I think they'll save money by cutting/trading him, so there's a pretty good chance this happens.
Yea Slay's cap hit is huge so it'll likely happen.
But again, that's why I was saying all year that the state of their roster last year was just a perfect storm where they had a bunch of high priced vets who hadn't quite had their cap hits catch up to their contracts yet, along with a bunch of guys who were on the last year of the deals, all coinciding with a rookie-deal QB blowing his wad and squeezing every drop out of himself by running 12 times a game.
Guys like Slay, AJ Brown and Reddick had relatively low cap hits last year that are all exploding this year and into the future. Guys like Hargrave, Bradberry, Gardner-Johnson, Kelce, Cox, Graham, both their starting LB's, Sanders and a few others are all UFA's, and of course Hurts is about to be extended.
So yea, they'll probably compete for the playoffs next year but I wouldn't be surprised if they missed it all together, and barring a Dak injury they aren't winning the division.