Trading Bak after June 1st clears $14M in cap space for 2022.
It doesn’t help with the 2022 draft, but might looking towards 2023.
He’s already on the wrong side of 30 and coming off a serious injury (albeit his first major injury).
I think his future gets discussed inside 1265 this off season.
Have to wait and see where it goes.
Personally, I favor keeping Turner and moving Bak. Turners cap charge is much lower than Bak’s.
But then drafting an OT on Day 1 or early Day 2 pretty much becomes a necessity.
The other iron in the fire here is Yosh Nijman. He hasn’t been perfect, but he hasn’t been awful either. Keeping him while a draft pick develops may make trading Bak a workable situation.
Thanks for clarifying the dollars on a BahkT trade. I new it had to be a late trade because there is no CAP savings to doing it before or around the draft.
My concern with trading BahkT is getting value. Given that he hasn't even practiced the last couple of weeks, I don't think we see him right after the bye. He might only play 3-4 regular season games and the playoffs. If he looks really good and ready to resume his all-pro type career in those games then a trade makes a ton of sense. If he doesn't play that much and doesn't look 100% then it may be that teams don't want to give you much for him. In that case I'm inclined to roll the dice and hope he shows up in 2022 and maybe I get a little better value trading him after next season.
If you have to have the CAP room to do other things then yes, they should make the deal. The thing is, since an older OT likely won't draw a high pick I'm inclined to let it play out.