Late last week linebacker Lavonte David signed a huge contract extension that certainly caught the attention of people. Playing at the generally underappreciated non-rush outside linebacker position, David not only set the market, he obliterated it. At just over $10 million a season David would earn nearly $1.6 million more a year than DeAndre Levy […]
June 2nd has finally arrived and the accounting rules for the remainder of the season are now changed. From this point forward any player on a multi year contract who is released will only have his current years proration remain on the salary cap in 2017 with any future money being dumped into the 2018 […]
1. Elvis Dumervil, Ravens Cap Saved: $6 million/Cash Saved: $6 million Two years ago Dumervil had 17 sacks and was an All Pro selection, but his performance has plummeted since making the turn past 30. His sack total dropped to 6 in 2015, his lowest figure since 2008, and finished with just 3 sacks this […]
Current Estimated 2016 Cap Space: $23.9 million Expected 2016 Cap Space: $41.7 million Estimated Rookie Cap: $6.981 million
The following table displays the likelihood of each player with a salary cap number of $2 million or more remaining under contract for 2016, as calculated by Expected Contract Value 2.0. Pay cuts and retirements are considered releases for purposes of Expected Contract Value. Players subject to 5th year team options of rookie contracts are not […]
I was out of the country for a few weeks, and in that time a number of noteworthy players signed large contract extensions. Today I will provide the Expected Contract Values for those contracts, as well as some notes on the contract characteristics.
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 […]