You Got a Better Plan?

[KI Skins Fan]

Taking the premise that the Skins do not sign Kirk Cousins to a long-term deal, what would you do then?

In my view the first advantage this would provide would be a lot more cap space. I would use it on a couple of top-notch, young FA's. I realize that FA is about to begin but the Skins may already know whether or not they're likely to sign Kirk. So, what the heck, dive into FA!

I believe that a team has to have true star players sprinkled throughout its position groups to be a contender. I'm not a big fan of mid-level FA's because they don't move the needle much, IMO. So the first thing I'd do is to go all out to sign Brandon Williams to anchor our DL and Dont'a Hightower to anchor the middle of our defense. These are two young , talented players who we could wrap up for five years.

We'll have plenty of cap space, so I'd re-sign Chris Baker and sign a few other good FA's such as Ron Leary (LG).

Now, it's time to trade Kirk. I feel that we don't need to "win" a trade for Kirk, we just need to get one potential star. Kirk wants to go to SF. So be it. The cost to SF for Kirk is the #2 pick in this year's draft. Sure, we'll try to get more but there is no trade without that #2 pick. With that pick, I'd draft Johnathan Allen to play 3-4 DE.

Next, I'm going for Leonard Fournette. We're losing our starting QB and we'll be weaker in the passing game, so we've got to improve our running game. The Jets are shopping the #6 pick, so I'd trade for that pick with the idea of picking Fournette at #6. That will take our #17 pick and some other picks. If we can't get Fournette, I'd take Dalvin Cook. If we can't get either one, I'd draft another position.

I want to achieve this:

Rebuild our DL with Johnathan Allen, Brandon Williams, and Chris Baker
Strengthen our Running game with Leonard Fournette and Ron Leary.
Put a playmaker in the middle of our defense with Dont'a Hightower.

You got a better plan?