Each offseason a number of players agree to simple restructures of their contracts designed to free up cap room for their respective teams in the present year. These cap-driven restructures involve converting base salary (or roster bonus) to signing bonus, with the converted amount then prorated over the remaining years on the contract (up to […]
I’ve already explained how much sense the Chris Hogan move made from the Patriots perspective as he’s the perfect kind of undervalued player with potential that the Patriots have always been able to find under Bill Belichick. But yesterday, March 15th, was an absolutely quintessential Patriots day as they traded defensive end Chandler Jones to […]
I ran across this great video of Wayne Chrebet today and it sparked this thought that I’ll talk about here, but be elaborating on further in an article that I’m writing that will also be one of the final chapters of Caponomics. Belichick has his own formula for his dynasty and that article/chapter will be […]
The official list of the compensatory picks for the 2016 NFL Draft came in about 10 days early this year, and I am quite happy with how it compared with my own projection. As always, here is the post-mortem evaluation to see what I got right and wrong, and what I can improve upon.
Now that the deluge of free agency signings is behind us, this gives me a moment to comment on something that was discussed during that deluge. The Dolphins rescinded the transition tag that they had originally placed on Olivier Vernon. Adam Schefter generating the prevailing reason among the media as to why: Dolphins pulled transition […]
Today was a crazy day in the NFL with the franchise tag deadline coming at 4PM. All told we had 10 players get tagged, a few major releases, and a big signing by the Eagles. Let’s recap todays action.The Tagged Players Von Miller– The Broncos used the exclusive tag on Von Miller to completely block […]
Current Estimated 2016 Cap Space: $210,000 Expected 2016 Cap Space: $16.6 million Estimated Rookie Cap: $4.880 million