Roster Cutdown Cap Tidbit

[Miguel]

As we come down to cutdown days, you will hear how teams will need cap space for the 8 practice squad players, players on PUP, and players on IR and players 52 and 53. What you will not likely hear is that as teams get down to their 53-man rosters they will be creating cap space as lower-salaried players beat out more expensive players for roster spots.

For example, in Derek Haven's latest roster projection
Patriots 53-Man Roster Projection 2.0 erek's Patriots Blog

11 players whose salaries are not currently counting against the cap make the team displacing 11 players with higher salaries.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Nice reminder. Stuff like this and the in season PUP rule should be a READ ME sticky on this site.

 

[Bruins29]

Regarding the roster prediction - Why would anyone suggest cutting Mark Harrison? Keep him on PUP and in 6 weeks you have a fresh player ready to prove himself, especially if another WR gets hurt. If everyone else is healthy you IR him.

I still can't understand why anyone would suggest or think that the Patriots would PUP Gronk. I just dont see it.

Also, where is Jake Ballard? No mention of him at all, on the roster, being cut or anything. Did the writer forget he is in camp?