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AlbaNY_Ram
The next column over shows just over $34M in dead money. That has to be added to cap spending to get the actual cap value. The Rams are at $220M according to overthecap.
Of course. But they won't be carrying 65 or 64 players either when the cap counts. As I understand the top-51 rule, from the start of the new NFL league year in early March until the first week of the regular NFL season in September, only the 51 most expensive contracts actually count against a team’s salary cap.
So on the one hand yes obviously they have to reduce that 220 M number.
But on the other hand they are going to have more than 53 on the roster from now through camp etc. So a lot of that 220 will eventually get subtracted by cuts. Right now they have 64 or 65 players on the roster (over.the.cap says 64, NFLPA says 65). Soon they will have up to 90 M. The first week in Sept. they have to have 53.
In the meanwhile all that counts against the cap is the Top 51.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2021 05:34AM by zn.
