Current Redskins Salary Cap Status - 2008

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by MrJL

THis may be an unpleasant topic but I think the next time they renegotiate the CBA the salary cap is altered so if a player dies his family is still payed his salary but the contract is wiped from the cap. That's something so non-football related it should never really be thought about but there's been what, four player including Sean Taylor who died in the past year?

pretty much. i think sean was the only one with a real money contract though, and even in his case, if snyder sued for the money, it'd be about 2mill or so, which isn't much from a cap perspective. though i don't think i'll be calling it dead cap this year :/.