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(03-27-2025, 01:18 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Yep. You will notice spotrac now is aligned with OTC on Higgins and Slaton. I have been doing this for a bit, but when the two are in conflict, OTC ends up being right far more often than spotrac. Which is why I use OTC from jump. 

I think your numbers are basically correct, but how you get there is kinda off. 

The draft picks won't cost $5.3 mil over whatcwe have already. I honestly don't understand why more people don't get this. You cannot just add up the costs of the contracts. You already have 51 on the roster. It is the pick's contract cost minus the cost of the guy they are pushing off. 

Of course, who they push off and how many make the roster are unknown. The cap hit of #17 is $3.1. #49 is $1.5. #81 is $1.1. The only pick that adds significantly is the #1. And that is roughly $2.2 mil. Some guys will create cap space (Brightwell makes $1.1, M  Wilson $1.5, J. Davis over $1.0, Burton $1.3). Call it $2.5, for the picks. $3 mil, max, and it could be less. 

Picks: $2.5 
53 not 51: $2 mil 
PS: $3-$4 mil 
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$7.5-$8.5 off 

That is $16-$17 mil with no cushion. I think that cushion is probably a bit higher. But at least $5-$6 mil. I think more like $8-$10. Moss will be cut once medically cleared, add $3.3. 

Now you are at $20. Trey (+6 mil cap) + a G ($5 mil cap) would leave ys at $9 mil. Which goes up back to $12.5 if you cut Volson. Maybe enough for one more moderate move. 

It is listed at the bottom of the Spotrac bengal page
They have it at 8.6 million cap hit and 5.3 offset as I listed.

I gave you the spotrac link which you obviously did not reference. They calculated it for me versus your method of attempting to do it by hand.

As for 51 versus 53, yes if no cuts are made, each team spends likely an additional 2 million for the 2 additional players.

So if that is factored in, Bengals still have over 8 million all in, my point is we still have the money to sign 1 or 2 players and stay under the cap, nore high level if we restructured Burrow's deal or converted anyone's base salary to a bonus to puch it further out to get cap relief now as a lot of teams alredy have done in 2025 including Saints, Chiefs, Ravens and Buffalo (a lot is pushed into later years for Bills and Chiefs)