Well hell. Sometimes I skim when I read. It is after all a RoD prerogative is it not.
I think Higs is a bottom third TE. I am in fact praying for a TE to be added. But if we move him our TE room looks so bad that I cannot imagine us doing so. Hopkins can't block for shit and his inability to dress even when the TE group had injuries is a bad look. Long might change that equation but I don't know enough about him to feel comfortable saying that. And even though it seems like we're going to address TE this year in the draft do you want teams to know you need to do that? Which will invite teams to jump in front of us at 36 for any of the guys they might covet?
So it just seems unlikely to me that we can afford to move Higs River. I won't cry or anything if they do. In fact I'll probably do backflips since it insinuates we're gonna get a TE in the draft. But it doesn't seem likely to me. I lump him in with Hav for that reason, that both are potential ways to increase cap but feel unlikely to me due to relative roster strength.
Also and btw if they add a S and LG in FA they could easily play cap games to manage this year's hit. So I'm not feeling the need to create cap space in conversation of looking at potential cheap additions.
The Rams currently have 44 signed roster players, we also have 11 draft picks and will probably gather another dozen UDFA's. We'll have 90 players in camp, our team needs a lot more than just a S and OL from free agency. We can still restructure Kupp, but if we don't add further funds, this next season is going to be a lot more dismal for even the most optimistic among us.
I'd rather expect the Rams to trade down our 2'nd round pick, so the last thing I'm concerned with at this point is other teams trying to guess what we'll do, this fan base of ours can't even come up with a consensus pick or position unit. jmo.
