01-10-2024, 08:22 PM
(01-10-2024, 07:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You may be right, he did mention that did not account for paying a new draft class, so that had me curious.
Cap space and effective cap space are 2 different things.
Effective cap space is the projected cap space a team will have after accounting for 51 players and it's rookie class.
For instance, Overthecap has the Bengals at around 68m in cap space, but only 54m in effective cap space.
https://overthecap.com/salary-cap-space
Here's another look at effective cap space...
https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-teams-2024-offseason-resources-cap-space-2024-nfl-draft