2018 Cap Space

[BengalChris]

(06-05-2017, 01:07 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Most of the guys you mention are cheap, won't get raises (the only time we have to worry about a player eating up more cap space is if he gets a raise) and you also have to consider that the salary cap will likely go up again next year. IMO, there's currently little to worry about and we're in very good shape going into next year. We probably could've spent $8-10 million more in free agency and still would've been okay.

Plus as you mention, several big salaries will likely be dumped next year. Pacman, LaFell and Michael Johnson are likely candidates that would save upwards of almost $15 million. If they part with Dennard, that's 23 million. Add in rollover, and we're likely looking at $40+ million in cap space again, with only Burfict and Eifert to worry about. Both players that most teams will likely avoid due to cost/risk ratio.

I have to agree completely. The team is pretty good at having around $40M to spend.

Then, of course, there's the annual Hobson article saying how we really only have $18M or $19M to spend. Of course we always seem to end up with extra at the end that can be rolled over.

With regards to Burfict and Eifert I more or less expect the team to make low offers to both sighting their number of games missed due to injury as the reason. We had around $40M this year and failed to make decent offers to our best two free agents.