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As far as I can tell this is correct and up to date.
Louis Trinca-Pasat counts against the salary cap, but not against the 53 man roster.
Stedman Bailey ?counts against the salary cap, but not against the 53 man roster. It is up to the Rams. See below.http://russellstreetreport.com/salarycap/nfl-salary-cap-faqs/
Do all player count against their team’s Salary Cap?
Yes, once the season has started, all players – whether on the 53-man roster, Injured Reserve (IR), Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) or the Practice Squad (PS) – count against the team’s Salary Cap. The only players that do not count against the Salary Cap are players who are on one of the NFL exempt lists.
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Non-Football Injury Designations Lead to More Cap Space
This past Sunday, we reported that the Cleveland Browns were estimated to have around $45.46 million in cap space heading into the 2014 offseason. That number could be jumping to around $46 million, though, based on several players being placed on the Non-Football Injury (NFI) list during the 2013 season.
When a player is placed on injured reserve or PUP list, their salary is paid in full. The NFI list is different, though — teams have the option to pay a player’s salary in full, not at all, or a partial amount. Our original cap estimation had to assume that the players would be paid in full, even though it was more realistic that the players would be paid partial amounts of their salaries. It is typically impossible to guess those partial amounts, which is why we temporarily roll with the “full” amount. Fortunately for us, salary cap specialist Brian McIntyre tweeted out some Browns-relevant tweets on Thursday:
Why is it fair to not pay a player on the NFI list? If a team feels the player did something on their own accord (i.e. Bess), got injured outside of football, or had a condition unrelated to football (i.e. Bryant), the team feels like the player can’t live up to their contract due to something unrelated to football.
Teams can use discretion when paying these amounts.
I assume that the $5.9M remaining room is correct.
I assume the Rams are now counting Bailey at the full amount of his contract. This could change.
I assume Picat’s salary is now counting against the cap.
The Rams still need to budget ~$3.0M for IR, ~$1.3M for PS, and ~$1M for going from 51 to 53 players when the 90 man roster ends.
That is ~$5.3M. 5.9 – 5.3 = ~$0.6M left in cap room for the start of the season, Bailey’s cap charge could change. It might increase the cap space.
The Rams are just fine. They can add minimum wage players for virtually no effect on the salary. If they wanted to do something else, they would have to find the money somewhere else. There are plenty of ways to do that.
These are all estimates, cause the Salary Cap is a strange and weird creature.
I forgot to mention Nick Foles. I did him in another post. The quick and easy way to think of Foles, he won’t make much difference. The Rams have already paid that off for all practical purposes.
Foles: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/one-kind-of-roster-model/#post-47195
AgamemnonHow the Rams can find money.
They have $0.6M, after budgeting for the expense in 2016.
The gain another $0.6M by paying Bailey $90k this year.
Trade or cut Foles and another team pays his salary. That means they can gain up to $1.75M due to offset language in his contract.
Depending on when they book the remaining Foles $1.0M bonus, they don’t have a negative this year and it remains on next year.
They gain $0.5M when they add a player, cause they drop the lowest salary and use it as part of the payment for the new player.
All together that means they can have .6+.6+1.75+.5 = ~$3.5M cap to spend.
Forgot that the offset for Foles might not kick in until next year, remember Finnegan. To realize the $1.75M, they would have to trade Foles. But the Rams would still have ~$2M cap to spend this year.If the Rams want bigger chunks of money, then they are looking cutting a player or restructuring a contract.
We pegged the currant salary cap, figured Foles and Bailey, did a model roster, and found that you can calculate contracts and find meaning in contracts using using money per year. This was a good week.
Agamemnon
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