Assessing the Cap

[leonardfan40]

(03-21-2022, 10:19 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I went to 2021 and looked up the year 1 cap hits for the 31st, 63rd and 95th picks and they were:
31: 2.031M
63: 1.011M
95: 874K

Our current cut off for the top 51 is 731k, so all three would current count towards the cap in the off season.

So I'm surprised he has such a low assumption. I'll look through his tweets and see if he gives a justification for it.

(03-21-2022, 10:28 AM)Au165 Wrote: Again, that isn't correct. The total value of year 1 rookie deals against the cap will be close to 8.3 million, again pick 31 is over 2 million by themselves. Because of the 51 rule most those guys from day 3 won't count this year but it is much higher than 2.7 for rookies to plan for.

Based on the numbers Crazyjdawg posted above only our first 3 picks are likely to count in the cap (which counts only the top 51 players salaries). Those 3 picks combine to $3.916 mil, but each of those will knock off a player from the top 51 contracts which means each one will kick around $825k out of our cap hit while adding the above cap hits at the same time.

The cap hits will likely be a little over what they were last year which is the numbers posted above but not by much. One other thing to keep in mind is the last/lowest of the top 51 contracts will decrease if we cut guys like Waynes/Johnson for cap space.

$3.916 mil - (3 players times $825k) $2.475 mil leaves us only needing about $1.441 mil in cap space to cover. Not sure where the guy in the tweet is coming up with his numbers but we shouldn’t need much cap space at all for draft picks this year.