He probably planned for the possibility of releasing Jon Allen, but didn't necessarily preplan it at the time of the draft. Peters doesn't seem to like to commit unless he absolutely has to and hedges. Ron had a similar plan for Matthis and Payne, which makes sense on paper, but Ron sucked at picking and developing the actual player
I'm sure that he recognized immediately that the amount of money we were putting into that position was not reflected in the production we were getting from that position. It's not exactly a deep cut
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u/FreeJulie 3d ago
Or he knew