Wolfdogg tantalizing restructuring possibilities: Cameron DaSilva nailed it for me

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The rams can create about 21 million by restructuring stafford and releasing allen and young.

Cameron DaSilva of RAMSWIRE nailed it for me today.

"Summary of DaSilva's article"

They entered the week more than $33 million over the salary cap, needing to get under the $182.5 million limit by Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET. They did just that, announcing they were under the cap on Tuesday afternoon.

Now that Matthew Stafford’s contract is officially on the books, Michael Brockers is gone and Leonard Floyd’s cap hits have been established, where do the Rams stand in terms of spending money?

After Aaron Donald, Cooper Kupp or Andrew Whitworth, who all reportedly restructured their deals before the deadline, that now gives the Rams approximately $7.65 million in cap space.

According to OTC’s salary cap calculator. With $7.65 million to spend, it would put them 19th in the NFL in terms of estimated cap space, up from where they currently were at (31st).

The Rams must leave some room for their rookie class, of course.

Over The Cap estimates that the Rams’ effective cap space needed to sign their draft class is only $1.02 million. That’s calculated by multiplying their total number of picks (6) by $660,000, and subtracting that sum from the total rookie pool of $4,981,056.

So if you subtract $1.02 million from their estimated cap space of $7.65 million, you get $6.63 million in spending money as of now. It’s not much, but it puts them in better shape than they were in to begin the week.

Now, the question becomes, what’s next? How can the Rams create even more cap space to sign free agents?

They can start by either extending Stafford’s contract or simply restructuring it. Restructuring would clear about $12.3 million this year, which would put the Rams close to $19 million in effective cap space.

They could also cut Kenny Young to save another $2.18 million, putting them over $20 million in cap space.

There aren’t many ways left for the Rams to create cap space, but as they stand right now, they have enough money to sign a few more free agents, as well as their draft class. Just don’t expect a big splash in free agency.

[theramswire.usatoday.com]