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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.

Scherff decimated the Guard market. These are all Guards ranked by AAV:

Chark gone, waiting on numbers. Lions were also looking at ARob. Chark gets 1 year for $10M. That helps the market a little bit. He does a prove it year deal but with the Lions and Goff? Seems risky.

Up to $17.5M AAV for Scherff. Ouch. The Jags are killing the market.

Kirk's deal really screwed a lot of teams. The Bears are probably better off going with a 2nd tier guy with upside: Auden Tate, Russell Gage, Pascal, Raymond, Higgins. Beckham, Landry, Chark, ARob are all getting $15M + now.

I see some people on social media talking about overpaying. Ogunjobi now has the 13th highest AAV for an IDL, however, he is only making 250K more than DJ Reader and 500K more than Javon Hargrave. So to me, this is very much inside the market value and not an overpay with a ton of years. This is a 3 year deal, but will probably have an easy out after year 2.

Yep, I was going off the OTC list, then removing names that have signed. A few slipped thru the cracks.

LB: Kyzir White, LAC; Jermaine Carter Jr, CAR; Damien Wilson, JAX; Anthony Walker Jr, CLE; Kwon Alexander, NO; Kamu Grugier-Hill, HOU; Leighton Vander Esch, DAL; Anthony Hitchens, KC, Jordan Hicks, ARZ S: Terrell Edmunds, PIT; Bobby McCain, WAS; Marcus Williams, NO; Tyrann Mathieu, KC; Jayron Kearse, DAL; Damontae Kazee, DAL; Jordan Whitehead, TB; Justin Reid, HOU; Jaquiski Tartt, SF CB: Levi Wallace, BUF; Fabian Moreau, ATL; Steve Nelson, PHI; Darious Williams, LAR; Terrance Mitchell, HOU; Charvarius Ward, KC; Rasul Douglas, GB; Xavier Rhodes, IND, AJ Bouye, CAR; Kyle Fuller, DEN; Kevin King, GB; Darious Williams, LAR, Mike Hughes, KC

WR's available: Zach Pascal, Kalif Raymond, Allen Lazard, Odell Beckham, Adam Humphries, Russell Gage, Demarcus Robinson, Jamison Crowder, Byron Pringle, Jarvis Landry, Rashard Higgins, Will Fuller, DJ Chark, M Valdez-Scantling, Trequan Smith, JJ Schuster-Smith, Auden Tate

LT's available: Armstead, Brown, Fisher, Reiff, Solder RT's available: Brown, Turner, Moses, Quessenberry, Okorafor, Parker C's available: Bozeman, Price, Britt RG's available: Daniels, Brunskill, Corbett, Hernandez, Turner, Glowinski LG's available: Norwell, Spain, Patrick, Schofield

I love this signing. The key to the new defense is up the middle. The savings from Mack and Goldman easily cover this cap hit. Technically, the original cap space + Cohen's savings are still left.

Up the middle is the priority, now get a Center.

There is our 3T, had 7 sacks,16 QB Hits, and 12 TFLs for the Bengals last year.

Trubisky is a Steeler!

Bears "in the mix" for Christian Kirk (1147 AM).

Rumors are saying Armstead, we will see if they hold true (1140 AM).

Noteboom resigns with Rams. Landry released, now a FA. Bears are interested in Valdez-Scantling.

I would be down with Smith, Pickens, and Watson. That would be a nice haul for the first 3 picks. I think you may be able to trade back and still get those 3 with an extra 4th or 5th rounder.

Not official, but projected: https://overthecap.com/projecting-the-2022-compensatory-picks/

It's tough. O-Line has to be the priority, but for FA, I don't think we make a huge splash at WR this year. Slim pickings this year. After Adams, the next best WR available in terms of receptions is Kirk with 77. He put up 77-982 with 5 TDs. After him? Russell Gage with 66-770 and 4 TDs. That is very underwhelming for over $10M. I would say $10-12 AAV would be acceptable because of our need at WR. I am good with JuJu or Kirk, but the Bears can't afford to overpay. We are not in a win-now mode. I think Poles is going to go for culture guys this year. Set the tone for the organization. If JuJu blocks like he did on that one play where he leveled an LB, I am all in. Whoever we get needs an edge. We need to be hard to play against. Grab those guys.

JuJu for anything more than $8M would be an overpay at this point. He played at $8M and wasn't worth that. The market will dictate it I guess. Anything over $10M is a hard pass for me.

Yeah the way the mocks have been going for me, there is no WR worth the 39th pick. It has been CB, LB, and IDL there. Then WR at 48.