Bills Cap Status - Approx $4.25 under cap 4/03/2024 (added roster change summary)

[jahnyc]

Yes, but given our cap situation this year, isn't this when we really needed it?  Our cap situation is better in future years (at least at this point).  No idea if the Bills have any real interest in trading Diggs this year, but the extra cap space would at least give them the flexibility to do so.

[Warriorspikes51]

The cap is just a suggestion. Like the speed limit😎🤪

[Mango]

22 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

 

Door #1  - TRADE

Door #2 -  Restructure

Door #3 -  His fashion line  

 

If Diggs is moved I think it will be post June 1. We get $19M for this season and $5M for 2025. BUT!!!  That $19M can be rolled over if we don't sign any expensive vets twisting around out there. A post June 1 trade with minimal 2024 spend would mean we could roll most of that $19M over to 2025 ultimately giving us $25M extra next year. It would go a long way in extending Taron, Rousseau, Brown, and Douglas. 

[Matt_In_NH]

13 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

The cap is just a suggestion. Like the speed limit😎🤪

To continue that analogy.  At  end of the road you will have to even up meaning at some point you will have to pull over and wait for the time to elapse to get to the finish line if you ever want to get back to even.  If you are going 6000 miles and the speed limit is 60MPH it will take you 100 hours.  So you can go 120 for the fist 50’hours but then you have to wait.   I this analogy time  is total cap over years and it assumes there is an end to it where everyone has to be even.  

Edited March 16 by Matt_In_NH

[SCBills]

52 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:

To continue that analogy.  At  end of the road you will have to even up meaning at some point you will have to pull over and wait for the time to elapse to get to the finish line if you ever want to get back to even.  If you are going 6000 miles and the speed limit is 60MPH it will take you 100 hours.  So you can go 120 for the fist 50’hours but then you have to wait.   I this analogy time  is total cap over years and it assumes there is an end to it where everyone has to be even.  

If you time it right.. you can eat a big dead cap year in a year where you draft a rookie QB .. or eat the dead cap the year after you move off your Franchise QB, be terrible, and then have a ton of cap and a high draft pick to rebuild. 
 

The Bills, Chiefs, Bengals etc won’t likely be dealing with the end of the road portion until Mahomes, Allen and Burrow are gone. 
 

 

Edited March 16 by SCBills

[Buffalo_Stampede]

 

$17.2 million cap space. Probably doesn’t include recent deals. 

 

Edited March 17 by Buffalo_Stampede

[CaptnCoke11]

19 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

 

$17.2 million cap space. Probably doesn’t include recent deals. 

 

Yeah that doesn’t include the signings of Samuel, Jones, Johnson, Morrow, Hollins.  So it’s probably half that if not a little less 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

10 minutes ago, CaptnCoke11 said:

Yeah that doesn’t include the signings of Samuel, Jones, Johnson, Morrow, Hollins.  So it’s probably half that if not a little less 

Also doesn’t include $8 million they left on the table with Josh to use in future years. Still boggles my mind, but I’ll get over it. 

 

[Aussie Joe]

15 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Also doesn’t include $8 million they left on the table with Josh to use in future years. Still boggles my mind, but I’ll get over it. 

 

must be putting that towards the Miller Knox and Diggs redundancy plan in 2025

[SoonerBillsFan]

2 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

 

$17.2 million cap space. Probably doesn’t include recent deals. 

 

17 mill is a lot better than I expected. 

[Aussie Joe]

40 minutes ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

17 mill is a lot better than I expected. 

Doesn’t include about 6 if their new signings … so let’s see how it looks when they get added in 

[BillsFanForever19]

47 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:

Doesn’t include about 6 if their new signings … so let’s see how it looks when they get added in 

 

Exactly. It's nowhere close to that. It doesn't factor in Samuel, Jones, Hollins, Morrow, or Johnson. Even if the latter 3 are league minimum and Samuel and Jones have low cap hits in Year 1 - those signings are still going to account for 50-75% of that number.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

2 hours ago, SoonerBillsFan said:

17 mill is a lot better than I expected. 

