[kccrow]

The more I look at Jacksonville's cap situation, the less and less I think a good player of value to the Chiefs will be on the market. They are only about $100k over the cap. Here's what I see:

Jacksonville tradeable/cuttable players to free up space.

QB (27) Blake Bortles 4.50 (16.50 dead)
73.5% plays, 12 g, 60.8% comp 2,611 yds, 13 td, 10 int, 54 car, 350 yds, 1 td
CB (27) A.J. Bouye 9.50 (6.00 dead)
87.4% plays, 13 g, 54 tkl, 1 int, 8 pd
DT (28) Malik Jackson 11.00 (4.00 dead)
63.5% plays, 15 g, 28 tkl, 2 sk, 10 QB hits, 6 tfl
DE (32) Calais Campbell 9.50 (5.00 Dead)
79.8% plays, 15 g, 65 tkl, 9 sk, 20 qb hits, 19 tfl
DT (28) Marcell Dareus 10.58 (0.00 dead)
54.9% plays, 14 g, 31 tkl, 1 sk, 2 qb hits, 2 tfl
S (28) Tashaun Gibson 7.45 (1.60 dead)
98.1% plays, 15 g, 53 tkl, 1 int, 7 pd
TE (26) Austin Seferian-Jenkins 4.75 (1.85 dead)
22.3% plays, 5 g, 11 rec, 90 yds, 1 td
RT (32) Jeremy Parnell 6.00 (0.00 dead)
87.5% plays, 13 g
OC (26) Brandon Linder 6.00 (0.00 dead) signed through 2022
51.2% plays, 9 g
RB (27) Carlos Hyde 4.75 (0.00 dead)
33.6% plays, 13 g, 162 car, 558 yds, 5 td, 8 rec, 27 yds
DT (27) Abry Jones 4.00 (0.00 dead)
47.4% plays, 14 g, 23 tkl, 1 sk, 2 qb hits, 5 tfl
OLB (28) Lerentee McCray 2.25 (0.62 dead)
9.8% plays (60.5% st), 12 g, 7 tkl, 1 sk, 2 qb hits, 1 tfl
S (29) Cody Davis 1.75 (0.87 dead)
3.2% plays (79.3% st), 15 g, 8 tkl


I look at this list and I think they do the following cuts:

RB Carlos Hyde - they really don't need him and he's mostly a backup runner. Even they Yeldon is a FA in 2019, they should retool the stable for less money behind Fournette.
TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins - Hasn't proven to be starting caliber and is always hurt. I think this one is a guarantee.
DT Marcell Dareus - They pretty much have to let one of their 3 high-priced lineman go. Abry Jones is much cheaper and just as effective and getting another NT on the cheap is easy. They drafted Taven Bryan in round 1 last year so Malik could be sent packing, but I don't see them giving up the player with more dead money.
That frees up 20.08m with 1.85 dead. That puts them approximately 19.98 under the cap, which is plenty of space to sign their draft class and sign a couple free agents.