Realstic Options Given Remaining Cap Space???

[The Lobo]

How much would it help to extend Burns? 

[bababoey]

2 hours ago, Moorgan said:

It looks like we will need 12.6 million for the draft. Factoring that in, we don’t have much available without knowing the Shaq numbers. But certainly still enough to get someone.

We don't need 12.6 million for our rookies.  During the offseason only the top 51 players count toward the cap.  So every time you add someone you take the lowest guy off.  On every team the lowest guy can be different so the rookie pool that all these site quotes never takes that into account.  But if our lowest guy was 800,000 the first pick would count toward the cap in the amount of 7,449,000 - 800,000.  In the offseason that is how the cap works.

[panthers55]

We have cap to sign anyone we want. First year contracts are cap friendly because the signing bonus serves as their year 1 salary primarily but get prorated over the life of the contract. We could theoretically pay someone for a 4 year 40 million contract with a 12 million signing bonus and a 1 million dollar base salary and our cap hit for 2023 is 4 million.  As long as the guaranteed money is controlled you can cut him after year 2 with a 6 million dead cap hit.  The same thing works for any contract. Do you always want to backload contracts?  This year yes, going forward it depends.  But we can sign who we want if we think the value justifies the cost and we don't guarantee too much which is where teams get in big trouble. And yes we have the capacity to generate more cap space if we need it. That is how the NFL works these days. That is how the Saints have more cap room than we do by what I saw last.   Constantly manipulating the cap is the expectation

[MHS831]

They will have a month to adjust the cap before signing draft picks--in fact, I think they start signing them around June 1.  So about 2 months.  I think they do what they have to do now, and then find the $13 m or so in the sofa cushions after free agency.  Remember, they also need about $4m in a slush fund to sign free agents when players go to IR.

--They will be signing a WR before turning to the draft.  We probably all know that. IMO, we need a higher end WR, so Chark, Beckham, Landry, Thielen. Hardman--

 

 

[*FreeFua*]

They can sign or trade for whoever they want

They’re taking the bulk of the cap hits next season on all these new contracts 

Fitterer has already blown through a lot of the space Panthers fans keep talking about next year 

 

[Smithers]

5 hours ago, Moorgan said:

It looks like we will need 12.6 million for the draft. Factoring that in, we don’t have much available without knowing the Shaq numbers. But certainly still enough to get someone.

Right now our top 51 cutoff is 870k.  So essentially that round 5 pick won’t count against the cap. 

[bababoey]

8 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Right now our top 51 cutoff is 870k.  So essentially that round 5 pick won’t count against the cap. 

And the bottom 4th pick only cost 20 k against the cap.  So draft will probably only cost 8 or 9 million against the cap.

[Smithers]

8 minutes ago, bababoey said:

And the bottom 4th pick only cost 20 k against the cap.  So draft will probably only cost 8 or 9 million against the cap.

Yep.  Could be even less depending on who is sent to the PS.  Several PS candidates are making 1M this year.  That would raise the threshold for the top 51.  

[bababoey]

35 minutes ago, Smithers said:

Yep.  Could be even less depending on who is sent to the PS.  Several PS candidates are making 1M this year.  That would raise the threshold for the top 51.  

The practice squad is not established until the season starts when all 53 players count against the cap.  And every player on the practice squad makes the same I think.  It's like 150 or 160 k or something like that.

And all thoes guy count toward the cap as well

[The Lobo]

Cooks just got traded for a 5th (I think), surely we can get one of Jeudy, Sutton or DHop? 

[Evil Hurney]

The top FA WR are gone for $11M/yr this season. Anyone left in FA should cost less and is not viewed a long term WR1. Prudent teams will likely wait for A) FA asking price to come down, B) a WR they like falling to them in the draft, or C) another team to oversign/overdraft at WR and be forced to give a WR away (ala Amari Cooper).

Spotrac has DJ Chark estimated for $9.5M/year and Mecole Hardman for $10.3M/year. Is that a reasonable pay rate for an at best WR2 (in the teams eyes)? Cap wise either can fit since you can always account for their paycheck in a later season.

Also keep in mind that TE Hurst is a receiver signing. The team didn't have to pay WR prices though. It's one of the ways the Chiefs hacked together a useable receiving core; paying their top guy TE money.

[Bear Hands]

Trade for Brandon Aiyuk.