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The Panthers currently have 49.7 million in cap space. 

The rookie pool is projected to cost us 7.8 million.

This leaves 41.9 million to use in FA. 

Your first decision as GM is who to cut.  The following players have been mentioned as possible cuts to the roster and can increase our CAP for FA.

RB Jonathan Stewart      4.8
P Andy Lee                      3.4
K Graham Gano               3.1
DT Paul Soliai                  2.5
LT Micheal Oher               2.5
TE Ed Dickson                  2.3
QB Derek Anderson         1.7

FB Mike Tolbert                1.7

QB Joe Webb                   0.9


 

Your second decision will be resigning our current FAs. 

UFA        
    DT Kawaan Short      13.5
    DE Mario Addison        4.5
    DE Charles Johnson    3
    T Mike Remmers          3
    WR Ted Ginn Jr            3
    LB A.J. Klein                 1.5
    CB Teddy Williams        1.5
    FS Micheal Griffin         1.5
    G Chris Scottt               1.5
    DT Kyle Love                1.5
    C Ryan Wendell            0.5
    CB Leonard Johnson    0.5
    S Colin Jones                0.5
        
RFA    

    G Andrew Norwell         2.3
    RB Fozzy Whittaker      1.5
    DE Wes Horton             1.5
    WR Corey Brown          1.5
    WR Brenton Bersin       0.5
    CB Louis Young            0.5
        
EFRA    All will likely be resigned    
 

Here are your list of interesting FAs we may be looking at. 

Possible FA OTs    

    Andrew Whitworth
    Ricky Wagner
    Riley Reiff
    Sebastian Vollmer
    Matt Kalil
    Charles Leno
    Austin Pasztor
    Andre Smith

Possible FA DEs    

    Chander Jones
    Melvin Ingram
    Jason Pierre-Paul
    Jabaal Sheard
    Julius Peppers
    Karl Klug
    Devin Taylor
    Chris Long
    
Possible FA S    

    Eric Berry
    John Cyprien
    Tony Jefferson
    Barry Church
    T.J. McDonald
    Micah Hyde
    Jahleel Addae
    D.J. Swearinger
 

Who you bringing in, and how much are you paying?

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Stewart's savings would be his current scheduled hit of 8.250  - the 3.5 in dead money. Making the savings 4.75 million. 

I'd cut Ed Dickson and save the 2.1 million for cutting him.

I'd also cut Tolbert and save 1.5 Million there.

Before the draft I'm comfortable cutting Soliai, Tolbert, and Dickson.

That saves 6.1 million up front and would not incur dead money past this year.

Any other decisions on cuts namely Stewart, Gano, Oher and Lee would have to wait until free agency and the draft play out. 

I'd resign Short, Norwell. I'd make a strong attempt at Addison and offer Johnson another fair deal to come back for 1 more year. Ted Ginn would also be welcomed back. I'd even sign Philly back because he's restricted and likely easy to get back at a low number. I assume Klein may get starter money elsewhere. 

Free agency top targets if available would be

1. Chandler Jones (highly unlikely he's available)

2. Eric Berry 

3. Ricky Wagner

4.Melvin Ingram

5.Pierre Paul

6. Best available WR ( Garçon might be a good fit here)

Draft I'd be all over Fournette if available. If he's gone I'd take the best secondary player available as I don't think Barnette is a sure fire stud worth the 8th pick. If the scouts say I'm wrong, then sure let's do it. 

The next 3 picks inside the top 100 id look for players who could contribute immediately at any position. Even kicker if we can find one good enough to replace Gano in the 4th.

At the end of the day if we can get Wagner and an upgraded pass rusher, while resigning the guys mentioned above,plus a good fullback id consider the offseason a success. A new starting caliber WR would be icing on the cake.

Wagner would at least solidify RT for sure and between him, possibly healthy Oher and even Williams competing hopefully one could hold down LT for a least 1 year until we can address it in the future. 

Fournette speaks for himself. but if he's gone I'm ok with landing a top tier safey or even corner to go across Bradberry. Not counting Worley out but he's not good enough to pass on a stud. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cut: 

Gano +3.1

Soliai +2.5

Dickson +2.3

Tolbert +1.5

Cap at 51.3

 

UFA

Tag KK -13.5

Love -1.5

Scott -1.5

CJ  -3

RFA

Norwell 2.3

Philly 1.5

 

 

Remaining Cap 28

Pep -3   - if he doesnt retire he will come cheap to retire here.

Cordarelle Patterson -4

Amukamara -6.5

Swearinger -2.8  (identical to Colemans contract when we signed him)

Andre Smith -3.5 (same as Oher's coming in for a guy who has slumped lately)

Kalil -4

Munnerlyn -3

 

Leaves 1.2

Im sure we will do some restructering such as Stewart  that will open a additional 2+

 

 

 

 

Draft:

1st round  Leonard Fournette-

2nd  Trade down:  not sure with who yet but no one in particular here worth that high a 2nd.   We drop back to the end of the 3rd and pick up a additional 3rd and possible 2018 4th.

2nd Antonio Garcia-

3rd Jordan Leggett

3rd (via trade) Tanoh Kpassagnon

3rd comp  Daeshon Hall

4th KD Cannon

5th Xavier Woods.  

6th Jalen Reeves Maybin

7th Mack Hollins

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My Cuts:

Stew

Gano

Webb

Oher

 

Resignings:

CJ

Ted Ginn

Kyle Love

Andrew Norwell

 

Key Free Agents:

Eric Berry- 11 to 12 million

Riley Reiff- 13 million

Calais Campbell- 8-9 million

Matt Kalil- 4-5 million



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Just now, Matthias said:

I definitely wouldn't pay Reiff 13 million.  That would be around the highest in the league going into 2017.  Most likely Reiff will be offered a respectable deal by teams, if not a one year prove it.

   Good luck with that. The only at least average OT on the market who isn't in his mid-30s. No matter what you think he's worth, he's going to get more than 6M on a "prove it" deal. 

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4 minutes ago, Toomers said:

   Good luck with that. The only at least average OT on the market who isn't in his mid-30s. No matter what you think he's worth, he's going to get more than 6M on a "prove it" deal. 

It reminds me of Jared Veldheer back in 2014.  He signed about a 7 million dollar a year deal with the Cards, which isn't too much.  I guess with Reiff being a former first rounder, he could get about that or more, but I don't believe teams will break the bank for him.

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