Okay, since it's been a week since the end of the draft and this topic is slightly more appropriate, are there any highly rated Cs that would be a fit for GB if they release Elgton Jenkins? OvertheCap shows that releasing Jenkins either before or after June 1st saves $20 million .
Originally Posted by: Mucky Tundra
My assumption is that
IF Jenkins plays well enough, then he'd be given an extension with that $20 million being part of the signing bonus for the next contract.
And
IF they released Jenkins, then they might attempt to re-sign Rhyan and move him to Center, as he was the backup behind Jenkins last year.
Here is PFF's current big board for 2026 Centers.
Their overall ranking is on the left.
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You have insufficient rights to see the content.Note: Also Gute seems to have a type, so far, (with one exception) all of the OL that Gute has drafted, have all been between 6'4" flat and 6'6" flat. The one exception was C/G Jacob Monk, who was 6'3" flat. (Note: flat meaning 0/8th of an inch) But Gute UDFAs OTs have often been 6'7".
And more recently, the OL that they have been bringing in are power man blockers. Looking at their weight, some of them, especially the most athletic OTs, some of them are in the 305-310 lbs range, but also a lot of them are in the 320+ range too, probably especially right now since it seems we're going more towards man, power blocking scheme and getting a bit further away from the zone stuff.
But following Gute's normal draft height preferences, that quickly limits to lost down to just C Jake Slaughter.
Though Connor Lew is 6'3¼", while Bryce Foster and Connor Tollison are 6'3¾", which is theory might be close enough. But so far Gute has only broken the rule once, and that was at a late 5th round pick at #163.
Gute says he's open minded, but generally speaking, he doesn't go small... he might.go average, but not small, unless maybe a very late round pick.
Though a lot of positions that weight based, like WR Aamari Rodgers was short, but heavy. And excluding 7th rounders, all Gute's CB, S and RBs have all been attacked least 195lbs and a strong majority have been 200+ lbs.