2020 Salary Cap After Dalton cut

[SErebel11]

(05-03-2020, 11:02 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Spotrac shows is with almost 26 million dollars after we pay all the rookies.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/cap/

CINCINNATI BENGALS CAP TOTALS

• Adjusted Salary Cap
  $208,447,093
• Active Contracts:
  
  The sum of all active player cap figures
  
  $189,765,639Dead Cap:
• $9,374,988
  
  Draft Pool Cap:
• $11,873,031
  
  2019 Rollover:
• $10,247,093
  
  Total (All):
• $199,140,627
  
  Total (Top 51):
• $182,695,627
  
  Est. Cap Space (All):
• $9,306,466
  
  Est. Cap Space (Top 51):
• $25,751,466
  
  

Why not add a guy like Clowney? We have more money han both Seattle and Tenn. who supposed to be the front runners

How should we spend the Dalton savings in 2020

I think this is incorrect for 2 reasons.

Adjusted Salary Cap

$208,447,093
this number has the 2019 rollover included in it as I understand it. It appears spotrac is considering it twice.

dead cap figure is 9,374,988

You cannot figure in the rookie contracts as $11,873,031. That is incorrect.
For instance, the current top 51 probably has a guy making around 610,000 but once Burrow is signed and his cap number is  $6,580,025.00. Because his cap number is more then it boots off the 610,000 dollar salary making it a net add to the top 51 of $5,970,025.00. So for every pick that gets added to the top 51 that adds less to the top 51 than the rookie contract makes it look like. Realistically, if all 7 picks get added it takes the actual net difference down by the salaries of the bottom 7 of the top 51.

That is why I did the post tonight with every salary included so I could get a round about on the actual top 51 with rookie salary cap hits included and came up with roughly $17,823,000 in current cap space once the rookie deals are signed.