Current Redskins Salary Cap Status - 2008

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Bill B

Schneed - have you heard or anyone else on the board that the main reason the Skins have done all this restructuring is to mainly free up room to resign Jason Campbell to a long term deal? If Jason Campbell does really well next year he is going to command a big salary as the NFL always pays good qb's top dollar - and I don't think it would be the best thing in the world to let the contract run through and expire in 2009 and deal with the problem at that time because I think a lot of teams will be willing to throw a lot of money at a good qb and even give up 2 first rounders to do it. If you were the Skins would you go ahead and sign him long term now or do you wait to see how he pans out but run the risk of having to give even more money if he does really well?

While I haven't explicitly heard a rumor or read anything on the subject, it seems clear that given the Redskins' history of making nearly maximum use of the cap space available to them, that they'd consider extending somebody.

I think it's very clear at this point that the cap space was intentionally cleared to make room for a Chad Johnson to accomodate a big new contract. The Skins tried hard to get him, offering the 1st and conditional 3rd, and then according to Peter King attempting to contact the Bengals yet again on the Friday before the draft, but it didn't pan out.

So I don't think they purposely cleared the room in order to extend Campbell, or anyone else. But now that they cleared the space and didn't acquire the big name WR they wanted, it seems they're likely to make the best of it and make maximum use of their space. Jason Campbell would be the most logical guy to lock up for the long haul. You could make an argument for Anthony Montgomery as well. We'd certainly have the space to lock up Campbell now. That's what I'd do if I were the GM.