell him we’ll do that for Tee.

I think the WR market has some of the same issues as the OT market, in that there are 5-6 guys who could go in the first, so there’s not a lot of action yet. I wouldn’t rule out a Boyd (or Jonah) return just yet.

Raiders releasing WR Hunter Renfrow. He would be an interesting option if Boyd indeed doesn’t return.

SD news: Mack restructuring, WR Mike Williams getting released.

Cutting Scott frees up $2.3 million in cap space. Per spotrac, the Bengals currently have about $45 million in space, but that doesn’t include Sample, ADG and Traveyon yet. Figure those three take up about $5-6 million combined. So Bengals now have around $41 million.

This OTOH aggravates the hell out of me. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-texans-to-trade-maliek-collins-to-49ers 48 tackles and 5 sacks last year and he goes for a 7.