Available Cap Room

[Pocono]

Only the top 51 count until final cutdown. Crazy has the Skins at about 115.5M for the top 51 plus dead cap on his cap page.

http://www.thewarpath.net/WarpathRedskinsCap.htm

The cap rose 7.5M but minimum salaries rose 40K per player so that will eat up about 2M of the cap increase.

When a player gets cut another player moves into the top 51 at a 350K salary partially offsetting the cap savings. That's called the rule of 51.

The CBA extension brought about 6M of immediate cap relief to the Skins because LTBE'd incentives in contracts for several players which were there to meet the 30% rule were canceled.

If the Skins restructure contracts for all their biggest salary players and guarantee all their roster boni they can likely get to about 15M under the cap.

20M cap deficit

-5.5M net increase in cap
-6.0M LTBE'd
-9M in cuts Arrington plus the 7 mentioned the other day-RFA tenders
-8M guaranteed roster boni
-6.5M restructures

35M-20M=15M

FWIW..Cash over cap measures make it risky to depend on future increases so I don't see them guaranteeing Springs bonus or restructuring contracts for Brunell Jansen and Thomas which would cut that number by more than 1/2.