Geordie
Club Member
Cutting Tannehill after June first would be my way to go. The dead money would "only" be a little over 5mill for 2019. The dead money in 2020 would be 13mill but he'd be the only player on the books for dead money so it'd be ok to do it then.
I think his dead money for 2020 is only around $7-8 million, I may be wrong but the way I understood it was that we could either take the full cap hit in 2019 of $13 million by cutting him prior to June 1st or split it over 2 years by waiting till after that date.
My preference would be to take the full hit in 2019 because in all honesty it's difficult to make a case to not move on from him within the next few years, 2019 is unlikely to be a championship season, so why not get on with the rebuild as quick as possible and clear the cap space for 2020 and on wards.