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I think James Cook was $11.5 million per season.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I think that's around the neighborhood you're probably talking about.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
with both these guys, Kenneth Walker, the Seahawks, and Brees Hall of the Jets.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
So these teams could say, yeah, let's sign up for one year, $11.7 million guaranteed.
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If they get a great offer out there from another team, we can say, all right, wasn't meant to be, but we can sort of see exactly what the market might dictate.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
And if they don't get any offer like that, now one year, $11.7 million might be a good option for us.
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So how do you size these two guys up, Deontay, Kenneth Walker, and Brees Hall?
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
You're like, oh man, this guy's 26 already.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I find myself doing that with guys.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I'm like, he's going to be 29 this season.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
And it's like, wait a minute.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I don't remember people being worried about a guy being 29, five, 10 years ago.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I had them written down for Kenneth Walker.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I could kind of see that one, that they're looking.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I actually don't, I don't really have a sense of what the Steelers want to do or what they're going to do.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
You know, when you move on from Mike Tomlin and you hire Mike McCarthy and now it's like,
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I really have no idea, but I was like, I could just kind of see that.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
I woke up one day and it was like, the Steelers are signing Kenneth Walker to three years, $34 million, a three-year $34 million deal.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
And then everyone's saying, oh, he's got that Le'Veon Bell patient style and their offensive line could be pretty good next year.
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Free Agency Matchmaker: Finding Fits for Trey Hendrickson, Mike Evans, and Others!
So yeah, I actually had the Steelers written down for Kenneth Walker.