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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mradtke66" data-source="post: 1099145" data-attributes="member: 4199">The issue is he still has one year left on his deal. He doesn’t have to sign an extension at all. Extending him is an effort to keep cost down and maintain good will. We cannot eliminate the risk. We can only mitigate what we can. First, your contract is low to the point of insulting. 10m is guarantees ranks about 30th in the league right now (I say approximately because I have to count it off and when we get that far down, it tend to lose count.)We can chose to not extend him this pre season. If we do and he solidifies himself as the number 1 TE in the league, we’d wish he only wants 20m per year.  And there is the risk that he’s miffed and just refuses to re-sign with us. What then?As far as need, grouping him with WRs is a mistake. His value is being a dual threat to block or go out in a pattern. He’s brings a threat that our WRs don’t yet offer with their YAC. And then Reed and Watson are on cheap contracts. Golden is on a rookie deal. And all 4 of them are probably your preferred starters. I still bet my nickel that the contract is either agreed to in principle pending passing a physical OR being healthy week 1.</blockquote>

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