No Center? Available Options or is Cody really the plan?

[Nelly]

Unless you can improve on him for $4.8m, you only lose by cutting him

...and they're not going to cut a lockerroom leader at this point. Whitehair is the favorite to start at center and has about a 99.9% chance of being better than what we had last year. I'll take it. As Poles said, you can't upgrade every position in a big way every single year.

We upgraded at every single position on the line really (except for maybe RG).

LT: 2nd year Brax > Rookie Brax
LG: Jenkins > Whitehair
C: Whitehair > Mustipher
RG: Davis ~ Jenkins
RT: Wright > Reiff/Borom/Leatherwood

 

[Bearly]

...and they're not going to cut a lockerroom leader at this point. Whitehair is the favorite to start at center and has about a 99.9% chance of being better than what we had last year. I'll take it. As Poles said, you can't upgrade every position in a big way every single year.

We upgraded at every single position on the line really (except for maybe RG).

LT: 2nd year Brax > Rookie Brax
LG: Jenkins > Whitehair
C: Whitehair > Mustipher
RG: Davis ~ Jenkins
RT: Wright > Reiff/Borom/Leatherwood

I'd could argue about RG but close enough.

 

[Nelly]

I'd could argue about RG but close enough.

While both are healthy, yea. Jenkins has had injury issues that Davis hasn't, so that's worth something.

 

[Myk]

If you cut Whitehair, you do that after June 1st, because cap savings are substantially more at that time

That's why drafting a center would've been a good idea. You go into the season with him starting. No need to cut him, in fact you wouldn't want to cut him.

 

[Starion]

FWIW, cutting Cody post June 1st will be a net savings of what, under $5mil right? Good amount of dead cap they'd still eat, but $5 mil is $5 mil IF they don't need him. Seems like they very much do, as of now. Could change by Aug. who knows ?‍

 

[ursamajor]

Honestly he seems too small.

Same height, and heavier than Olin was

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

Same height, and heavier than Olin was

Olin was considered small as well. But he was able to compensate for his lack of height and ball out. But he's a rarity.

Not saying the new guy can't be good - but I tend to lean on the side of the trend vs the exception, until a player shows me they deserve to be considered an exception...

 

[Aquineas]

Olin was considered small as well. But he was able to compensate for his lack of height and ball out. But he's a rarity.

Not saying the new guy can't be good - but I tend to lean on the side of the trend vs the exception, until a player shows me they deserve to be considered an exception...

Most of the time. Guys like Dana Stubblefield used to give him a hard time though.

 

[ursamajor]

Olin was considered small as well. But he was able to compensate for his lack of height and ball out. But he's a rarity.

Not saying the new guy can't be good - but I tend to lean on the side of the trend vs the exception, until a player shows me they deserve to be considered an exception...

He is listed at 300. Not huge, but not undersized

 

[Mighty Joe Young]

He is listed at 300. Not huge, but not undersized

Ok - I honestly

He is listed at 300. Not huge, but not undersized

Yeah, I just looked - 6ft 2 and 300 lbs. Why were people saying he was undersized then when the Bears drafted him? He was a late round pick and admittedly, I didn't pay much attention because Patrick was supposed to open up as our center (before he got hurt).

6ft 2 is a little short but not egregiously so.