With all the talk of the one-year contracts the Redskins have been handing out lately, here is a look at the Redskins who are slated to be unrestricted free agents in 2018.

We’ll divide them into three categories with the caveat that a lot could happen to change this outlook between now and early March of 2018. One will be core players and others the Redskins are likely to want to re-sign next year. Then there are players who are likely to on the roster this year but the Redskins might want to let walk in 2018. The third category is players who are on the bubble for making the roster this year.

Core players (11)

RB Chris Thompson

ILB Will Compton

ILB Mason Foster

ILB Zach Brown

WR Terrelle Pryor

QB Kirk Cousins

K Dustin Hopkins

OLB Trent Murphy

OT Morgan Moses

C Spencer Long

CB Bashaud Breeland

The key player here, of course, is Cousins. If he is around it will either be on a tag that will cost from $28-$34 million or on a long-term contract that could take up about $15-$20 million in cap space. In either case a deal would squeeze their ability to pay some of the other players.

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The draft is likely to have an affect here. One or two of the inside linebackers could be removed from the “core” list if the Redskins take one early in the draft. A wide receiver taken in the first two days of the draft could make Pryor a lower priority.

The Redskins could reduce the number of names on this list prior to 2018. They have until July 15 to get a long-term deal done with Cousins. Thompson and Compton have not signed their restricted free agent tenders and they could negotiate multiyear contracts rather than playing on their one-year tenders. Murphy, Moses, Long, and Breeland were drafted in 2014 and they are now eligible to get their deals redone.

2018 bubble (7)

OLB Junior Galette

G Shawn Lauvao

WR Brian Quick

TE Niles Paul

DB Will Blackmon

DB DeAngelo Hall

WR Ryan Grant

There are a few of sub-groups in this category. Galette and Paul must demonstrate that they can stay healthy and could be 2018 core players if they do. Quick and Grant have not produced much in their careers and the Redskins might want to move on if their careers don’t start to blossom. Hall, Blackmon and Lauvao will all be over 30 and the team may want to go younger and cheaper.

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2017 bubble (6)

NT Phil Taylor

TE Derek Carrier

LB Chris Carter

CB Tharold Simon

S Josh Evans

OL Vinston Painter

This list pretty much explains itself. These are players who will have to battle hard to avoid being free agents after the Redskins cut their roster to 53 on September 2.

Salary cap space

How much money will the Redskins have to work with? With so many free agents they will have a lot of cap space. With the contracts they have as of this moment they are about $67 million under the projected $178 million cap. The only major addition that we know will happen here is the salaries of their 2017 draft picks. Depending on how many of their 10 picks they keep that will add about $5-$7 million to their expenditures. Barring contract extensions to veterans they should go into 2018 with roughly $60 million in cap space.

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