03-15-2022, 12:53 PM
FWIW, we currently have 54 players under contract. So when you see cap estimates, realize it is a full roster. No empty spaces. So when we sign a guy (or draft one), we lose what it cost to sign the player out of our space, but we are also gaining back the player who was in that salary spot (bee it $700k, $800k, $900k, whatever).
Now, the last dozen or so guys in that 54 are guys from the practice squad, with very low or no dead money if cut. But some of them played and played decently last year (Spence at DE, Johnston at LB).
Our projected rookie cap cost is a bit over $5 mil if everyone is signed. But cutting our 7 lowest signed players to make room for them also nets over $5 mil. It is nearly a wash. Of course, the highest paid rooks are more likely to make the squad, but if we cut a guy earning a bit more to compensate.....still a wash. No real need to chop $5 mil off our space to compensate.
With all that, cap, rollover, dead cap, adjustments, and guys we have signed so far, I have us at $13.5 in space. Cutting Waynes ($10.9), Fred Johnson ($2.4) and Brandon Wilson ($2) would clear $15 mil more and put us at $28.7.
Now, the last dozen or so guys in that 54 are guys from the practice squad, with very low or no dead money if cut. But some of them played and played decently last year (Spence at DE, Johnston at LB).
Our projected rookie cap cost is a bit over $5 mil if everyone is signed. But cutting our 7 lowest signed players to make room for them also nets over $5 mil. It is nearly a wash. Of course, the highest paid rooks are more likely to make the squad, but if we cut a guy earning a bit more to compensate.....still a wash. No real need to chop $5 mil off our space to compensate.
With all that, cap, rollover, dead cap, adjustments, and guys we have signed so far, I have us at $13.5 in space. Cutting Waynes ($10.9), Fred Johnson ($2.4) and Brandon Wilson ($2) would clear $15 mil more and put us at $28.7.