They could’ve done more. But 2025 they will be sitting very nice.

[No_Matter_What]

6 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

$17.2 million cap space. Probably doesn’t include recent deals. 

 

Sportrac is updated and has the same numbers right now.

 

It includes Knox's cap hit lowered from $14.3M to $7.7M, and also (surprisingly) Douglas' cap hit lowered to $3.3M - it seems that they agreed to different restructure than reported before, now he has more dead cap in void years too.

 

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

 

It obviously doesn't include Morrow, Hollins, Jones, Samuel and Johnson. My guess is that they will combine for ~$15M minus $4M they will replace. So if everything is correct, we should have about $6M cap space right now.

 

However, Sportrac has something obviously wrong imo, since it shows current contracts as total of $218M but if you count them its only $215M.

Edited March 17 by No_Matter_What

[Tuco]

6 hours ago, No_Matter_What said:

Sportrac is updated and has the same numbers right now.

 

It includes Knox's cap hit lowered from $14.3M to $7.7M, and also (surprisingly) Douglas' cap hit lowered to $3.3M - it seems that they agreed to different restructure than reported before, now he has more dead cap in void years too.

 

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

 

It obviously doesn't include Morrow, Hollins, Jones, Samuel and Johnson. My guess is that they will combine for ~$15M minus $4M they will replace. So if everything is correct, we should have about $6M cap space right now.

 

However, Sportrac has something obviously wrong imo, since it shows current contracts as total of $218M but if you count them its only $215M.

Sounds about right. OTC shows $10 million and Spotrac is now at $11.1 million. Both seem to have everything now except Ty Johnson (who will be a minimal hit compared to the 51st guy he replaces) and Curtis Samuel. At 3 years $24 million Samuel's first year is probably around $4 - $5 million. So $6M-ish sounds good.

[GASabresIUFan]

I have updated the OP to reflect all the updates except Johnson and Samuel.   They have us at 11.15 in cap as mentioned up thread.  Great catch, by the way, on the change in Douglas’ contract.  I was wonder where the extra $3 million came from.  
 

 

[ColoradoBills]

Beane has got a lot more done this season than I expected.  Need a great draft.

 

I was thinking he would be high on signing someone after June 1st, but if the roster is looking good at that point he may just

roll over some of that money to offset the big dead cap for Von Miller (and Diggs?) coming due next spring.

[BADOLBILZ]

Out of curiosity, why would you all say that you are worrying about a specific number when they could dig up another $50M or more of immediate space if they REALLY needed to and could sign the most expensive free agent left on the market for $5M or less cap hit in 2024?    Is that not understood?

 

I suspect it is related to the phenomenon of fans believing that ownership/management that they are satisfied with are of the same mind as them so knowing this very malleable number gives you a clear idea of exactly what they will do with it.    Which is a futile exercise for a number of reasons.    But are McBeane still in enough of a honeymoon phase with fans that this is still the case?    It seems like they've had to have made enough unexpected turns that didn't pan out at this point that after 7 years you'd understand that you aren't of one mind with them.

 

[GASabresIUFan]

I'm very happy Beane extended Taron Johnson.  The guy has earned the extension.

From a cap standpoint, Spotrac has the Bills 11.5 to the good before factoring in Ty Johnson, Samuel, Taron Johnson and about $2 million (or less) for the draft picks.  I'm going to assume for arguments sake that Samuel's cap hit will be similar to DaQuan Jones' (4.5  to 5) and that the cap savings from Taron's extension will cover most of that cap hit.  That probably leaves the Bills with 7-8 million in available cap after factoring in the draft picks, Taron, Ty and Samuel.

 

Sounds like enough money to add another starting Safety.

[BillsFanForever19]

Curtis Samuel contract is officially in. 3.98 in Year 1. Brings us to 7.98 without accounting for Ty Johnson. Ty probably takes us down to around 6.9. Now we wait to see how much Taron saves. Early projections have it being around 4.1. Guessing that brings us to around 11.6m under, give or take.

 

 

Edited March 19 by BillsFanForever19