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[WeezyBengal]

(Yesterday, 12:11 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: IDK where you are getting that from. This is literally copied from spitrac: 

2025 Draft Pool
Projected cap hits for upcoming draft picks. These placeholder figures are NOT being factored into any total salary cap allocations.

Why do you think the draft pool cost is factored in?

Drafted players will eventually take the place of guys that are on the current team. They are REPLACING salaries, not adding to them. You can only have a certain amount of guys on a roster. 

I always crack up when Hobson spews things about needing money for the "draft pool". No, you don't. Those salaries are basically already being accounted for in the current cap. 

[*ochocincos*]

With the Chase and Higgins extensions, Bengals now sit at $20.5 mill cap space, according to Spotrac.
However, that does not factor in the Lucas Patrick 1-year deal of $2.1 mill, which should bring the cap down to around $18.4 mill.

Note that Spotrac has already projected the Bengals' draft picks to allocate ~$5.3 mill toward the Top-51 cap hit, but it is NOT being factored into any total salary cap allocations.

If that's factored in, Bengals still would have about $13 mill left to work with.

There SHOULD be enough there for them to sign one more FA (another Guard?) and still have $5-10 mill or more reserved for extensions (of Hendrickson?) and injury later in the year.

Thoughts?
Have the Bengals managed their cap well, or could/should they have done more in FA?

(Personally, I think it fits into what the Bengals like to do around the cap, but I think they could have done more and structured the extensions of Chase and Higgins differently to have allowed for a bigger impact at G/DT)

[*Synric*]

If feels like the Bengals think their big defensive offseason investment was the Staff. They only added a rotation nose tackle (they absolutely needed), a backup linebacker, and re-signed their own draft picks with history of injuries & under performing. They are really betting on their new coaches to develop their former picks and likely upcoming picks especially in the trenches on both sides.


I would have liked to have seen the Bengals maximize the Chase and Tee contracts better so they could have fit a 1 year deal in for preforming veterans looking for a ring like Khalil Mack.

[Luvnit2]

(Yesterday, 12:11 PM)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: IDK where you are getting that from. This is literally copied from spitrac: 

2025 Draft Pool
Projected cap hits for upcoming draft picks. These placeholder figures are NOT being factored into any total salary cap allocations.

Why do you think the draft pool cost is factored in?

I stand corrected. I just went and checked, you are correct and I was wrong. TY for clarifying.

[Isaac Curtis: The Real #85]

(Yesterday, 10:38 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I stand corrected. I just went and checked, you are correct and I was wrong. TY for clarifying.

No worries. It is confusing AF. 

I still have no idea what the "total roster allocations" is. They have that at $5 mil i stead of $20. 

The PS ($3-4) + the draft picks ($8-$9 mil) + the last two spots $2 mil) was a reasonable guess. But that is not how the cap hit for the picks comes out, because if you are starting with a top 51, you have to subtract out the already baked in cost of the guys they are displacing/replacing on the roster/cap projections.

But anyway, I just think they are adding up all the contracts (70 or so) in the offseason. I could be wrong, but that is all I can think of.