The cap is going up from $182.5M to $208M, an increase of $25.5M.
And all the dead money for Goff ($24.7M) and Gurley ($8.4M) come off the books after this year. Another $33.1M.
So, yeah, the Rams' cap position improves by $58.6M from 2021 to 2022. But those 6 salaries I mentioned add over $73M to the cap, an net loss of around $14.4M in cap space from '21 to '22.
And not surprisingly, [
overthecap.com] says the Rams are currently $14.6M over the cap for 2022.
Expect several restructures and extensions in the offseason to create a lot of cap space, but not enough to keep everyone from this list that I would want to keep.
These are the Rams' FAs this year. Assuming the Rams can create around $40M in cap space, who do you really think the Rams can afford to keep?
Von Miller
Darious Williams
Sony Michel
Austin Corbett
Odell Beckham Jr.
Buddy Howell
Johnny Mundt
Donte Deayon
Joseph Noteboom
Jamil Demby
Coleman Shelton
Brian Allen
Travin Howard
Matt Gay
Juju Hughes
Ogbonnia Okoronkwo
J.J. Koski
Sebastian Joseph
John Wolford
Troy Reeder
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