Lord_Reginald_III
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The number that's compelling to me is the Arizona Cardinals' number. They have to do something, and other than trading Boldin I just don't see what their options are. And the Eagles have plenty to sign him to an extension, plus he fills a need that will make them great. I don't see how Arizona can come out of the post-draft period with that little money. One of those interesting little side stories to watch -- but I bet the Cards will ultimately send him to Philly, and, in the process, make another NFC team a major force to be reckoned with. Such is the cap.
I was under the impression that teams were allocated a certain amount based on the specific slots in the draft as well. However, after reading this (near the bottom) from Miguel's cap page, it reads to me that there is not any additional room under the cap for having those extra draft picks.Don't teams get a rookie allocation of extra cap space, to sign their rookies?
As I remember it, more draft picks = more money alloted to you. This is to keep teams with lots of picks from having to cut veterans to afford rookies.
This is handed out after the draft and it also would mean that we can spend all of that cap space left on veterans.
Am I completely remembering this wrong or what?
Miguel.... HELP!
From ESPN.Com's Len Pasquarelli: "The rookie pool is, essentially, a cap within a salary cap. It represents the maximum in aggregate salary cap value that a team is permitted to invest in its draft choices and also the undrafted free agents it signs. It is included in, not exclusive of, the team's overall spending limit ... .."Because of the so-called "rule of 51" -- which stipulates that only the 51 highest-paid players on a team's roster count against its salary cap during the offseason -- clubs will not have to carve out the entire difference between their available cap space and rookie pool allocation. For the most part, teams' middle- and low-round draft choices don't rate among the 51 highest-paid players on the roster and make no dent in the salary cap."
All depends on their cap numbers, or more specifically how much of a signing bonus that is still on the books and gets accelerated on to this year's cap.If a number of rookies make the team, isn't that a substantial savings due to those players that are cut, or is that already taken into account when we say so much money for the rookies? Or is it too hard to say as it depends on which players are cut?
I was under the impression that teams were allocated a certain amount based on the specific slots in the draft as well. However, after reading this (near the bottom) from Miguel's cap page, it reads to me that there is not any additional room under the cap for having those extra draft picks.
The name and number that stands out is Edgerrin James, at $6.75 million; for some reason I was under the impression he had already been released.
None of those players are getting cut.