![]() ![]() Also, even if Julio doesn’t provide top production on the field, he’s an unselfish player that will be a tremendous leader and example for the younger players on the team. We can run our passing game through Jones and ensure he gets enough targets every Sunday. But, even at 33 years old, it’s Julio Jones-one of the best receivers of all-time-we’re talking about. This salary goes against what I wrote above about not wanting to spend too much. 1 overall pick has shown that he can help a team get to the playoffs, and there’s no doubt he has a chip on his shoulder after the Browns wanted to move on (both in real life and in this theoretical expansion where they made him available). This wasn’t a slam-dunk selection because it is a costly cap hit, but it’s difficult to pass on Baker Mayfield as a solid option at quarterback for at least this season. I’ve always been a fan of Hicks’ all-around game, and he’s racked up over 116 tackles in each of the past three seasons (and a career-high 4.0 sacks in 2021). Coach Ryans can rely on Hicks to lead his defense this season. I knew ahead of this exercise that Jordan Hicks would be someone available in the expansion draft, but it didn’t register to me until now that he was nicknamed “Simba” during his time with the Eagles-and now he’ll be playing for the “Mufasa” to his Simba in former teammate and Atoms head coach DeMeco Ryans. These were the final selections after a cost-benefit analysis and taking many factors into account: And in the expansion draft, teams can pull a player when you select one from their team so in the case of a team like the Commanders, another player I select means they can pull Curtis Samuel, who is a good fit in their offense if he can stay healthy. For example, Bobby Wagner, Za’Darius Smith, Jarvis Landry, Kenny Golladay, Logan Ryan, Curtis Samuel, Anthony Hitchens, and some other players are simply at too high of a price for an expansion team. There were a bunch of players that I wanted to select that I ended up not going through with it-in most cases, it had to do with the cap hit. It was very difficult to narrow down my picks for the expansion draft this year. And if two players from one team are selected, all remaining players may be pulled.Īs the Albuquerque Atoms, we must either select a) at least 30 players, or b) any number of players that have a combined contract value of at least $71.5 million for the 2022 season. Once a player is selected from an existing team, one player may be removed from the list. Also, only one player with more than ten years of NFL experience and only one player that was placed on injured reserve during the season can be on each team’s list. However, they cannot be a kicker/punter, cannot be entering free agency after the season, and cannot have been placed on injured reserve during the summer. Each NFL team must list five players from their current roster that can be selected among the player pool. We are using the same rules used back in the 2002 expansion draft. I tried to predict strategy the 32 teams might use for example, making available a high-salary player or a veteran player they might feel the expansion team might shy away from. In many cases, determining the players that would be in this year’s player pool wasn’t too difficult-but there were several teams that would have had a hard time nominating their five players to be eligible for the expansion team to steal. Now, it’s time for the 2022 NFL expansion draft. Part I of the 2022 NFL Expansion Series was completed yesterday, with the creation of the Albuquerque Atoms. ![]()
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