Breaking down the Bengals cap situation

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(03-04-2016, 05:09 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Whether Nata was on the team or not, he counted $7.5M in dead money on Baltimore's cap.  By trading Nata they saved $8.5M in cap space for his his salary and received 2 draft picks for a player that wouldn't renegotiate and were going to lose anyway even though he counted as $7.5M in dead money.  If they kept him he would counted $16M towards their cap instead of $7.5M.  Point being the Bengals don't need to put a single dollar aside for potential dead money as Hobson wrote.

So the Ravens got s player to replace Ngata who played for free?

if you cut a player that creates dead money you still have to pay another player to replace him.