Suh’s contract, which paid out $60 million fully guaranteed over the first three years, has rolling guarantees in each of the next three. For 2018, his $16.985 million salary becomes fully guaranteed on March 18. The Dolphins could trade the remainder of Suh’s deal, at three years and $54.375 million (an average of $18.125 million per year), taking a cap charge of $22.2 million but realizing a net cap gain of $3.9 million. They also could cut him as with a post-June 1 designation, dropping the 2018 cap hit to $5.1 million and pushing $17.1 million of dead money into 2019. (They’d still have to carry his full 2018 cap charge until June 2.) The Dolphins could keep him at his 2018 cap number of $26.1 million, finding other ways to create cap space. Whatever the Dolphins do, they need to do something. That something could include a cap-influenced decision to move on from Ndamukong Suh.
Well, your first option makes zero sense- I don't think we can't get rid of him AND have $22M on the books. Cutting him makes more sense short term but I still don't think the math works out in our favor. So I think the only real option is to keep him. Suh is worth that $18M a year; we just can't afford it and our DE's/LB's don't take enough advantage of the attention Suh commands. That's not Suh's fault though...the guy definitely delivers.
If we don't keep Suh oue defense will be even worse, our bad Lb will be even more exposed, they will rework Cam Wake and Cut Timmons and Thomas and rework Tannehill that will create about 25million in Cap Space
My guess is a two year extension that lowers his cap hit this year and next year, and giving an out with a June 1st release in 2020.
