03-13-2024, 05:48 PM
(03-13-2024, 05:42 PM)Au165 Wrote: The issue is it would have been worse for SF. They utilized a post June 1st designation on him moving his cap hit from 25 million this year to 10 million. Had they traded him he would have counted as that $25 million hit which would have been prohibitive to the 49ers cap situation.
Yes you are right. Looking at Spotrac I see the cut only counts as 10.5 million against the cap this year vs 26 in a trade. That is a huge difference so the cut makes sense