Cap update

[Irish Greg 2.0]

Per OTC: Sam Darnold's cap hit for this season is only $13.4 million. Cooper Kupp is at $9.3 million. Demarcus Lawrence is $7.6 million.

All of those are very favorable for cap purposes.

The Seahawks currently have roughly $36 million in available cap space.

[River Dog]

Isn't there a cap floor, too? I wonder how far away from it that we are.

[c_hawkbob]

From the Sam Darnold thread:

What Happens to Unused Salary Cap?
NFL teams are allowed to roll over any unused cap space from one season to the next. Teams must tell the league they plan to roll over cap space by 4 p.m. ET on the day after their regular-season finale.

While the NFL has a salary cap, it also has a salary floor, so teams cannot hold onto money perpetually. Teams must spend at least 89% of the cap over a four-year period, while the NFL as a whole must spend at least 95% of the cap.

If a team fails to reach the 89% threshold, it will be forced to pay the difference to players who were on its roster during those four years. However, no NFL team has been penalized in this manner in recent memory.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/how- ... least%2095%%20of%20the%20cap.

[NorthHawk]

From that $36M the team still has to pay for the Rookie class and Practice Squad players. But that should still leave a good chunk of change to add others that have been cut and overpay them like we did with Josh Jones who last year go $1.8M and was signed by Seattle for $4M Cap hit this year. It's a pattern we've seen before with Schneider - bottom feed and overpay.