Julio Jones landing spots: NFL insider breaks down best fits among teams favored to land the star WR
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It's looking more and more like Julio Jones will be dealt, but where?
This blockbuster offseason is far from over, though the timeframe in which major trades are made has largely passed. It will be quite some time before we see how quarterback situations with Aaron Rodgers and Deshaun Watson are resolved, and by and large owners have already spent their money for 2021. However, it continues to look ever so likely that Julio Jones is dealt, with the Falcons now months into their efforts to create some sort of a robust market for the future Hall of Famer. It's clear he is not in the team's short- or long-term plans, and that the organization has decided that peddling his contract is the means by which to create ample cap space to have a functioning operating baseline with which to sign draft picks and have some cap left over to add depth to account for injuries. Rather than reset the entire course of the franchise by undergoing a thorough rebuild and casting off descending assets at various positions, this team is trying to sell itself as a quasi-contender by largely keeping the band together under new management, while trying to find some significant level of compensation for an aging receiver making $15M this season after years of battling injuries and coming off back-to-back drafts overloaded with young, cheap talent at that very position.More Related News
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