Before we discard Kelly and Smith, consider…

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I do agree though that I think it is time to move on from Ryan Kelly. He had a reasonable season last year, ranking according to PFF as the 17th best center. But in his absence Bortolini stepped in and played to a very similar standard, and was ranked as PFF's 22nd ranked center. Kelly excels in pass protection, whereas Bortolini was a more rounded player, but you would like to think he has far more potential to grow and develop as a player. What we would miss, initially at least is the elite level of tactical nous regards protections. Which might be a significant factor with the perceived inabilities that AR has on reading some of the disguises defenses show presnap.

A starting line of Raimann, Nelson, Bortolini, Fries and Smith could be awesome. Goncalves, Freeland, Glowinski, Tucker and French backing them up is also solid depth.

Monies invested in this lineup would be Raimann $3.5m, Nelson $22.7m, Bortonlini, $1.2m, Fries lets guess $13m, Smith $19.75m. That would be a total of 60.15m for the starters, the backups (French $1m, Goncalves 1.9m, Freeland $1.3m, Glowinski $1.5m, Tucker $1m) would command a further $6.7m, for a grand total of about $67m

For context last year we spent $67.3m