2013 Free Agents

[KI Skins Fan]

It's about time we fans become more realistic about the Redskins and Free Agency this time around. The $18M cap penalty that the Skins are facing this year is going to severely impact their ability to sign FA's, including their own. The Skins will not be able to significantly improve the team through FA this time around.

Some of our favorite players are not going to be re-signed. Lorenzo Alexander and the Skins may never reach a compromise on his compensation. Adam Carriker may be as good as gone. DeAngelo Hall may end up being cut rather than having his contract restructured, etc. The Redskins will probably lose some players that they would very much like to bring back.

We're out of the running for any big name FA's. We just can't afford them. Any time we sign a mid-tier FA, the salary cap may require us to part with another player we would have liked to keep. My assumption here is that any FA signing would address a position of greater need than that of the player who is cut.

At this point, we're going to need to strike gold on one or two mid-tier FA additions at key positions and have a very strong draft class to upgrade the overall talent level of the team.