Derek Carr won’t take a pay cut for 2025 but willing to restructure to help the cap

Clintonrebel said

I'm just saying take your salary cap lumps with Cam, maybe Taysom and Honey Badger and probably a few aging linemen and let Carr bridge that period. Cutting or trading Carr eats up too much cap, meaning you get stuck with all these aging vets aging another year or two on the roster. I think QB is toward the end of the rebuild.

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That's certainly a reasonable option. I'd just prefer to see what Rattler can do with a mediocre team around him so we know if we need to go find a young QB in 2026. Carr is likely gone in 2026 no matter what so we will need a young QB then anyway. If Rattler doesn't play, we won't know if he is the young QB we need. There isn't much more learning he can do on the bench. He needs to get on the field to develop further.