Letting Johnson go makes NO sense. You are going to get minimum value for him because a team has to sign him to a big deal. You’d honestly be better off giving him what he wants now, and then trading him next year, if draft value is what you are looking for.

But putting return aside, Johnson is clearly one of your best (if not your best) young, home-grown players. It makes no sense at all to not re-sign him. Two reasons: 1. He’s a foundational piece in the secondary, 2. The rest of the team has already seen you boot guys last year. You kinda need a good faith re-sign that isn’t Kmet -for the sake of morale alone.

The only ray of sunshine this morning is me thinking of the total absurdity of that Velus end zone debacle and the meme that the Chargers sent out after the game. I mean, all Velus needed to do was stand there and catch the ball. Instead, he slipped and fell over. However, the football gods were attempting not to deny him this day, so they had the ball fall directly onto him on the ground, yet he still dropped the ball. Only in America.