03-29-2022, 03:51 PM
I knew we had a good bit of cap space to work with. And I know that they can easily draft the contract so that the cap hit the first year (or years) is much smaller than the average salary. But I am still surprised to see we have this much space left.
I use spotrac all the time. but I don't understand how they are calculating the salary cap hits for our draft picks. Even though they have separate columns for "total" and "top 51" the numbers don't make sense. From their projections of the salaries and signing bonuses it doesn't look like we need more than $3 million.
No real big players eligible for an extension either (Bell, Jonah). We can still work out a long term deal with Bates if he wants to, but a new contract for Bates could actually give us more cap room (if we needed it).
I believe they can offer Burrow an extension after next season. Maybe they will roll most of that over to use on Joe.
All I was expecting was a mid tier OT ($4-$6 million) and maybe another CB. But I was thinking we only had about $10 million in cap space left. I had not checked the exact numbers recently.
I use spotrac all the time. but I don't understand how they are calculating the salary cap hits for our draft picks. Even though they have separate columns for "total" and "top 51" the numbers don't make sense. From their projections of the salaries and signing bonuses it doesn't look like we need more than $3 million.
No real big players eligible for an extension either (Bell, Jonah). We can still work out a long term deal with Bates if he wants to, but a new contract for Bates could actually give us more cap room (if we needed it).
I believe they can offer Burrow an extension after next season. Maybe they will roll most of that over to use on Joe.
All I was expecting was a mid tier OT ($4-$6 million) and maybe another CB. But I was thinking we only had about $10 million in cap space left. I had not checked the exact numbers recently.
