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[Luvnit2]

I love the exercise, but garbage in equals garbage out. The salary cap estimate is $176 million, it was close to $200 million in 2020 so close to a 15% reduction. To me this means, we will see a 15% reduction (or close to it) on most free agents and or a lot if cuts due to many teams (10) already over the cap prior to the draft.

So the Bengals gain a 2 way competitive advantage, they have an estimated 42 million in cap space prior to any cuts they may make or salaries reduced (i see most teams reducing salaries of some players). The second advantage is they have great draft position, it may cost them more for their rookie pools, but vets will still be a lot more expensive than rookies. For example, a rookie LT/RT for 4 years will be 8 to 10 million cheaper than an all pro OT vet on 2nd or 3rd contract.

Cut savings - (does not count restructure CJ, T. Waynes and others) = $20.2 million added to $42 million = 62.2 million
I cut and save almost 10 million with Geno
I cut and save 4 million with Gio
I cut and save 3 million with Finney
Billy Price - save 3.2 million

FA Signings and own Signings = 47.5 million
Thuney -14 million
Dupree 14 million
M. Alexander - 5.5 million
W. Jackson - 8 million
Huber 3.2 million
C.Samuals 7.5 million

Rookie Pool - 11 million, so leaves at least 4 million for injury pool or cut Hart for 6 million after TC is Sewall is ready to start 2021
1. Sewall (OT)
2. D. Brown - OG Alabama
3. Sage Surratt Wake Forest