Salary Cap Status 2025

[Schneed10]

Away we go. Figures courtesy of Over The Cap.

Available space at start: $82.0M

Moves reflected on OTC:

Trade for Deebo Samuel ($17.5M)
Release Jonathan Allen $16.4M
Resign Zach Ertz ($6.25M)
Resign Zane Gonzalez ($1.2M)
Tender Chris Rodriguez ($1.0M)

Current available space per OTC: $72.4M

Other moves reported:

Resign Bobby Wagner ($8M)
Resign Tress Way ($2.8M)
Trade for Laremy Tunsil ($21.3M)
Resign John Bates ($2.5M) estimate
Sign Javon Kinlaw ($7M) estimate
Net Impact of Rule of 51: $2.4M

Current available space: $33.3M

[mredskins]

thanks S10 always hopeful

[Chico23231]

Nice update! Thanks

[AnonEmouse]

Allen's salary all guaranteed? 😐 I'm guessing, but I'd expect Deebo's deal to be re-worked post draft once they have a better picture of the roster and how he's likely to perform.

I'd say Garrett would be a great pick up, but he'd chew up a lot of that and/or into the next few years. Hendrickson's deal would probably be easier to swallow?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by AnonEmouse

Allen's salary all guaranteed? 😐 I'm guessing, but I'd expect Deebo's deal to be re-worked post draft once they have a better picture of the roster and how he's likely to perform.

I'd say Garrett would be a great pick up, but he'd chew up a lot of that and/or into the next few years. Hendrickson's deal would probably be easier to swallow?

When you see a move listed as having positive numbers, it means it's adding/creating more cap space. Allen's $16.4M figure presented above means cutting him created $16.4M in cap space.

Negative numbers, presented with brackets around them, indicate the move cost the Ders that much in cap space.

[Schneed10]

OP updated for the resignings of P Tress Way for one year $2.8M and TE John Bates for three years, terms unknown so I've provided my wild ass guess of cap cost at $2.5M. I'll update once we know terms.

[That Guy]

new wrinkle in insured contracts... was allen's contract insured? if so, there's a cap rebate for the time he missed. (cleveland insured DW's contract, so they're getting space back from the time he missed. I wonder if he magically breaks an acl in preseason...)

[AnonEmouse]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

When you see a move listed as having positive numbers, it means it's adding/creating more cap space. Allen's $16.4M figure presented above means cutting him created $16.4M in cap space.

Negative numbers, presented with brackets around them, indicate the move cost the Ders that much in cap space.

👍

Makes sense now.

[Schneed10]

OP updated for the acquisition of Javon Kinlaw where I wild ass guessed at the cap hit and called it $7M. And the acquisition of Laremy Tunsil (!), whose contract will carry $21.3M on the Ders books for 2025 and 2026.

More cap space could be freed if he's extended.

[Hoglips]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

OP updated for the acquisition of Javon Kinlaw where I wild ass guessed at the cap hit and called it $7M. And the acquisition of Laremy Tunsil (!), whose contract will carry $21.3M on the Ders books for 2025 and 2026.

More cap space could be freed if he's extended.

I'm seeing Kinlaw's deal reported as 3Y/45M with 30M guaranteed. Ugh ... your estimate seemed much more reasonable. I guess that the team sees something that I don't in his resume.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Hoglips

I'm seeing Kinlaw's deal reported as 3Y/45M with 30M guaranteed. Ugh ... your estimate seemed much more reasonable. I guess that the team sees something that I don't in his resume.

Both things can be true, my estimate of $7.5M was right on the money, it turned out.

His contract is for three years and $45M as reported. It included $16.5M in signing bonus, $1.3M in guaranteed salary in 2025, and $12.2M in guaranteed salary next year in 2026. So that's where the $30M guaranteed comes from, those three things add up to $30M.

The last year of the deal is not guaranteed, his salary would be $12.9M that season if he remains with us. He's got other roster bonuses and workout bonuses, but that's the gist of the deal.

His cap hits will be:

2025: $7.5M ($5.5M for the prorated signing bonus, $1.3M for the guaranteed salary, and $700K in other little bonuses)

2026: $18.4M ($5.5M for the prorated signing bonus, $12.2M for the guaranteed salary, and $700K in other little bonuses)

2027: $19.1M ($5.5M for the prorated signing bonus, $12.9M for non-guaranteed salary, and $700K for other little bonuses)

So you can see a contract reported at an average annual value of $15M per, but engineer the deal such that the cap hit is lower in the first year and higher in the out years, as they've done here.

I feel like it's 15 years ago and I'm on here with CrazyCanuck explaining salary cap 101.

[Schneed10]

The Washington Commanders have been penalized $25M in cap space for violations of select articles of the collective bargaining agreement. The instances involved the contracts of defensive ends Chase Young and Montez Sweat who were traded shortly after the ownership change to Josh Harris. The contracts of Young and Sweat included trade-restriction clauses agreed to by former owner Dan Snyder that resulted in the acceleration of bonuses that put the team over the 2023 salary cap in November and thereafter.

Ian Rapoport

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

The Washington Commanders have been penalized $25M in cap space for violations of select articles of the collective bargaining agreement. The instances involved the contracts of defensive ends Chase Young and Montez Sweat who were traded shortly after the ownership change to Josh Harris. The contracts of Young and Sweat included trade-restriction clauses agreed to by former owner Dan Snyder that resulted in the acceleration of bonuses that put the team over the 2023 salary cap in November and thereafter.

Ian Rapoport

WTF? Well that is no good. That's a pretty big fuck-up.

Hoping this is an April Fool's joke.

[MTK]

Unbelievable

[88Commanders00]

That’s an AFD post.