Dunlap: Age is a minus. Contract is heavy and will impact us severely in 2021. Bad outlook
Watt: Age is minus. Injury history is minus. Contract heavy but no dead money. Basically a half year rental we'd have to cut.
Mercilus: Age is just ok, toward minus. Injury history ok. Contract is absolutely brutal -- fully guaranteed at 12M for 2020/21.
Kerrigan: Age is minus. Injury history is good. Contract is light and expires after this year. Durable, but not electric talent at this stage in career. Kind of like a KJ Wright of OLB/DE position. Good player, productive. Not splashy or dominant.
Quinnen Williams: Age (22) is absolute plus. Contract is good but fully guaranteed. Doesn't address edge need. Cost would high in draft picks. Good player who hasn't yet dominated at DT in a way a #3 pick would be expected to. But definitely flashes impact ability. If 2021 and 2022 2nd round picks seal the deal, I think I pull the trigger and just patch up/band aid from reject pile on the edge.
McKinley: Age plus. Contract good but expires end of year like Kerrigan. Very underwhelming player who hasn't played with any impact since 2018. Not thinking that getting a downward trending player from a defense worse than ours is the way to go.
Fletcher Cox: Age is ok (30). Contract is very heavy and long. Would be paid more than Wagner and would likely require we move on from Jamal Adams to carry it.
Looking at the standings and teams that are moving on to 2021 (2021 cap hell in red):
Minnesota
Detroit
Atlanta
Washington
NY (both)
Chargers
Bengals
Texans
The pool of teams needing to deal is kind of low. Ngakoue was a steal for Baltimore. Atlanta and Texas don't have real good options to cull. The Bengals just don't trade their players they love them too much. Hard to tell with the NFC East. They all suck and are all in it. Dallas probably looks like they won't be dealing as they should expect to compete strongly in their division next year pending Dak's situation.
