it;s actually kind of simple

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If I remember correctly, a team has to have enough salary cap room to cover their draft picks.
According to the sites, we're $5-$6 million over the cap, which means we need to clear about $10 million before (I'm assuming) Friday night.

Should we be expecting some sort of move within the next 24-48 hours? Trading Havenstein (for instance) would only net us around $6 million.

I don't know if cap sites are counting the contracts of either Floyd and Robinson. As I understand it they actually have not officially signed yet, though they have agreements in place. In fact they haven't even done physicals yet, for obvious reasons.Cap sites might also not yet be counting the June 1st relief they get from Gurley, plus the offsets they could get from Gurley and Matthews.

Rich Hammond talks about this. He was directly asked about the contracts for Floyd and Robinson. He said: "the contracts haven't been signed. They have agreed to terms but neither side is bound, as far as I know."

And of course they're waiting on Gurley too. His June 1 alteration gives them 5 M right there.

It's also murky whether or not they can get some June 1st relief for Cooks.

And of course at any time, they can re-structure Goff or Donald and convert salary to bonus money. I know they've said they don't want to do that, but, the big surprise was getting Brockers back, which is something they did not count on.

And then there's what Albany says about accounting with the rookie cap. [ramsrule.com]

I said it was simple...how is that simple? Simple. What's being counted right now as their cap space and where it will officially stand once all the dust settles are 2 different things.

They will be tight but this "over the cap now" thing is just not a real number. There's lots of balls in the air and no actual problem.

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