2019 Salary Cap - Bengals Cap Space

[BengalChris]

(12-11-2018, 08:01 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Salary cap update for 2019:

NFL told its teams today that the 2019 salary cap is projected to be in the range of $187-to-$191.1 millon.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 11, 2018

The Bengals also have about 8.5m that can be rolled over, making their total projected cap to be 195.5-199.6m.

Right now, the Bengals look to have 138.6m allocated in total cap for 2019, counting dead money. 

That seems to leave them with about 57-61m in cap space next year, depending on the final numbers.

Let me translate this to Mike Brown thought process.

$195M
minus $139M from current contracts
equals $56M
minus $20M for rookie pool - higher picks means bigger rookie pool - sorry fans
equals $36M
minus $8M for injury replacements - we had lots of injuries last year, so play it safe and comfortable
equals $28M
minus $12M rollover to extend AJ Green or someone else
equals $16M
minus $12M to resign own free agents
equals $4M
minus $4M to sign player cut by other teams we can get on 1 year prove it deals.
equals all used up and Bengals have no cap space to quality free agents from other teams.


There I just wrote Hopson's future article that will be released just before free agency period opens in 2019. I might be off by a million or two here and a million or two there, but overall that's how the Hopson article will read.