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PFF liked it (they hated the Kinlaw signing).

Washington Commanders trade for T Laremy Tunsil
2024 PFF Grade: 76.5
2024 PFF WAR: 0.46
PFF Deal Grade: Elite
The biggest move of the opening day of free agency: the Commanders made a splash and landed the fourth-most valuable left tackle in football last season. Tunsil has earned a PFF pass-blocking grade above 85.0 in five of the past six seasons. Adding a franchise left tackle to block for quarterback Jayden Daniels is an elite move.

Here is what they said about Kinlaw.

DI Javon Kinlaw signs with Washington Commanders
2024 PFF Grade: 53.4
2024 PFF WAR: 0.11
Contract: 3 years, $45 million ($30 million guaranteed)
PFF Projected Contract: 2 years, $18 million ($10 million guaranteed)
PFF Deal Grade: Below Average
After four disappointing years with the 49ers, Kinlaw had the best season of his career with the Jets. The former first-round pick’s 68.2 PFF pass-rush grade was a top-30 mark in the league, and he posted a career-high 4.5 sacks. Still, this feels like an overpay by the Commanders, considering he’s now one of the 20 highest-paid defensive tackles despite never earning a 60.0 PFF grade in any of his five seasons.

Still need an edge rusher or this FA is a bust, imo (edit...unless they add Mooney Ward to the secondary).

The Evil Genius wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:36 pm

PFF liked it (they hated the Kinlaw signing).

Washington Commanders trade for T Laremy Tunsil
2024 PFF Grade: 76.5
2024 PFF WAR: 0.46
PFF Deal Grade: Elite
The biggest move of the opening day of free agency: the Commanders made a splash and landed the fourth-most valuable left tackle in football last season. Tunsil has earned a PFF pass-blocking grade above 85.0 in five of the past six seasons. Adding a franchise left tackle to block for quarterback Jayden Daniels is an elite move.

Here is what they said about Kinlaw.

DI Javon Kinlaw signs with Washington Commanders
2024 PFF Grade: 53.4
2024 PFF WAR: 0.11
Contract: 3 years, $45 million ($30 million guaranteed)
PFF Projected Contract: 2 years, $18 million ($10 million guaranteed)
PFF Deal Grade: Below Average
After four disappointing years with the 49ers, Kinlaw had the best season of his career with the Jets. The former first-round pick’s 68.2 PFF pass-rush grade was a top-30 mark in the league, and he posted a career-high 4.5 sacks. Still, this feels like an overpay by the Commanders, considering he’s now one of the 20 highest-paid defensive tackles despite never earning a 60.0 PFF grade in any of his five seasons.

Still need an edge rusher or this FA is a bust, imo (edit...unless they add Mooney Ward to the secondary).

Not so, Should be a very good edge at 29. I much more would like a CB and there are quite a few out there. Ward, Douglas, Murphy- also good trade back possibilities

Anyone have an estimate on the cap number at this point. I think we started at $75Mish… I’d think Ertz and Bobby eat 12M after signing bonuses… Kinlaw maybe 8M cap hit??? Tunsil somewhere around 20M… so what, maybe we’ve spent $40.

Am I crazy ? 5M for draft picks? 6-8M reserved for in season moves… so we have maybe $25M left to sign 40 players…

Base Salary Cap: $279,200,000
Team Cap
Space Effective Cap
Space # Active
Cap Spending Dead
Money

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space





Patriots
$121,804,394 $113,995,384 64 $178,344,870 $13,906,045
Chargers
$93,817,048 $86,418,262 46 $174,689,625 $15,587,221
Cardinals
$77,156,763 $73,630,736 65 $206,020,428 $7,399,996
Seahawks
$67,393,705 $63,318,832 57 $153,161,110 $67,066,247
Steelers
$65,346,766 $62,730,769 58 $217,106,030 $3,578,669
Jaguars
$60,977,034 $53,346,917 56 $187,719,701 $46,393,468
Titans
$59,995,716 $51,655,738 53 $209,276,236 $24,651,924
Vikings
$58,493,043 $56,174,688 54 $215,915,370 $10,727,822
Cowboys
$52,750,897 $48,564,637 60 $224,725,489 $20,725,931
Lions
$52,614,767 $49,954,151 56 $231,515,064 $18,802,932
Commanders
$49,674,462 $47,347,511 53 $234,240,652 $14,127,733

Take Mooney Ward off the board. He went to the Colts. Sigh.

Daron Payne IDL $26,170,000 $25,800,000 $370,000 $12,536,667 cut icon restructure icon
Terry McLaurin WR $25,250,000 $11,200,000 $14,050,000 $8,815,000 cut icon restructure icon
Jonathan Allen IDL $22,470,588 $6,000,000 $16,470,588 $0 cut icon restructure icon
Laremy Tunsil OT $21,300,000 $10,000,000 $11,300,000 $15,037,500 cut icon restructure icon

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/nfl- ... cy-manager

Payne is an interesting restructure option. I’m wondering if they rather just pay him and cut him next year if he doesn’t live up to his contract… but $26M is a lot for Payne considering he’s just ok… played like a lion his contract year, land ever since…

Our offense is going to be unstoppable next season. WR and LT were the last two big puzzle pieces.

Lovemaskins wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:15 pm

Payne is an interesting restructure option. I’m wondering if they rather just pay him and cut him next year if he doesn’t live up to his contract… but $26M is a lot for Payne considering he’s just ok… played like a lion his contract year, land ever since…

Eh, I think that ship has sailed Payne has never lived up to his contract. But he's also not good enough to trade and we'd take a big dead cap hit if we tried. They'll cut him after this season I'm guessing (unless he randomly balls out this year, which I doubt).

GoingCommando wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 6:20 pm

Our offense is going to be unstoppable next season. WR and LT were the last two big puzzle pieces.

I’m not sold on Brian Robinson. Also don’t see Deebo as a prototypical WR2. Still have work to do before I consider this a good FA period.