Tracking our spending for 2012

So with our ~30M avail, if we tag Finny for 10mil (is what i've seen). But the franchise tag is the top-5 of each position averaged out... so I did some research. Top 5 CBs NA 11M, Samuel 9.4M, Bailey 7.5M, Gamble 6.7M, and Woodson 6.5M all averaged out is 8.22M?

I feel like we should be able to sign Finny for a 4yr/28M deal, making him a Top 5 paid CB... then give him something like a 5M signing bonus, so his per year cap hit is under 6M.

Then we could still sign Mario for ~14Mish, that leaves 10M for rookies. & also have to include the players we already resigned (which I think is >3M). Leaving us a couple million to attempt to sign players like Babineaux, Ball, and maybe Jones for cheap.

If we could keep Finnegan, Ball, Babineaux, and add Mario.. our draft would NEED to have a center and another DT, as well as a safety. It would be very hard to sign Finny & Mario and being able to fill all our other needs.

 

The tag number is no longer computed as the average of the top five at each position group. It's now computed as a percentage of the salary cap and the $10M you've seen is actually pretty close.

The number for CBs is projected to be $10.4 to 10.8M per http://www.footballoutsiders.com/under-cap/2012/under-cap-2012-tag-projections-2
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This is my post. I know a few things that aren't in that, including future year details, but most of the numbers on there should be pretty accurate. The bottom-line number I think should be fairly close to right, given I backed into it from reported cap totals. If you have questions about individual numbers, I'm happy to talk about them.

Given that the 2012 final cap number has not been finalized yet and compensatory picks have not been awarded, I can't say for sure what the Titans rookie draft pool will be. Based on where the 20th pick in each round fell last year, I'm expecting it to be $4.3-4.6 million.

 

Thanks guys, musta missed that change.

 

How do you figure?

We lost Kerry Collins, Vince Young, Bo Scaife, Jason Babin, Stephen Tulloch, and Rod Hood. Are only note worthy signs were Matt Hasselbeck, Jordan Babineaux, Shaun Smith, and Barrett Ruud. I'd still assume we'll get a 4th atleast.

 

Babin signed a $28 million deal with Philly. And doesn't production on the field count for something in the past season? I mean he was the leading sacker in the NFL.

 

No, the Titans aren't getting any compensatory picks, but compensatory picks will change precisely where the 20th pick in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th rounds is, which changes the exact allocation amount related to the Titans pick. Then again, whether the 20th pick in the 7th round is 221 or 225 (it was 223 last year) is more or less a rounding error.