I'm fairly certain the dead cap money from ramming the entire signing bonus into this year's cap would create a worse situation cap-wise for Tunsil than keeping him on the roster. Someone correct me if that's not correct, but per spotrac he is $19.4 M against the cap on the roster and if you trade him or cut him, dead cap money is $25.9 M. Trading players when they've just signed a huge deal in the NFL doesn't make things better capwise because the full prorated remainer of their signing bonus is applied to that year's cap.
Can you imagine trading 2 first and a second for Tunsil and one being the number 3 overall pick. Then turning around two years later and trading him for nothing?
Yes it looks terrible but this would be the result of a new regime coming in and making logical moves.
Then trading a franchise QB for your own pick from that trade. smh. Very Texans Worthy ownage though. That said, I think there would be a market for one of the best tackles to a team that could afford him and has an extra first rounder to spare
The Bengals come to mind. 2022 1st and 2021 3rd for Tunsil would be good with me. Do everything to tank and plan for 2022 draft to reload the young talent.
I think Mercilus goes with Watson to help with the cap. I don’t think the Jets or any team will give up enough draft capital for a Watson/Tunsil combo.
If he can get back to 2018 and 2019 form when he was allowing a 68 rating to opposing qbs, this could be a steal. But even allowing a 105 rating like last year, he'd look like a shut down corner in comparison to murray and reeves =)
[The Athletic] Texans to sign Terrance Mitchell: where he fits and what’s next for Houston. Imagine hearing this toward the end of the Texans’ 4-12 regular season: When free agency arrives, Houston will sign a possible new starting quarterback before it adds better corners. It’s hard to remember now, when Tyrod Taylor’s signing is the latest development in Deshaun Watson’s standoff with the Texans, but a lack of cornerback depth once ranked among the team’s biggest issues. Watson drama dwarfs it now, but the problem remained at the start of the NFL’s legal tampering this week. Bradley Roby, whose 2020 season ended with a six-game suspension for using PEDs, was the Texans’ only starter-level corner. But on Tuesday night, Houston landed another. Cornerback Terrance Mitchell intends to sign a two-year, $7.5 million contract with the Texans, as NFL Network first reported. After becoming a full-time starter for the first time in 2020, the 28-year-old Mitchell was the 106th-ranked player on The Athletic’s updated free agency big board. How he fits: Mitchell struggled in man coverage, ranking 76th out of 106 corners in yards per snap allowed. But he’s a good tackler and can make plays on the ball, making him a fit for a zone-heavy scheme like new defensive coordinator Lovie Smith’s. Mitchell had 13 pass breakups last season, which tied for 14th. And he’s been more productive than that in the past. As an opportunistic rotational corner for the Chiefs in 2017, Mitchell had 18 pass breakups and four interceptions that season while playing only about two-thirds of Kansas City’s defensive snaps. 2021 impact: We’ll see who else Caserio adds at cornerback, but as things stand now, Mitchell should be a starting outside corner for the Texans. Behind him and Roby, Houston has Vernon Hargreaves, who was not a reliable starter on the outside last season, as well as John Reid, Keion Crossen, Cornell Armstrong and recent free agent pickup Tremon Smith. Those final four have collectively played 841 defensive snaps, which averages to about three full games each. Draft impact: The Texans need to keep improving their depth at this position, perhaps with another free agent signing and certainly through the draft. Given the increasing importance of stopping the pass in today’s games, it’s good practice to draft a corner every year. But the Texans currently aren’t set to pick until the third round. Even considering the Texans aren’t focused on winning in 2021, trying to rebuild this position solely through the draft this offseason would’ve been illogical, especially with the current pool of draft assets. Cap update: The Texans have signed 13 free agents and cut four low-profile players. They were up against the cap entering Tuesday, before the signings of Mitchell and Taylor. If Caserio needs to cut veterans or restructure their contracts for cap space, these players could be candidates: PLAYER POSITION YEARS ON CONTRACT DEAD MONEY CAP SAVINGS Brandon Dunn NT 1 $1M $3.15M Zach Fulton OG/C 1 $750K $3M Bryan Anger P 2 $833K $2M Darren Fells TE 1 $500K $2.3M Marcus Cannon OT 2 $0 $7M Caserio just traded for Cannon, a longtime Patriots right tackle, so his inclusion above is only as a candidate for a restructured deal. He has two years left on his contract, with cap hits of $7 million this season and $6.3 million in 2022. Outlook: Like all of Caserio’s signings so far, this is a short-term, low-risk contract. If Mitchell even plays like an average starter, the Texans will be getting good value out of this deal. It isn’t exciting, but Caserio is building with an eye toward next year, when he’ll be free of the worst contracts from the Bill O’Brien era and have his full slate of draft picks — not to mention any extras from a Watson trade.
Way better RB. And HOU would have been a better landing spot than a team equally bad but with a young stud RB.
