« Reply #32 on: August 17, 2022, 03:42:42 PM »
based on who's left and still having 3 spots open, I'd take a run at Sexton, Harrell and Lamb for the min if they've got no other offers. Howard and Whiteside could be really helpful big bodies but they're track record of being team headaches really turns me off of them as options.
Sexton has a qualifying offer $7.2 million. He’s staying with Cleveland — either on a long-term deal or the QO.
that's what I would have thought but seeing him on this list I got the impression he didn't get the QO and was allowed to be a UFA.
I didn't differentiate but Sexton is a restricted free agent. Still a free agent but CLE has him in a corner now. No other team can offer him anything to even match the QO. And CLE has no incentive to offer him a big contract even though they can (unless they are forced to match which they won't be). I think IND and SAN have cap space so they in theory could make a run at any of these higher end FAs but doesn't seem they will.
Of course they have an incentive to offer him a big contract, if they don't they will lose him for nothing as he has a no trade clause and they won't really be able to do anything with him next summer when he walks out the door to a team with cap space. They don't have to pay him the max, but they should be thinking about something similar to what they gave Allen.
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