01-28-2025, 01:22 PM
(01-27-2025, 08:38 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: No, they don't. The two main services that track that sort of thing has them around $45-$48M of usable cap space. You must account for some automatic spending items like rookie contracts, practice squad salary, injury fund, etc. when looking at a raw cap number.
Even starting at a $47-$49 starting point, you have 51 guys under contract.
1) The only rookie that costs significantly more than the guy he displaces is the Rd1 pick. Say +$2 mil more.
2) The PS + the last 2 roster slots (under $1 mil each) will indeed add around $5 mil.
So, yeah, we are in the $40-$42 mil range, not counting the padding/cushion.
But it is pretty easy to get close to $100 mil.
1) Cut the dead wood. Cappa nets $8 mil, Rankins $8.6, Hubbard $9.5, Volson $3.5, Moss $3.3. By my count, that is $33 mil. So we are now at $73-$75 mil.
2) Max restructure for Burrow adds $19 mil. $91-$94 mil.
3) Other possible cut candidates: Stone ($6.475), Pratt ($5.85), Sample ($2.75). Post June 1: OBJ ($7.26), McPherson ($2.5), Burton ($1.059).
My point is we have LOTS more that $47 mil in cap, not less. If we choose to go that route.
