On Tuesday, the Detroit Lions headed out in different directions from veteran wellbeing Tracy Walker. It was difficult to see him go, taking into account how very much respected he was both with fans and the group. Be that as it may, from a business outlook, it was a really direct choice. Walker was because of cost more than $12 million against the cap, he completed last year as a sound dormant during the end of the season games, and Detroit had the option to make $5.5 million in cap space with his delivery. It appears to be raunchy to say it, yet Walker’s delivery was an inevitable outcome when the season finished. The Lions face a significantly more hard choice with regards to the eventual fate of protective end John Cominsky. Similar as Walker, Cominsky enters 2024 with a swelled cap hit. Last year, Cominsky marked a two-year, $8.5 million arrangement, yet his cap hit in Year 1 was simply $2.3 million. That leaves him costing $6.3 million against the cap in 2024, with just $1.7 million of that ensured. So, on the off chance that Detroit chooses to head out in different directions from him, they’ll make one more $4.6 million in cap space. Is Cominsky worth $6.3 million against the cap? It’s an extreme inquiry to respond to. Per Over The Cap, Cominsky’s cap hit positions him 31st among inside safeguards and 36th among edge protectors. Players with comparative cap hits in 2024 incorporate Deatrich Shrewd, Tyus Bowser, Jarran Reed, and Bashful Tuttle. In this way, he’s not precisely begging to be spent. However, simply contrasting him with different Lions players, Cominsky’s cap hit is 10th most elevated in the group, with just Jared Goff, Taylor Decker, Straightforward Ragnow, Cameron Sutton, Aidan Hutchinson, Penei Sewell, David Montgomery, and David Montgomery in front of him. Those players assume a more vital part to the group than Cominsky, who completed the season behind 2022 second-round pick Josh Paschal in the group’s guarded line pivot. At the point when Cominsky marked his long term bargain, he deserved it. In 2022, he created 4.0 sacks, 12 quarterback hits, 44 tensions (per PFF), five handles for misfortune, three passes protected, and one constrained bumble. In spite of playing north of 100 additional snaps in 2023, his creation fell no matter how you look at it: Essentially: the Lions marked Cominsky to a two-year bargain that served more like a one-year, demonstrate it arrangement, and any reasonable person would agree that Cominsky didn’t really procure that second year in his agreement. However, Cominsky’s worth goes past a case score. He is cherished by the staff in Detroit since he typifies all that this group needs to be: coarse, dedicated, and tireless. He’s a culture setter and culture maintainer. In spite of a “down” year, this is the very thing that guarded organizer Aaron Glenn needed to say about Cominsky in late December. “I think you all expertise I feel about Commish, he’s a definitive fighter,” Glenn said. “Anything you request that he do, he will go out there and do it. What’s more, man, he is a Detroit Lion completely, so. Truly like that player, truly like what he offers of real value.” That doesn’t precisely seem like a training staff keen on keeping a tight budget. And keeping in mind that Paschal positively appeared to bounce him on the profundity outline, dislike Cominsky was a piece player in 2023. From Week 13 through the end of the season games, he played no less than 50% of the guarded snaps in each game however one (excluding Week 17, which the Lions used to rest him as a sound dormant). For the season, he had more protective snaps than some other Lions guarded lineman not named Aidan Hutchison. So assuming you will dispose of Cominsky, that is a quite large job you really want to fill — and Detroit as of now has a lot of requirements on edge side of the ball. Might you at any point fill that job with a superior player through the $4.6 million in reserve funds? There is a choice between keeping him and cutting him: moving toward him about a potential compensation cut. The Lions did this with three unique players last year: they cut Halapoulivaati Vaitai’s compensation from $9.4 million to $3 million, Romeo Okwara’s compensation from $11 million to $2 million, and Charles Harris’ compensation from $6 million to $3 million. Harris’ renegotiation gives a quite simple coordinated correlation of how the Lions could manage Cominsky. The disadvantage to that will be that it’s not precisely a decent look to consistently request that your players take a paycut. While it’s ideal to have responsibility as a feature of your way of life and players are sufficiently brilliant to realize this is a business, it would be silly to feel that outer players wouldn’t see this developing standing. Requesting paycuts isn’t extraordinary to the Lions, yet on the off chance that they practice it all the time of doing it consistently, specialists and players will observe. Eventually, this boils down to a couple of inquiries: could the Lions at any point view as a less expensive — possibly more youthful — improvement at a place that needs an overhaul? Do they truly require the $4.6 million in cap space considering their agreeable cap position? Could Cominsky at any point bounce back? Are his intangibles worth the diminished creation on the field? Those answers will lead the Lions to a hard choice.