Current Redskins Salary Cap Status - 2008

We'd certainly have the space to lock up Campbell now. That's what I'd do if I were the GM.
I'm probably going to get crushed for saying this....but I'd wait until maybe 4-5 games into the season to make sure he's progressing in Zorn's offense and moving well on the knee. I think very highly of Campbell and we've seen flashes, but I'd wait just a bit before we make a 50M+ investment. If we were forced to roll the dice now before his agent skyrockets the price tag, I would sign him now. But if we can "kick the tires" a little more IMO that would be best.

A quick update was made to tie these numbers up to CrazyCanuck's most updated figures which reflect the Boschetti signing.

Also, a note was recently made in the Washington Post indicating that the Redskins have just guaranteed the next two season's worth of Clinton Portis's base salaries. Cap impact on this transaction is still pending.

It's now obvious, as many of us conjectured, that the Redskins had cleared the cap space necessary for the acquisition of a star receiver like Chad Johnson. When that deal did not come to fruition, the Redskins instead used their full allotment of draft picks. The Redskins' rookie pool allotment will likely be in the range of $4.5 million, leaving the team with approximately $4-5 million in excess cap space. The team is nearly certain to make use of this space in some manner. While some other player acquisitions could be forthcoming, I'd look for the Redskins to extend some key cogs of their team before training camp arrives, allowing the team to secure their players for the long term while allocating some of that bonus money to this year's cap, helping to assuage the future impact of that contract.
They'll probably also do some restructures to create dummy incentives that will apply on this year's cap and then not be achieved giving us extra cap space next year by rule.

i think most of the space will be used to make portis's contract less insane as far as future cap hits.

I agree with Sammy I am not totally convinced of Campbell. He has huge potential and now has some potnetially dangerous additions but he needs time to trhow the ball and if we have injuries on the OL we could be in trouble.

Sorry new to this and wasn't finished. All I was trying to say is I still think we need to see more consitency from Campbell before we pay the big bucks.

The rookie pool for the Skins is $4.544 million this season.

Once Lloyd clears the books, they'll have $9.8 million in space. Minus the $4.5 for the rookies, that leaves $5.3 million in space.

Look for extensions or renegotiations throughout training camp that incorporate incentives to kick more cap room into the 2009 season.

Does anyone know how much he three rookies from the second round are set to make this year? And how much money did the team save by picking these guys in the second round vs drafting one of them at 21st overall? Thanks all!

They look at what last yrs guys made at the same number and add something like 10%.

Does anyone know how much he three rookies from the second round are set to make this year? And how much money did the team save by picking these guys in the second round vs drafting one of them at 21st overall? Thanks all!

#21 is under 2mill a year, second rounders are less (1mill or less), but you can sign picks 1-15 in the first round to 6 year deals, #16-32 in the first round to 5 year deals, and everyone else to 4 year deals max (though most 4+ rounders are given 3 year deals by the skins). the year limit on rookie contracts is new as of last year or the year before i believe.

Some of the other sites are talking about Portis's restructure and that it freed up a lot of CAP space for us. Is this something new Portis did recently or are they talking about old stuff again? Something about him getting 9 mill guarenteed and 15 mill through 2010. but they never said how much cap space it freed up? If it's something new then what is our cap now?