Cap Implications of Josh Norman

[Schneed10]

Who is on the 2017 roster, and where are the holes?

Tight Ends:

TE 1
TE 2 Niles Paul
TE 3
TE 4

Players up for Free Agency: Jordan Reed, Vernon Davis, Logan Paulsen

Reed is a must keep. I'm actually going to assume he gets our franchise tag in 2017, since I think it's likely McCloughan will have consternation about giving a huge deal to a player with big injury history. But he's a stud and they won't want to lose him. I think that negotiation follows the Cousins pattern, prove it one more time.

Vernon Davis and Paulsen, I don't know, what would you do? Again depends on the 2016 draft. This time I'm going to assume they let Davis walk and keep Paulsen on a low salary deal.

Franchising Reed: ($10.0M)
Paulsen: ($1.0M)
Total Cap Hit: ($11.0M)