Perhaps the strangest thing to occur after the unexpected Za’Darius Smith farewell is nothing at all. The veteran edge rusher said goodbye and then … nothing happened.
Some believed a cut would occur prior to the third day of the new league year since that’s when a portion of his contract firmly hit Minnesota’s cap. Those assumptions proved misguided. Clearly, Kwesi Adofo-Mensah thought better of recouping cap space through a simple cut. If cap space is to arrive, then it’ll need to come through a trade.
Yes, the GM who covets value wants to have both draft capital and cap space.