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Base projections that I have seen on most sites are in the 5-10% cap/MLE increase range. But I guess you could be right. We have seen seasons without any MLE changes in the last ten years.

Just to play with the numbers. For 2024/25

+5%   12.83 first year salary
+10% 13.47 first year salary

Oh, I thought when you said "current MLE" you were talking about the looming numbers for this summer.

If we assume 12.2M MLE this summer, and are talking about MLE in summer of 2024 and factor in a 7.5% bump (right in the middle of your preferred range), another team with full MLE can offer him up to 4/56.4.

70M still looks a good bit too rich to me.

My concern is that while he took a decent jump in the 1st half of last season, he leveled out or even came back down in the last half. It would be helpful if we had behind-the-scenes knowledge of whether he's showing something more that we don't see in the games, but we don't.

IMO it's not about whether he is tradable at that number, but rather the question of what you can spend -- he just doesn't produce enough to merit 17M/year. At this point, if he was wanting and insisting on 70M (or who knows, maybe even more?), I'd have to leave him for the RFA world.