What position would you "stack" this year?

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Not too sure about that. Unless 2010 is uncapped, you can count on ARE on the roster in 2010 and maybe even 2011. According to the salary cap spreadsheet, the hit to cut him in 2010 is $10.8M, and in 2011 it's over $7M.

I've addressed this several times in other threads, but the cap information for ARE (and Carter) on this site is only accurate IF the skins pick up options to extend their contracts through something like 2014. ARE and Carter both restructured their contracts after this season in such a way that after 2009, the skins have to decide to keep them and pay through the nose for them for the rest of their careers... or cut them for negligible cap charges (under 4M if memory serves me) and the players become unrestricted free agents (in a potentially uncapped year.) JLC had the full contract details on his old blog back in March.

Needless to say, ARE is not #2 WR material and never played up to expectations on special teams. Unless he has some sort of amazing-breakout year in 2009, there is no way in hell we excercise the option to bring him back for 2010 and beyond at #2WR money.