Cap Talk

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Originally Posted by backrow

Some points made here, about Jansen, Bowen, and Arrington being on IR, possibly not counting I believe may be true! Only Active players count, am I not correct?.............
In addition, Rookies are all part of a Rookie pool, part of, but not totally counting toward a hard cap?

No, you are wrong.
Players on injured reserve count against the cap, so do rookies.
The rookie cap is a cap with in the main salary cap. The rookie cap is a just a smart idea the owners came up with to limit what they will pay their rookies. So in negotiations they can tell the rookie and his agent, " Due to the rookie cap this is the most I can pay you period, sorry." It prevents rookie salaries from growing too quickly.