Assessing the Cap

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(03-21-2022, 09:47 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Jake Liscow has been doing his best to track the cap using estimated cap hits when he didn't have better information. This is what he came up with:

Thanks to @John__Sheeran pointing out Clay Johnston and Mitchell Wilcox haven't been announced on ERFA deals, I took them off the cap tracker.

With a -very- rough guess of $8m for Collins' year-1 hit, this is what the cap would look like after releasing Trae Waynes. pic.twitter.com/ByD3aQDX4q

— Jake Liscow (@JakeLiscow) March 20, 2022

He's assuming we roll 6 million over to next year (I wish we didn't and just go all in, but it's the Bengals way) and he assumes the rookie class will cost about 2.7 million in 2022 cap hit. I am not sure where he got that number, but I imagine it is based on historical data plus some trending.

So we basically have 3 to 5 million left in spendable money once we cut Waynes.

If we don't cut Waynes, then we're pretty much done and will need to cut someone else at some point.

I'm pretty sure the rookie reserve should be closer to 5.4 million total. Pick 31 alone is about 2.3 million, and while a lot of the back end may not qualify as top 51 day 2 and early 3 should.