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Originally Posted by canthetuna
I think the issue is that he's 31, has an 8mil cap figure, and this is the 2nd time in 3 years he's been out for a long period of time. He's been very injury prone, even when he was playing. He's one of my fav. redskins, but I really hope he's at least one of the guys who will restructure to allow us more cap space.
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When it comes to Jansen, he'll definitely help us out with cap space in 2008. When the Skins just extended him last year, they put in a base salary of $5 million in 2008. They surely did this with the intention of giving that money to him in the form of a restructured signing bonus in March of 2008. He won't care whether he gets his $5 million in March or his $5 million in September - December (he'd probably rather have it in March), as long as he gets his $5 million.
But I wouldn't call him injury prone. Someone rolling on your ankle and twisting it halfway around isn't like getting a recurring soft-tissue injury such as Ken Griffey Jr.'s hamstrings. That's just an unfortunate accident and is equally likely to happen to any lineman in the league. The only other time the guy missed games was the blown achilles, another freak thing that can happen to anybody. Hell, he's such a rock in there that he played through two broken thumbs.
He can still run block with the best of them, he's a big upgrade over Heyer in that regard. His pass blocking is average, as he always struggles against the better pass rushers in the league and allows sacks to guys like Strahan on a regular basis. I think he's still a darn good RT in this league. Given that we're stuck with him from a cap perspective no matter what, you might as well continue giving him the chance to earn his starting RT spot.