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Salary Cap Spending Balance

There has been discussion on the inbalance of cap space on our roster, particularly between offense and defense. Per Spotrac, we spent 47.8% of our cap on offense (8th most) and 27.4% on defense (2nd least). It has often been stated that our offense has under-preformed based on cap, and the defense doesn't stand a chance with spending such little money. Going into 2020, the situation is actually worse as we already have the 3rd most money committed to offense and defense falling to 21% of our cap spending.

A very, very big part of this goes back to spending draft capital. Simply, more players on rookie contracts equals less cap space.

Our D-Line has a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th round draft pick on their rookie contract starting or seeing snaps. In fact, Ferrell has the largest cap hit on the d-line. Our secondary has a 1st, 2nd, two 4th, and a couple of undrafted FAs.

On offense, only Jacobs and Miller are starters on their rookie contract. We have Moreau, Renfrow, and Ingold others seeing snaps.

My conclusion to all of this is to say, we have money to spend of defense, and draft picks we need to spend on offense. It will be two years before we need to extend any of our promising young talent on D and we need rookie contracts to eventually replace our more expensive talent.