His cap hit in 2024 is a shade under 52 million. You're looking at his base salary. Carr's cap hit next year is 35.5. Kyler's is almost 17 million more. There's bonuses etc tied into all of this, but Carr's hit to the overall team salary for the year is significantly less. Beyond that it rivals Carr a lot more, but the dead cap is vastly different too. The Saints have way more ability to play around with Carr's contract too, his 2027 cap hit is like 7 million, so if Carr has a decent few years, they can push stuff around (back) way more than anyone taking on Kyler's deal (2027 cap hit of 43.5).ericanadian wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:02 pm Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but why is Kyler’s contract prohibitive? $37M in 2024 would be peak for the receiving team. That’s Derek Carr money. Not sure how much sense it makes for the Cards to do this as they’ll have to eat the signing bonus and that would make 2024 a challenge even if you are resetting. It’s somewhat assumed you’d want to bring in some guys to help your new QB and trading Kyler before June 1st is adding like $30M.
I do agree with Mild, in that IF you think Kyler will be a top 10 QB for say, the next 4 years, this deal is not bad at all, it's just a big leap of faith considering Kyler's current status, and the red flags that are there with him (injury/attitude). If someone sees past that, they will indeed be willing to take that on, but I don't think anybody will pay significant draft capital, knowing the Cards situation, that they need to move Kyler if they want Caleb, so it's a buyers market, not a sellers.
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