Bengals.com Saying Bengals To Dump Payroll After Draft.

[BengalChris]

(03-18-2018, 02:38 PM)kevin Wrote: According to Bengals.com in a story headline about Bengals taking a break after busy 6 days.  It mentions the linebacker was too good to pass up and Bengals will deal with the 10 Million after the draft.  Hill just went to Patriots. They look for Jones and Bodine to other teams also. McCarron gone. Even with these players leaving, the signing of Eifert, Huber and getting a Left Tackle and a Linebacker has Bengals needing to dump payroll per Bengals.com.  They say after the draft some veterans will be gone.  They claim Bengals are looking to replace Bodine in the draft. It will be interesting to see who Bengals may trade or cut to dump payroll.  I don't know the contracts and all the legal parts but I would guess player contracts that would still not be eating cap space if gone.  Now, which Bengal contracts fall in that bucket, I have no idea, very lawyer type stuff.  Payroll cuts and veterans cut or traded is coming after the draft per Bengals.com saying Bengals need to free up cap space now.  Sounds right and I can see signing Eifert, the big name left tackle and the big name linebacker in a few days eating cap space.  Seems like Bengals know what they are doing. They probably already have a list of veterans they are getting rid of to dump payroll.  Bengals front office says they are happy the way it is going. so they must know who they are dumping late April or early May to free up cap money. Bringing in a tackle and a linebacker, I'm wondering if there is a big money tackle or a big money linebacker on this team with contracts that if cut or traded they free up cap space as opposed to still eating cap space.  Cuts are coming. People that know these contracts might be able to see who is on the bubble. Bengals did say they were going to shake things up and make moves after back to back losing seasons.

There's really no lawyer stuff when it comes to cutting salaries, it's all about the numbers.

Here's a link to salary cap and contracts for the Bengals. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/cap/ 

Saving available by cutting these players
DE Michael Johnson saves about $5M
C TJ Johonson saves about $1.5M
OT Ced Ogbuehi saves about $1.2M
FB Ryan Hewitt saves about $1.6M

There are a bunch of guys making between $480 and 630k who can be cut without much affect either way. Those add up and we'll be drafting 11 players if we don't trade away some of those picks.

The team will not cut LaFell since he just earned a $1M roster bonus.