03-04-2016, 01:40 PM
(03-04-2016, 11:32 AM)BengalChris Wrote: Not exactly. Hall's $9M contract from last year is gone and is already part of that $36M, as are the contracts of all current free agents. However, if a draft pick replaces a player currently under contract, say like a player named Margus Hunt (cough, cough), then Hunt's contract would go away, but any dead money in that contract would still count against the cap. For Hunt I believe the dead money in the deal if he were cut this year would be $262K. If we sign a new Kicker, then all of Nugent's money would return to the cap since there is no dead money in it.
Thank you. That is the salary cap accounting details which the Bengals never put out with the smoke and mirrors.
Let's say the Bengals draft a 1st round DT and release Peko. Peko's cap savings would be roughly $3.5M +/-. Right? D.J. Humphrey was drafted 24th last year with rookie cap hit of $1.6M.
That's roughly, a ball park $2M cap savings (just to make the math easy for me.) That cap savings will damn near cover the rest of your rookie pool, correct? Please let me know if I'm wrong. Thanks.
