December 23, 2024

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After overcoming a formidable opponent in the previous campaign, the Buffalo Bills finished with five straight victories to secure a playoff spot and ultimately capture the AFC East with a victory against the Miami Dolphins in the season finale.

The Bills will have another problem this offseason as they try to escape a salary cap crisis, even though the task may not be quite as tough. The Bills won’t be making any big free agency acquisitions, general manager Brandon Beane has already stated. Instead, the team will make a number of more measured, lesser signings that were more calculated than they were during the previous offseason.

According to one source, the Bills will figure out a way to generate cap room, but they could have to cut ties with one of the offensive line’s key players to do it.

Edge rusher Von Miller and Stefon Diggs, two highly compensated but underperforming players, are almost locked in since it would cost a dead cap to trade or release them, according to Bleacher Report, which highlighted that the Bills have a lot of work ahead of them to get under the salary threshold for the 2023 season.

Center Mitch Morse, who inked a two-year, $19.5 million contract extension that keeps him in Buffalo through the 2024 campaign, was identified by the report as another player who would be a more sensible trade target.

According to the article, “Mitch Morse is still a solid center, but trading him would clear up $8.5 million and there are cheaper alternatives.”

Traded for a draft pick, Morse would have allowed the Bills to save cap space, but it would also open up a spot at one of the team’s most reliable positions. With the same group starting all 17 regular-season games and both playoff games, the Bills’ offensive line saw no serious injuries during the previous campaign.

According to Joe Buscaglia of The Athletic, the Bills may be able to rescue some salary space from Morse’s contract while keeping him with the team. Buscaglia pointed out that the Bills might add an empty year to Morse’s 2025 contract—a maneuver they haven’t taken often when trying to save salary space.

In addition to giving them a big boost to their cap space in 2024, the Morse amount added to 2025 wouldn’t be so large as to put them in a difficult situation, according to Buscaglia. Morse is still a top player, thus there might be an incentive to agree to a one-year contract extension and continue to benefit from void years added until 2027 in order to reduce the possible 2025 cap penalty caused by the additional empty years.

The organization may make other changes to clear cap space; many have Josh Allen’s deal restructured in mind. After a season in which he suffered a steep decline in output during the second half of the year, Peter King of Pro Football Talk also proposed that the Bills renegotiate Diggs’ deal, asking him to take a salary cut.

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