re: Needs going into the offseason

Cap space after cutting Byrd: $30M ($35M - $5M for draft picks)

1. Re-sign Fairley to a heavily incentivised 2 yr, $15M deal. (2017 cap hit: $7M).
2. Re-sign Kuhn, Hightower, Mauti, and one of Moore/Webb (~$5M for all).
3. Tender Snead ($2.6M) and Coleman ($1.6M).
4. Sign the best G we can to man RG. ($8M).
5. Use the remaining ~$6M to sign a DE and S.

Draft

1 - trade down for a early 20s 1st and extra 3rd
1 - LB Zach Cunningham
2 - DE
3 - RB (we need some talented depth and this draft is loaded at RB)
3 - CB
4 - RT
6 - G/C
7 - BPA

Post FA depth chart:

QB Brees/McCown
RB Ingram/Hightower/3rd rd rookie/Lasco
FB Kuhn
WR1 Thomas/Coleman
WR2 Cooks/Lampman
SWR Snead/Lewis or UDFA
TE Fleener/Hill/Hooman
LT Armstead/Kelemente
LG Peat/Kelemente
C Unger/6th rd pick
RG FA/Turner
RT Strief/4th rd pick

LE Kikaha/2nd rd pick/Gwachum
DT Fairley/Rankins
NT Davison/Onyemama
RE Jordan/FA

SLB Stupar/Anthony
MLB Cunningham/Mauti
WLB Ellerbe/Robertson

CB1 Breaux/Crawley
CB2 Williams/3rd rd pick
SCB Moore

SS Vaccaro/Harris
FS Bell/FA