Skill position moves for next season

WR:

Retain Cooks, Collins and Amendola.

Sign a veteran WR to a mid-size deal ($4-8m annual with only 1 year guarantee) or a 'prove it' 1 year deal (potential options: DJ Chark, Jamison Crowder, Emmanual Sanders, Christian Kirk, Josh Reynolds, Cedric Wilson, Kalif Raymond, Michael gallup..etc). Ideally someone who's a little bigger (6'3+) to compliment Cooks and Amendola who are both slot sized

Draft a WR relatively early. We really need to get more young offensive talent into the pipeline and I want us to use an early round pick on a WR. If we get draft capital from Deshaun Watson, I'd like us to target a WR with our 2nd 1st or one of our 2nds. If we don't execute a trade before the draft, I'd want us to use a 3rd or 4th on a WR we like but prioritize other areas with first picks.

Brandin Cooks on his last year with the team still gives Mills a 'go-to guy' (and a dude we can look to trade before the deadline if we're not competitive). Nico Collins showed a lot of promise, but think it would be useful for us to use a modest amount of cap space on a quality vet alongside Cooks and for us to get another dude in the WR pipeline. Collins can be the 3 to start the year and grow into being a 1 or 2 if he maximizes his potential. Think we can get Mills weapons here relatively easily

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RB:

Retain: Rex Burkhead

Sign a relatively cheap veteran ($4m a year max with only 1 year of cap hit) on a short term 'prove' it deal (some candidates: D'onta Foreman, Marlon Mack, Devonta Freeman, Sony Michel, Melvin Gordon, Malcolm Brown, Latavius Murray, Tevin Coleman..etc). Ideally a guy who's a little bigger to compliment Rex.

Draft a RB in the mid rounds (3-5) that we really like. We need a younger RB in our pipeline and ideally I'd like us to devote an early/mid round pick on a guy we feel can grow into becoming the starter by end of season.

I love what I've seen from Rex and think him and Mills vibe well, but he's never been a feature back for more than a few games in his career and we definitely can't assume he's going to produce like this in a starting role next year. I'm cool with him going into next year as the starter and love what I've seen from him the last 5 or so games, but we definitely need to get another veteran RB to compliment/compete with him and draft a guy to get a talented dude in our pipeline.

We know Caserio likes having 3-4 RBs on his roster so I expect us to bring in a few other vets as well to compete in training camp

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TE:

Keep Brevin Jordan

Sign: 2 veteran dudes on 'prove its' with one of them being a good blocking TE

Draft: maybe a late round pick to get another guy in if we really like one of the TE's around in the 6th or 7th round but we shouldn't draft one early

Brevin's shown promise but we can't assume he's going to be a quality starter so we should bring in at least one veteran guy on a no risk deal to compete and play alongside Brevin. Brevin also isn't a very big TE so might be good to have a veteran blocking guy too. I do really like Brevin, but I've been around this franchise for loo long to just expect a tight end to emerge as a good player lol