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Rams only team with no 2014 cap carryover
By Nick Wagoner
http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/16268/rams-only-team-with-no-2014-cap-carryover
EARTH CITY, Mo. -- As it stands, the 2015 NFL salary cap is projected to come in at $140 million, though that figure is subject to change. For now, the St. Louis Rams don't appear to have much wiggle room underneath that number.
According to the figures from ESPN Stats & Information, the Rams have $71,950 in salary cap space. That number can and will change as the Rams reduce or release the contracts of players like tackle Jake Long, defensive tackle Kendall Langford, running back Isaiah Pead, center Scott Wells and quarterback Sam Bradford.
But there's another interesting number that is associated only with the Rams heading toward the business portion of the offseason: $0. The Rams are the only team in the league with $0 in projected carryover from 2014.
Cap carry over is a relatively new concept within the scope of the NFL salary cap. It was added in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement to allow teams to take unused cap space from the previous season into the next year's cap.
For example, if a team had a $5 million cap carryover from last season, it would actually be able to spend up to $145 million this year. In the Rams' case, though, there's not much of a math requirement. They currently have that $71,950 in space and they have zero carry over so their projected current cap space is $71,950.
For comparisons' sake, the Jacksonville Jaguars had $39,980,005 in initial cap space for this year but carried over $21,768,205. That combination gives Jacksonville the most projected cap space in the league at $61,748,210.
The entire chart of initial cap space, carry over amounts and projected total space is at the bottom of Kevin Seifert's piece on the top 20 possible free agents.
By Nick Wagoner
http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/16268/rams-only-team-with-no-2014-cap-carryover
EARTH CITY, Mo. -- As it stands, the 2015 NFL salary cap is projected to come in at $140 million, though that figure is subject to change. For now, the St. Louis Rams don't appear to have much wiggle room underneath that number.
According to the figures from ESPN Stats & Information, the Rams have $71,950 in salary cap space. That number can and will change as the Rams reduce or release the contracts of players like tackle Jake Long, defensive tackle Kendall Langford, running back Isaiah Pead, center Scott Wells and quarterback Sam Bradford.
But there's another interesting number that is associated only with the Rams heading toward the business portion of the offseason: $0. The Rams are the only team in the league with $0 in projected carryover from 2014.
Cap carry over is a relatively new concept within the scope of the NFL salary cap. It was added in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement to allow teams to take unused cap space from the previous season into the next year's cap.
For example, if a team had a $5 million cap carryover from last season, it would actually be able to spend up to $145 million this year. In the Rams' case, though, there's not much of a math requirement. They currently have that $71,950 in space and they have zero carry over so their projected current cap space is $71,950.
For comparisons' sake, the Jacksonville Jaguars had $39,980,005 in initial cap space for this year but carried over $21,768,205. That combination gives Jacksonville the most projected cap space in the league at $61,748,210.
The entire chart of initial cap space, carry over amounts and projected total space is at the bottom of Kevin Seifert's piece on the top 20 possible free agents.
