kerouac9
Klowned by Keim
can we call them today and trade them a sixth round pick for his rights??
No. Trading season has closed until the league year opens in March, at which time Albert will (likely) become a free agent and KC won't have his rights.
We don't even have the money to place the Franchise Tag on him even if we were able to get his rights before then.
Sundevil suggests that we can "mid-load" the contract so that Albert gets a windfall in 2015 when the Cards have more cap space. It's not impossible that he would agree to this deal, but it's unlikely. Other teams will be able to offer him substantially more money right now, and there are no guarantees that Albert would be paid if he's injured or something in the second year of that deal .
Miami will have at least $10M in cap space before releasing players to make additional roster changes, for example. The Giants will have a similar amount of money and a need at LT.