This offseason (speculation)?

Our young players reaching a second contract have earned over value salaries since there will be a for them.

We simply we don’t have the money to afford all of them.

Which is why you take the 1 or 2 players that you decide you can’t fit into the payroll and flip them for new players coming into the league. Maybe or maybe not Burrow, but it isn’t really mortgaging the future when the only alternative is to let them leave for nothing.