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Who had Mike Williams in free agent bingo?
@evolz3737 he cooked our newly acquired cb last year badly. But yeah, I’m hoping second year after knee surgery gets us a serviceable version of MWill.
@evolz3737 I’m trying to decide if “better than nothing” was meant for sarcasm font. I mean, is he coming with replacement parts, or are those sold separately?
If QJ and BMW could play consistently at their best—and they’re both damn good at their best—this would be a top notch receiver room. But those two guys are so reliably inconsistent that it’s hard to get too excited.
@66_jimbo Hey, why not? The Stones are still touring. Maybe John Jefferson is available.
In these desperate times, I was hoping for something like this. Hope it’s a 1-year deal around $5-6 mill.
Interesting with the one year contracts to Mike and Najee. They’ll likely cancel out comp picks for 2026 but, if they have decent years and then move along, there’s a good chance they’ll count for comp picks in 2027. My guess is this isn’t news to Hortiz.
The one-year contracts certainly provide flexibility and, ultimately, loads of cap room in a variety of ways. Potential comp picks don’t hurt either.
I like the signing. Herbert knows how to send TDs to Mike and he is probably just as good as he ever was, which was pretty nice. He was also so cheap. I’ll bet they are staring down the numbers with Keenan and this was a move to emphasize their position. Keenan returning would make this group quite formidable.
I am reluctant to allow myself to believe we can count on Williams to return to his 2018-2023 performance levels and also stay on the field in 2025. I feel like that might be too good to be true.
Mike’s numbers 2018-2023 scale to 1027 receiving yards and 7 receiving TDs per 17 games, with 15.4 ypr. Imagine adding that to Ladd.
That said, he has chemistry with Herbert, and, as of right now, he is the best X WR on the team. If he takes a lot of X snaps, it means Johnston can play Z, which is a better fit for his game.
It is definitely a low risk, high upside signing. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
@tau837 I’m not overly excited about it but then I’ve never been very excited about MWill, from Clemson forward. But I can see the chemistry fit too so….ok.
@tau837 Agreed, but I would really like to supplement him with an X WR in the draft because there is almost zero chance MW plays 17 games and I don’t want to go fishing for one every year.
@evolz3737 It sets them up well going into the draft from the WR position. They have 6 on the roster now. If the right player gets to them, I’m sure they’d select that player and cut Reagor or Rice, but they won’t have to reach for a WR. The same is true at LB and the DB group.
Their weakest spots on the depth chart right now are clearly the DL (including Edge), IOL, and TE.
This only reinforces my comment yesterday that I expect to see a trench heavy draft and I’d be surprised if they don’t take a TE or RB at some point.
I’m not necessarily saying they’ll ignore the other position groups, but the needle is certainly pointing at trenches and luckily this year there are a decent number of DL and IOL prospects. I’m guessing they already have a cluster at those positions they’d be happy to draft.
Chargers just added DT D’Quan Hand on a cheap 1 year deal. He was a decent prospect coming out of Alabama. Drafted in 4th round by the Lions. Made an impact right away and was actually on the All-Rookie team his first season in 2018.
From 2019 – 2022 he bounced around and was plagued by injuries. Caught on with the Dolphins in 2023 and had two solid but unremarkable seasons with them.
I see him as a decent rotation piece, but not starting material. He’s not as talented of a player as Poona Ford and I wouldn’t expect that kind of impact. Poona was “cheap” last year for different reasons.
They still need to add at least 1 if not 2 players to the IDL group IMO.
Now the question becomes, do they add a TE and a G before the draft, and if so, who?
I suppose they could wait until later and look for post-draft signings, but that seems risky, ESPECIALLY at tight end.
@blue-beers I see he made $1 million on a 1-year deal last season and his PFF grades took a steep dive from 2023. Seems like a bit of an overpay for a 2nd stringer, but the team finds itself with few options I guess and a roster to fill.
it just occurred to me, this guy was on MIA when the team released Tart last training camp.
Hortiz goes dumpster diving again. Da’Shawn Hand signs for 1 year at $3.35 mill. Gotta hand it to Hortiz. He’s not going to f up his comp pick strategy.
@unclejammsarmy Until ASJ signs I think we only have one 5th rounder slated to come back to us next year, so its not exactly like he’s killing it with the comp picks either. I mean if he wants to go with all the one year deals again we’ve seen it work last year, but here are still flaws to it.
1. There’s no guarantee that they will all meet or exceed their contracts. There’s bound to be years where more of those signings turn out to be Dissly and Chark than Ford and Dobbins.
2. You create an endless cycle of needs. Even with 10 draft picks, you are lucky to get 7 to make the team and even luckier to get more than 2 starters. Definitely not enough to replenish starters you have going out on 1 year deals or even the longer tenured players that are expiring.
The roster is starting to look like that now. It is essentially worse than it was before the new league year and we had 90M in cap space. If there is a bigger 3-4 year plan to continue to sign 1 year deals until you can get most of those holes filled with eventual longer contract draftees, I guess that’s one way to go. However, you would need to nail a high percentage of draft picks as starters/ rotational players and even have more luck there are prospects at need positions available to you in the draft.
Example: TE this year. As it stands we have zero pass catching TE on the roster, and there’s no guarantee we can get one in the draft.
It will be fascinating to see how the rest of the offseason plays out. Still a ton of work to do to even get the roster as good as it was last season.
And now Naquan Jones signed, I think he kinda takes on Morgan Fox’s spot. Still room for a good rookie, but they have some depth now at least.
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