Assessing the Cap

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(03-21-2022, 11:02 AM)leonardfan40 Wrote: Based on the numbers Crazyjdawg posted above only our first 3 picks are likely to count in the cap (which counts only the top 51 players salaries). Those 3 picks combine to $3.916 mil, but each of those will knock off a player from the top 51 contracts which means each one will kick around $825k out of our cap hit while adding the above cap hits at the same time.

The cap hits will likely be a little over what they were last year which is the numbers posted above but not by much. One other thing to keep in mind is the last/lowest of the top 51 contracts will decrease if we cut guys like Waynes/Johnson for cap space.

$3.916 mil - (3 players times $825k) $2.475 mil leaves us only needing about $1.441 mil in cap space to cover. Not sure where the guy in the tweet is coming up with his numbers but we shouldn’t need much cap space at all for draft picks this year.

I had the 51 but didn’t think about the difference versus new money so that makes sense.