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Front Office Football Eight
Hanalei Dragons Roster, Scout Overview
Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pyatt, Marlon 108 QB 3 24 50 ---
Weber, Buddy 105 QB 8 32 32 2 yrs.
Bowles, Francisco 106 QB 3 17 31 2 yrs.
Scott, Glenn 242 RB 2 46 57 3 yrs.
Curtis, Rufus 220 RB 3 48 48 2 yrs.
Bates, Archie 243 RB 3 47 47 ---
Glenn, Nathan 332 FB 3 59 64 2 yrs.
Rawson, Justics 449 TE 2 26 53 3 yrs.
Murray, Dustin 486 TE 5 44 44 ---
McWilliams, Michael 481 TE 3 44 44 2 yrs.
Ackerman, Isaiah 589 FL 6 51 51 1 yr.
West, Clarence 583 FL 2 30 43 3 yrs.
Jacobs, Lester 518 FL 3 26 42 ---
Blanchard, Cooper 524 FL 3 36 36 ---
Neumeyer, Darrell 513 SE 4 64 64 1 yr.
Boyd, Amos 510 SE 3 38 45 ---
Wuagneux, Aidan 658 C 4 69 69 1 yr.
Shepard, Douglas 769 LG 9 64 64 3 yrs.
Barker, Sam 766 LG 9 46 46 2 yrs.
Houston, Denzel 778 RG 3 19 49 ---
Ellison, George 860 LT 3 45 49 2 yrs.
Flowers, Sean 862 RT 4 81 81 3 yrs.
Girling, Keith 873 RT 3 31 47 ---
Hoyle, Kenneth 868 RT 2 24 42 1 yr.
Cavin, Pete 863 RT 6 32 32 1 yr.
Buchanan, Edwin 901 P 3 82 82 2 yrs.
Winters, Pat 1016K 3 62 62 ---
Boone, Salvador 1170LDE 4 76 76 2 yrs.
Carlisle, Ruben 1194LDE 3 28 44 ---
Schwartz, Donny 1190LDE 2 24 32 1 yr.
Blackledge, Arnie 1175RDE 6 78 78 3 yrs.
Rodgers, Edward 1197RDE 3 43 65 2 yrs.
Southern, Joe 1293LDT 3 28 51 ---
Guymon, Lionel 1252LDT 2 26 42 1 yr.
Wolcott, Jace 1271RDT 3 63 73 2 yrs.
Jacobs, Isaiah 1299RDT 2 59 61 3 yrs.
Meche, Rodney 1291RDT 5 46 46 ---
Ferguson, Heath 1355MLB 3 60 60 2 yrs.
Thomas, Seth 1495SLB 2 54 67 3 yrs.
Benson, Aidan 1454WLB 5 81 81 1 yr.
Henry, Devan 1459WLB 3 76 76 2 yrs.
McCormick, Rico 1492WLB 3 37 48 ---
Owens, Shane 1538LCB 3 55 55 2 yrs.
Branham, Chuck 1544LCB 4 38 38 1 yr.
Young, Donnie 1527RCB 2 51 63 3 yrs.
Roth, Richard 1533RCB 8 37 37 ---
Matthews, Ted 1637SS 3 66 70 2 yrs.
Murray, Louis 1628FS 3 33 54 2 yrs.
Sexton, Alec 1645FS 2 37 54 3 yrs.
Welch, Marc 1631FS 3 33 47 ---
Foudray, J.C. 1630FS 5 46 46 ---
Thornton, Elias 650 LS 9 19 19 ---
$$ - player is suspended, ## - player is inactive,
** = player is injured, %% - player is on IR.
Players Under Contract: 35
Inactive: 0
On Active Roster: 35
Salary Cap: $263,800,000
Cap Room: $145,870,000
Maximum for New Player: $136,400,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $270,000
Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $82,800,000
We're at 35 under contract with Benson franchised. We've got 7 draft picks coming. We've got minimal wiggle (~$4m) after the picks, but enough to get to a legal roster I think. Benson wants $27m/yr to extend, but we've got him for $17m under the tag this year. There's a path here where we just keep him and maybe slide out or back with the picks to give us just enough space to bring a few RFAs back with other filler.
WR Neumeyer wants basically $17m/yr. WR Ackerman wants closer to $12m/yr. Both basically require us to move on from Benson right now to have the space to do an extension this year. We can also ride it out and tag one of these guys next offseason.
We're picking 1.27, so that's a pretty enormous change. The picks we traded ended up being 1.20, 1.25, 2.20, and 2.25. I'd say that's as good as we could have hoped really.
We definitely have the depth at that LB spot to move on from Benson. I've been playing LBs Henry and Thomas in some situational DE pass rushing roles as well, but I don't think we're too exposed by losing Benson. I think I'm hesitating here only because it hurts to move on from the BIG BARS sexiness of having this guy on the field for us 1000 times a season.
Keeping him screws us from holding onto some pretty good guys we snagged who are RFAs now as well. So it's all around stupid. (I'll keep mulling it over.) I am very tempted to middle finger those receivers and find some way down a path of burning more high picks on defensive players. Linebacker U baby.