Its not often that the first cutdown day in the NFL brings with it much news, but over the last 24 hours there have been a few moves with cap implications and there may be more to come as teams need to reach 75 players by Tuesday at 4PM. I’ll keep this as a running […]
There are a number of ways to look at roster construction in the NFL, and Nick recently did a great job with his roster texture charts(which you should read if you haven’t already), but today I wanted to look to see how teams really derive their value when they build a roster. Normally when we […]
[adsenseyu1] Estimated 2015 Cap Space: -$300k ($140M cap limit)Roster Overview Players Under Contract: 58 Pro Bowlers: 2 Unrestricted Free Agents: 12(6 with 50%+ playtime) Draft Selection: 14 Salary Cap Breakdown Free Agents to Re-sign Jared Odrick has developed into a solid, all around talent and should be able to give Miami a solid presence for […]
[adsenseyu1] With 2013 rapidly drawing to a close we will soon get our first look at one of the new provisions in the CBA- the 5th Year Option for first rounders drafted in 2011. The 2011 CBA agreement limited all contracts to a period of four years, including those of first round draft picks. In […]
With the Pro Bowl rosters now finalized I’ll do our annual financial assessment of the rosters. While the Pro Bowl is certainly not the best measure of who are the best players in the NFL it can at least help us look at some trends among those who receive votes. The average annual salary of […]
The Steelers possess six contracts – Timmons, Brown, Pouncey, Miller, Mitchell and Gilbert – that include more prorated signing bonus in 2016 than scheduled at the time of signing due to cap-related restructurings, a number that few teams can match. The team’s salary cap management approach clearly skews toward maximizing the current roster at the […]
Due to the fact that rosters will remain mostly static between now and the preseason, I thought that this would be a good time to provide an update as to the status of the players for whom we provided a 2015 expected outcome earlier in the offseason. As a reminder, we ran the Expected Contract […]