Assessing the Cap

[Luvnit2]

(03-29-2022, 09:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Seems to me no matter who we add to the roster, either draft pick or free agent, the cap hit would be net of the player bumped out of the top 51.  But Spotract had the same cap hit for our draft picks under both "total" and "top 51"

If you look at NFL cap for Bengals, to the right top corner it breaks down the cap. I believe the number they use for all cap includes cost of projected rookie salary without any offset of top 51 salaries but numbers do not match exactly. I was trying to figure it out. In our case the rookie pool offset is 5.3 million, but they take our current 18.3 million and subtract almost 7 million leaving us with 11 million after rookie contracts.

If you look after the cap and it breaks down every draft pick, there are 2 numbers, I think 1st is projected rookie contracts, I think the second number (5.3 million in our case) offsets against current top 51.