Assessing the Cap

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(03-30-2022, 06:17 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Maybe this will help everyone to see the cap hits (top51) for each team which factors in each team's draft picks + the offset of removing a player from  the top 51.

"A look at the estimated Top 51 cap space needed for each team to sign its draft class during the offseason. These figures consist of the projected 2022 cap figure for each slotted draft pick in next month's draft."

https://www.spotrac.com/spots/projected-2022-nfl-draft-pools-1453/

There are teams that need a lot of cap space for draft picks, we need a little over 5.3 million.

I am sure the guys at Spotrac understand this better than me.  But they list the estimated base salary of our #1 pick to be $705,000 and the signing bonus to be $1,589,331 for a total of $2,294,331.  Then they list the cap hit under "total" as $2,294,331 and also under "top 51" as $2,294,331.  The signing bonus does not appear to be spread out over the length of the contract and it does not seem to take into account the salary that would be bumped from the "top 51".

Cincinnati Bengals 2022 Salary Cap Table | Spotrac