Heading into this offseason many of the media and the followers believed that Christian Wilkins had in all probability performed his final recreation in a Miami jersey. With Wilkins being a pending free agent and the Miami Dolphins in cap hell for 2024 it appeared like a distant probability that they might afford him. There was additionally and nonetheless is theory that they might franchise-tag him. Making use of the franchise tag to Wilkins permits the group to maintain him on the franchise tag worth (22.1M), for 2024, assuming he sings it. Greater than 20 million might be greater than they want to be on the hook for this season with the cap points. It does give them the time to proceed negotiating with him on a longer-term deal to maintain this season’s cap hit manageable or commerce him if push involves shove.
Yesterday the story took one other flip with the Dolphins’ basic supervisor stating that the group would each prefer to hold Wilkins and that he could be speaking to his agent by the top of the week. Whereas Wilkins might be not thought-about on the very high of his place he’s nonetheless very close to the highest. This had led the media to take a position that he would obtain a “market setting deal”, in free company making him on the very high salary-wise. The group had tried, over the last offseason and even through the season to get one thing finished however the two sides simply by no means received shut sufficient so it simply received kicked down the street and right here we’re.
So assuming that the Dolphins can signal Wikins to a long-term deal there may be zero doubt that he’ll then be one of many very highest-paid gamers on the group. However at what value? The group is in a pinch money-wise as it’s and has an extended listing of different free brokers this yr after which once more subsequent yr that they will wish to hold which are additionally going to demand some giant paydays.
So tonight’s query of the day is what’s Wilkin’s worth in YOUR opinion? If you’re Grier do you simply say, “Okay, this is more cash than another DT makes as a result of we wish you right here!”, or do you inform him, “Look, if you wish to proceed to win we have now to maintain a few of this different expertise and we want you to be a group man!”, or perhaps you’re taking a wholly completely different method. Both means inform us what his worth is to you and the way the group ought to see it. What sort of a deal would you prefer to see the 2 sides come to that you simply suppose could be truthful to either side? OR, perhaps you suppose they might be higher off signing him to the tag, assuming he would signal it, thus not placing additional pressure on their cap numbers and buying both different expertise or picks so as to add youthful, cheaper expertise?
Please give us your solutions and ideas on the Wilkins deal and what, for those who had been the GM, you’d be keen to do to maintain him within the feedback part below-
