DE Antonio Smith Signed, 5 yrs $12.5 Million Guaranteed

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Originally Posted by WMH

Call me clueless....BUT....is $12.5MM guarranteed really all that out of whack? Comparing to some of the other contracts that are getting thrown around right now, I had guessed that it would come in somewhere in the $15MM range in order to land him....

IMO, this doesn't seem all that bad, gives us an LDE to be a more productive option than Weaver, and gives us alot more options come April.

I am very optimistic about this signing. Supposedly he can move inside on passing downs. If he does that, we don't even need to THINK about a tackle with our first day picks. Or a DE. And because we resigned Wilson, we don't need a first day pick there either.

As a result, we now have more freedom to go with BPA in the draft, whether we move down or not.