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Should we sign anyone else or roll the cap space to next year?


panther4life

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Right now we have 41 players under contract for 2014.

Many of them are not guaranteed a roster spot even this year. Such as:

Michael Avila

Lamont Bryant

Nick Hixson

Nelson Rosario

Justin wells

James shaw

Tauren Poole

Nate chandler

Hayworth hicks

Russell Anderson

Colin Jones

Douglas Houge

Frank kearse

Mario Addison

Armond Smith

Sione Fua

Harkuki Nakumara

Keohloa Pilares

That's 18 right there.

Add in players like Beason, Williams and hangartner who's contracts will likely force them to be cut next year and that brings the total up to 21. ( granted they could restructure and stay).

If none of these players are on the opening day roster we would only have 25 players under contract in 14:

Cam Newton

Luke Kuechly

Star Lotulelei

Charles Johnson

Steve Smith

Jonathan Stewart

Ryan Kalil

Greg Olsen

Charles Godfrey

Thomas Davis

Mike Tolbert

Dwan Edwards

Amini Silatolu

Frank Alexander

Josh Thomas

Josh Norman

Joe Adams

D.J Campbell

Kawann Short

Edmund Kugbilla

A.J Klein

Kenjon Barner

Of course we will not cut everyone mentioned and we should have a draft class of 6 deep in in 14 as well to bring the total to 31 at minimum. Bottom line is we will have roughly 15-22 roster spots to fill for 2014.

For comparison we let 9 free agents walk this year and cut 3 others. We basically replaced those 12 with

7 free agents from other teams and our 5 draft picks.

I'm just wondering if we are better off carrying over any unused cap space from this year to provide us more flexibility in free agency next year.

Thoughts?

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