Salary cap #'s as of 3/30/12

[MoLewisrocks]

For all 32 teams. Shows NE at $9.9M in cap space and that should include all signings/cuts/restructures to date since all have been announced and therefore officially filed with the league.

Team-by-team cap room, as of March 30 | ProFootballTalk

 

[BTTA]

And about half of that is for rookies, true? Even after the rookie signings push a few vets out of the top 51, but the impact of that is uncertain because some of them may carry dead cap money.

 

[Ring 6]

And about half of that is for rookies, true? Even after the rookie signings push a few vets out of the top 51, but the impact of that is uncertain because some of them may carry dead cap money.

Rookie will be less, more like 2.5mill or so because of the Top 51 rule.

 

[BlueThunder]

If Matt Light retires, does that add another 5 Mil?

 

[ausbacker]

Seattle and Kansas City could become very good if they spend the rest of their cap wisely.

 

[patsfaninpa]

Sure smells like a draft day trade. But, who knows?

 

[mgteich]

at least

Also, Wilfork and/or Mayo could restructure freeing up a bit of cap monies.

If Matt Light retires, does that add another 5 Mil?

 

[jason423]

I dont believe those numbers include the Ochocinco salary change. I had been within a few 100K and now am about 2 million off so I think its that. I know as of today those were still not filed with the players association. Likely means that they were not officially filed yet with the league. The only other possibility is Jerod Mayo did a small restructure. I dont think thats the case but there was a base salary change in his contract recently which sometimes can be attributed to a behind the scenes cap purpose renegotiation.

I have your estimated rookie cap at $4.874 million with a net charge of about 2.534 million.

Projecting the Year 1 NFL Rookie Allocations

 

[MoLewisrocks]

LaCanfora has more detail, some of the best I've ever seen. He has cash as well as cap spent details. There is an explanation for the teams that have less than 51 signed players shown. Apparently tenders count as money spent towards top 51 but players aren't "under contract" until they sign them. So in our case that would mean Welker's cash and cap are included although he isn't in that head count (hence our 50 under contract).

New England Patriots
Current contracts: 50
Previous year carryover: $6,987,262.00
Adjustments: $1,404,600.00
Adjusted cap: $128,991,862.00
Team cap: $119,047,198.00
Cap room: $9,944,664.00
Team cash: $106,696,147.00

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[DaBruinz]

If Matt Light retires, does that add another 5 Mil?

If Light were to retire, then it would free up about $4.5 million in cap space.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

I dont believe those numbers include the Ochocinco salary change. I had been within a few 100K and now am about 2 million off so I think its that. I know as of today those were still not filed with the players association. Likely means that they were not officially filed yet with the league. The only other possibility is Jerod Mayo did a small restructure. I dont think thats the case but there was a base salary change in his contract recently which sometimes can be attributed to a behind the scenes cap purpose renegotiation.

I have your estimated rookie cap at $4.874 million with a net charge of about 2.534 million.

Projecting the Year 1 NFL Rookie Allocations

Thanks Jason. I noticed the other day you haven't removed Polite who was cut when we signed two other FB's (Tony Fiamatta and Spencer Larson) and you also don't have Branch whose contract details haven't been released yet. All we've heard is it's a one year deal with no guaranteed money. Could be that's at a higher rate than some anticipated.

Reiss just tweeted details on Branch.

Mike Reiss?@MikeReiss

Salary note: Deion Branch's 1-yr. deal has $925,000 base salary, $250,000 signing bonus, $150,000 workout bonus, plus $250,000 in incentives

As Mike noted, $400K up front suggests that they anticipate he makes the roster...

 

[Raymond]

Pats 9.9 mil
Colts 10.6

Someone tell me why Indy only has 700k more than the Pats when they dumped every high priced player on the roster. How is this possible?

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Thanks Jason. I noticed the other day you haven't removed Polite who was cut when we signed two other FB's (Tony Fiamatta and Spencer Larson) and you also don't have Branch whose contract details haven't been released yet. All we've heard is it's a one year deal with no guaranteed money. Could be that's at a higher rate than some anticipated.

