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CROMWELL21
Rams are projected salary cap by Sportac website, after Ogletree signing to have 43.9 million under the cap. This includes a five million dollar rollover from last year the Rams chose not to employee.
The following players would have the following cap savings if cut (although each would create "dead money", the savings is the amount over dead money saved):
Quinn-11.4 million
Barron-7.0 million
Saffold-6.5 million
Whitworth-6.3 million
Brockers-4.2 million
Austin-3.0 million
Gurley-2.3 million.
Quinn will have to take a cut and Barron and Saffold would be easy restructures. We would have nearly 60 million dollars.
I believe Donald, Joyner and Watkins could easily fit.
Additionally the Rams would be getting potentially two third or fourth round compensatory picks in 2019 if Watkins and TruJo are deemed expendable in free agency.
They're not going to cut or re-structure all those guys. Teams just don;t go around doing massive re-structures that way with several players at once,. In fact, really, the one person there who is in danger is Quinn. Maybe Austin though doing that only saves 3 M. Barron and Saffold? Highly unlikely I think.
And they don;t need to cut or re-structure all those guys anyway.
For one thing, and it's key, when talking about new contracts, like Donald's, you don't measure available cap space by the year of the deal. You add in the next year. The Rams can park a huge cap hit in the year AFTER the contract. In fact they have already done that a few times before, So in this case, to sign Donald in 2018, they can use 2019 cap space.
As it stands right now, they have 90+ M available in 2019, and that's before doing something like cutting Quinn, which would add another 13 M (actually just under that).
The Rams don;'t have cap issues.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/11/2017 06:02AM by zn.
