Cousins Saga 4.0. Is he done in DC?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

We currently have 4.1M in extra cap space.

Next year we will have 56.5M in cap space. Only player needing re-signing is Zach Brown (3-6M) and Cousins (26M)

24M = roughly the amount of cap we would have to work with AFTER resigning Brown and Cousins.

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/washington-redskins/

** numbers per overthecap

(very little dead money next year, culliver, paea, d jax, bruton etc come off the books)

That's a pretty optimistic view. Here's a list of the key guys who are not on the team in 2018:

- Cousins and Zach Brown, as you note
- Bashaud Breeland
- Shawn Lauvao
- Niles Paul
- Trent Murphy
- Will Compton and Mason Foster
- Junior Galette
- Spencer Long
- Ryan Grant
- Dustin Hopkins

Guys also not on the team in 2018. We won't miss these guys but it's still a body you have to replace.

- DeAngelo Hall
- Terrelle Pryor

You can argue that some on this list should be kept, others should be let go. But you can't argue that all should be let go. We'll use up most of our available cap space retaining many of our own guys on this list. And there aren't very many good candidates to cut and save some money. Su'a Cravens saves you $500K. Ziggy Hood saves you $1.2M. But you probably want to keep him.

We're looking at a draft-focused offseason. Maybe one significant free agent acquisition.