Thanks to you and Jason and others who know a lot more about the Cap than I do. I got a little confused by the discussion.

To review the bidding, the pats cap is $9.9 with Light on the Roster and as much as $4.5 higher if he retires?

 

[ctpatsfan77]

at least

Also, Wilfork and/or Mayo could restructure freeing up a bit of cap monies.

Mayo can't restructure until 12 months after the extension was filed.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Pats 9.9 mil
Colts 10.6

Someone tell me why Indy only has 700k more than the Pats when they dumped every high priced player on the roster. How is this possible?

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Pats 9.9 mil
Colts 10.6

Someone tell me why Indy only has 700k more than the Pats when they dumped every high priced player on the roster. How is this possible?

Look at their cash spent. About $20M less. We've spent some cash up front in restructuring Tom, Mayo's option bonus, signing bonus for several of the FA acquisitions. Indy is letting their cap pay for the team this season. And dead cap is absorbing several of their departures on whom they previously spent a lot of cash including $10M+ on Manning alone - that's as much as our entire dead cap. They don't have much elite or high priced talent left, just Freeney whom the cap is paying backend salary on and Mathis whom they extended. Don't think he or Wayne got a ton of up front money.

 

[patfanken]

So basically at this point we definitely have $10MM in cap money, or as much as around $12MM if Jason is right about the league not counting Ocho's new contract. If we add the approximately $4MM we'd get if Light retires, we can can sum it up that the Pats currently have between $10-12MM in cap space, which could increase to $14-16MM in the next month. (I'm assuming Light will make a definitive decision before the draft out of consideration to the team)

Now the question is what do we do with the money. There is certainly enough to add one significant contract and a few others. But I'm not sure who is out there to grab. For that reason, I'm guessing that the next major announcement that Pats make will be to let us know that they have extended someone other than Welker

All I know right now that the Pats have signed the most FA's (12) in the league and are in great shape to pretty much do what ever they need to do in FA.

 

[Ring 6]

LaCanfora has more detail, some of the best I've ever seen. He has cash as well as cap spent details. There is an explanation for the teams that have less than 51 signed players shown. Apparently tenders count as money spent towards top 51 but players aren't "under contract" until they sign them. So in our case that would mean Welker's cash and cap are included although he isn't in that head count (hence our 50 under contract).

New England Patriots
Current contracts: 50
Previous year carryover: $6,987,262.00
Adjustments: $1,404,600.00
Adjusted cap: $128,991,862.00
Team cap: $119,047,198.00
Cap room: $9,944,664.00
Team cash: $106,696,147.00

NFL.com Blogs » Blog Archive Salary cap situations for each team «

Ravens look in trouble with only 42 players under contract and 1.7 mill of cap room, if I am reading this right.
Pitt also is light on players and only 5-6mill to spend.

 

[DaBruinz]

Pats 9.9 mil
Colts 10.6

Someone tell me why Indy only has 700k more than the Pats when they dumped every high priced player on the roster. How is this possible?

Because of the dead cap space from Peyton Manning's contract.

 

[jason423]

Thanks Jason. I noticed the other day you haven't removed Polite who was cut when we signed two other FB's (Tony Fiamatta and Spencer Larson) and you also don't have Branch whose contract details haven't been released yet. All we've heard is it's a one year deal with no guaranteed money. Could be that's at a higher rate than some anticipated.

Reiss just tweeted details on Branch.



As Mike noted, $400K up front suggests that they anticipate he makes the roster...

I put Branch up on the site today and actually have placeholders in for the other players in my spreadsheets, I just dont have them uploaded yet. They are included in the number I put on the site though. Fiametta is a 1 year deal with a base of 615K and Larsen is a 2 year deal with a base this year of 700K. I cant imagine either got much of a signing bonus. When I put them up today or tomorrow Ill probably run with an estimate of 40K for Fiametta which puts him in line with Cole and just under Allen and put Larsen something closer to Koutouvides with a bonus around 75K or so.