Rams only team with no 2014 cap carryover/Wagoner

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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.
 

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No way we have $71M in cap space with or without the $3M we get back due to Finnegan signing with MIA. Something seems off kilter here. Where are you @Rams and Gators ?
 

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And that would make Khan a cheap POS in that he didn't spend anywhere near the cap - right? Just sayin'
 

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The Finnegan bonus money is more or less cap carryover. That's $3 million. We're fine either ways.

Cap is projected to be $143 million. Which would give us about $6 million in room and we could clear another $21 million or so in cap space if we release Pead, Sims, Jake Long, Langford, and Wells. Plus, any money that Bradford is willing to drop in a potential in restructure.

That's more than enough.
 

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I'm getting kinda sorta tired of Wagoner and his so - called articles. If you actually go and look, there are teams with a negative "carryover" due to accelerated cap hits or dead money , so his reporting, imo, is a bit disingenuous.

Teams with huge carry overs? Cleveland, Jacksonville and Oakland.
Surprise surprise. Loser franchises with cheap owners. And who btw haven't been paying for #s 1, 2 and 2 draft picks in the lottery that was the old NFL CBA.

Fuck you Nick.