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None of the above. But I'd at least think about trading him for Zach Martin.
I didn't include him because the salary cap rules basically make it almost impossible for the Patriots to trade for him this season.
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Please explain. He's a rookie with a reasonable cap hit.
romo is back so all this is moot
Yes... for Zac Martin or a 1st and a 2nd. But why are we talking about this?
The reason is that there is a fixed rookie salary cap that is based on the picks each team exercised in the draft (e.g., if you use the 1st pick in the draft, you get $X; if you use the 2nd pick you get $X – a bit, etc.).
If you trade for a rookie after the draft is over, you don't get that rookie's salary cap allotment. So they would have to fit Martin's salary cap hit into the existing rookie salary cap (essentially a cap-within-the-cap).
Interesting. I wasn't aware. Thanks for the information. But Garoppolo is also a rookie, so presumably we'd be subtracting half his cap hit. The difference in their 2014 cap hits is about $1M, which over 8 games of 2014 would work out to $500K. So you're saying that the Cowboys could find about $300K in rookie pool cap room for Garoppolo (half of his 2014 cap hit), but we couldn't find about $500K to make room for Martin? The rookie cap pool is based on the number of picks, and given that we cut 3 of our 2014 picks (Halapio, Thomas and Gallon) I would think that we would have that much space within the rookie pool.
Obviously, this is all speculative.