Perhaps Russell but the coaching staff thinks highly off him so he’ll likely remain in a reserve role. Maybe Mike Wahle but he only saves a couple million on the cap at most. The rest of our team either doesn’t cost much or are deemed too important (Kerney, Peterson, Jones, Hasselbeck). Grant may be worth cutting because of his huge payday but then we have zero starting caliber safeties on the roster. However, perhaps some of these guys will restructure so we can have a bit more to spend.

And this is a common mistake. One more example.

Back in the 1700’s, it was popular for gentlemen to be disinterested, and actually, according to Gordon Wood, was a major goal of George Washington. I would gladly welcome an unbiased view on free agency.

Back to your point, I don’t think we’re uninterested in this years free agent crop, we just don’t have the cap space. Unless Leroy Hill gets a long term deal to defer some of his salary, or we somehow manage to trade down from the number 4 pick, it seems we’ll only have about $7 million to spend on a lot of open spaces. We won’t undergo a cost cutting spree that Tampa showed, but I’ll be interested to see if we cut someone of importance to this team.

should take most of our cap room, right? None of the other players we are likely to cut would save us a ton of money, and if I recall correctly Kerney would lose us money if we cut him. Barring an unexpected cut (Hasselbeck or Big Walt) I don’t see the team making a big splash in FA this year.

From what I understand the players that stand to give the most cap relief are guys like Hasselbeck, Walt, and Kerney. Cutting any of them doesn’t make a lot of sense at this point and with the rest of the guys the cap relief would be minimal.

So as not to tip his draft hand