OFFICAIL Bears 2024 Regular Season News & Schleisse - FTO Preferred - No ALTS! Derailing Is Discouraged!

rawdawg · Feb 8, 2023

I feel like an extension for Johnson is going to be tough. He's not a top 5 CB, but top 5 CBs get about 20M/year. There's a few guys a notch below in the 16.5M- 18M range. The tier below that is 13-15Mil per year.

I think Johnson belongs in that 3rd tier, but the rub is that he's 2 years younger than any other CB that's on a 2nd contract. And he'll be the youngest CB in next year's FA class, other than Jeffrey Okudah, who Johnson is clearly better than at this point. He'll also be one of the top 4 CBs (only Diggs, Terrell, and maybe Sneed are better).

So, I think the Bears would have to go to that 15M AAV range in order to get Johnson to sign this offseason. And that would be paying him more on projection that actual performance so far.

Hawkeye OG · Feb 8, 2023

Gustavus Adolphus said:
CC: @Hawkeye.

I told ppl it was dumb not to bring him back. And I got the usually shit - he sux, to expensive, yadda yadda. Shoukd have cut Whitehair and re-signed Daniels

Gustavus Adolphus · Feb 8, 2023

rawdawg said:
I feel like an extension for Johnson is going to be tough. He's not a top 5 CB, but top 5 CBs get about 20M/year. There's a few guys a notch below in the 16.5M- 18M range. The tier below that is 13-15Mil per year.

I think Johnson belongs in that 3rd tier, but the rub is that he's 2 years younger than any other CB that's on a 2nd contract. And he'll be the youngest CB in next year's FA class, other than Jeffrey Okudah, who Johnson is clearly better than at this point. He'll also be one of the top 4 CBs (only Diggs, Terrell, and maybe Sneed are better).

So, I think the Bears would have to go to that 15M AAV range in order to get Johnson to sign this offseason. And that would be paying him more on projection that actual performance so far.

I was told that there wasn't enough money to go around, so maybe Poles should give him 18M

Gustavus Adolphus · Feb 8, 2023

Hawkeye. said:
I told ppl it was dumb not to bring him back. And I got the usually shit - he sux, to expensive, yadda yadda. Shoukd have cut Whitehair and re-signed Daniels

I was with you, but ya know, you can't spend that much on a guard. It was either Daniels or Mustipher.

Hawkeye OG · Feb 8, 2023

Gustavus Adolphus said:
I was with you, but ya know, you can't spend that much on a guard. It was either Daniels or Mustipher.

Didn’t his contract with Pitt end up being very reasonable? Like 3/21M?

Diehardfan · Feb 8, 2023

He had a ton of potential which blossomed in Pitt.....it bothered me that they would let a guy that young and skilled walk. I mean he's still only 25.