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While I agree with your general opinion that McCourty will likely make the team, the reality is that the Pats have given him nothing more than a 350k roster bonus that kicked in the day after he signed.I doubt the Pats would have spent 3m on McCourty to put him on the bench.
He has a zero dead cap hit, and would save the team almost 3m dollars if he doesn’t make the squad. He’s in the same boat as guys like Cordarelle Patterson, Jordan Matthews, Eric Rowe, Mike Gilleslee, Dwayne Allen, Philip Dorsett, Geno Grissom, etc. Any of them can easily be cut with absolutely no dead cap hit.