How do we replace Sean Taylor?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by irish

The NFL isnt giving the Skins or any other team extra picks because a player is killed or seriously injured (off the field) and can no longer play.

Might not be entirely true. The NFL awards compensation picks to teams who lose players to free agency. I'm not sure how a death like this works, he might be considered a lost player and we may receive comp picks. Or maybe it's handled entirely differently.

As for salary cap relief, we get none.

[SouperMeister]

The best you can do is move Landry to FS and hope to draft of develop someone to take over at SS. That will never hold the possibilities that Taylor at FS and Landry at SS did. Taylor and Landry might have become the best safety tandem ever, but now we'll never know.

[irish]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

Might not be entirely true. The NFL awards compensation picks to teams who lose players to free agency. I'm not sure how a death like this works, he might be considered a lost player and we may receive comp picks. Or maybe it's handled entirely differently.

As for salary cap relief, we get none.

I havent heard that the Broncos or NE got any extra picks for the players on those teams that died. I dont think we ever will. Free agency and off-field deaths are entirely different things.

I remember in the 80 when the Steelers drafted a guy named Gabe Rivera. He was their 1st round draft pick, played 1 (maybe 2) seasons and was awesome. They called him Senor Sack because he was sacking QBs left & right. He was paralyzed in a car crash and lost to the Steelers forever. The NFL gave them nothing in terms of draft picks.

Its just something the Skins will have to live with and make the best of.