Conclusion from this game for me. Thinking about next year, Guard is a very important position and the obvious choice of Ben Cleveland is not atop the charts for Harbs. May make moving on from Powers and Zeitler impossible. Even with moving on from one, you need to find another high quality player. A hole we didn't want to have.
Would really love for Lamar to reach that deal so we can enter a 2 year window of really being able to compete.
So I personally don't think they'll move on from Zeitler yet.
What I don't really know is what Powers value is on the market. Could be high, could be low. A lot of us thought Bozeman priced himself out of Baltimore, and that wasn't even close to being true.
I would struggle with extending Powers before he tests FA because I think he's like the perfect player to let the market set value and go from there. If they think he's like a $10-15M a year player, then he won't be back. Probably true even if we extended Lamar. If the market isn't as robust for him, he could return.
While they're dramatically different ages, keep in mind Zeitler is still the better player, and his AAV is only $7.5M. So if I could extend Powers in that range, I'd consider it.
I'm only concerned about Guard if we lose both, which I doubt. I think you can draft somebody on day 3 and they can play reasonably well right away, or I think we could sign a cheaper veteran if needed.