Salary Cap after signing draft picks

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A couple of Notes:
I listed the roster with players with a significant amount of guaranteed money and only a small amount of non-guaranteed money are unlikely to not make the roster, unless they go batshit crazy. Followed by other players with guaranteed money and then players with just unguaranteed base salary. It includes estimates for rookies and is the Top 53 (instead of Top 51).

This is pretty much where the Lions need to be going into the season, $9.5M under the cap and they’ll need about $3.5M for practice squad and maybe $6M for in-season roster moves.

Also of note: Rookie pools didn’t go up the same percent as the roster cap and as a result, salaries for 2022 rookies have been adjusted (Rookie signing bonuses only went up 1%).

2022 2022
Guaranteed NonGranteed 2023 2024 2025 2026
Jared Goff 25,500,000 650,000 25,650,000 26,650,064 - -
Romeo Okwara 10,000,000 1,000,000 11,000,000 - - -
Jeff Okudah 3,658,048 - 5,182,072 - - -
TJ Hockenson 3,197,895 200,000 9,392,000 - - -
Frank Ragnow 2,751,529 - 11,650,000 8,000,000 9,250,000 12,750,000
Penei Sewell 1,755,412 - 2,850,824 3,946,236 - -
Kalif Raymond 1,300,000 50,000 2,400,000
Josh Reynolds 1,200,000 50,000 3,250,000
Tracey Walker 1,035,000 - 9,000,000 8,000,000
Charles Harris 1,035,000 - 6,000,000
Jason Cabinda 1,035,000 - 2,065,000
DJ Chark 1,035,000 -
Alex Anzalone 1,035,000 500,000
Levi Onwuzurike 1,030,404 - 1,400,808 1,771,212 - -
Tim Boyle 1,000,000 250,000
D’Andre Swift 928,121 458,145 1,774,399 - - -
Aiden Hutchinson 705,000 - 2,328,336 3,951,672 5,575,008 -
Jameson Williams 705,000 - 1,498,720 2,292,440 3,086,160 -
Josh Paschal 705,000 - 1,056,621 1,408,242 1,759,863 -
Taylor Decker 7,650,000 7,350,000 13,950,000 13,700,000 - -
Michael Brockers 4,000,000 3,000,000 10,000,000 - - -
Jamaal Williams 1,000,000 3,000,000 - - - -
Mike Hughes 425,000 1,250,000
Chris Board 600,000 1,000,000
CJ Moore 250,000 950,000
David Blough 150,000 945,000
Jarrad Davis 292,500 895,000
Josh Woods 500,000 800,000
Halapoulivaati Vaitai 7,000,000 9,500,000 9,500,000 - -
Will Harris 2,540,000 - - - -
Amani Oruwariye 2,540,000 - - - -
Evan Brown 1,425,000
Julian Okwara 1,058,304 1,282,456 - - -
Jonah Jackson 1,046,070 1,216,137 - - -
Austin Bryant 965,000 - - - -
DeShon Elliott 965,000
Austin Seibert 965,000
Garrett Griffen 965,000
Bruce Hector 965,000
Craig Reynolds 965,000
Shaun Dion Hamilton 965,000
Eric Banks 905,000
Logan Stenberg 895,000 1,010,000 - - -
Quintez Cephus 895,000 1,010,000 - - -
John Penisini 895,000 1,010,000 - - -
Jashon Cornell 895,000 1,010,000 - - -
Aldrick Rosas 895,000
Dan Skipper 895,000
Saivion Smith 895,000
Jack Fox 895,000
Godwin Igwebuike 895,000
Jessie Lemonier 895,000
Matt Nelson 895,000
Bobby Price 895,000
Rashod Berry 895,000
Alim McNeil 893,145 1,126,290 1,359,435 - -
Ifeatu Melifonwu 877,539 1,095,078 1,217,000 - -
Amon-Ra St. Brown 825,000 940,000 1,055,000 - -
Derrick Barnes 825,000 940,000 1,055,000 - -
Jermar Jefferson 825,000 940,000 1,055,000 - -
Brady Breeze 825,000 940,000 1,055,000
AJ Parker 825,000 940,000 - - -
Jerry Jacobs 825,000 940,000 - - -
Trinity Benson 825,000
Jared Pinkney 825,000
Sahne Zylstra 825,000
Steven Montez 825,000
Parnell Motley 825,000
Tavante Beckett 825,000
Scott Daly 825,000
Mark Gilbert 825,000
Tom Kennedy 825,000
Tommy Kraemer 825,000
Riley Patterson 825,000
Anthony Pittman 825,000
Brock Wright 825,000
JuJu Hughes 825,000
Ryan McCollum 825,000
Jalen Elliott 825,000
Kerby Joseph 705,000 934,314 1,163,628 1,392,942 -
James Mitchell 705,000 870,000 985,000 1,100,000 -
Malcom Rodriguez 705,000 870,000 985,000 1,100,000 -
James Houston 705,000 870,000 985,000 1,100,000 -
Chase Lucas 705,000 870,000 985,000 1,100,000 -
Matt Sokol 705,000
Javon McKinley 705,000
129,592,112 148,763,055 91,119,929 25,463,973 12,750,000
Signing Bonus Proration 60,434,450 52,168,538 41,011,253 16,541,974 3,600,000
Dead Cap 20,284,828
Adjustments (269,411)
Total Cap Charges 210,041,979 200,931,593 132,131,182 42,005,947 16,350,000
Cap Limit 219,480,455
Under the cap 9,438,476
Practice squad 3,500,000
In Season Roster Moves 6,000,000
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Thanks, you do good work.

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Curious if we will make any other moves this offseason.

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Brockers :face_vomiting:

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Thanks DeadStroke!!

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I would just note that some of those players (like Board and Hughes) have a portion of their salary represented in the “Signing Bonus Proration” total. Their cost for 2022 is actually 1,000,000 each, whether they’re on the roster or not. (Important to remember when we’re talking about cuts and making the final 53.) A better example is D.J. Chark. He was already paid 9 mil, which is reflected in that “proration” line.

It’s excellent work that relays exactly where the team is financially, I just wanted to mention that in case anyone is forecasting roster cuts thinking the player’s total cost for the year is represented in the guaranteed line.

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Im more interested in the 2023 column.

Even with a further $20m jump in the cap that is roughly projected, and cutting Brockers, its not going to be a FA Bonanza.

Resign AO, possibly resign Chark. Replace Brockers and Analzone with draft picks, look at extending Jonah and Hock? Replace JWill.

Non capwise, decide about picking up Okudah’s 5th yr option.

You can extend Goff or toast him depending, and probably re-jigger ROkwaras deal to create some room…but reality is it’ll look like this year, adding one guy who can make a difference in a critical area of need and then backfill departures, with the Goff question aswered as either part of the draft or with an extension.

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I don’t think their hand is played on Goff next off-season. I could be wrong, but I expect they’ll ride out his contract this year and next, then pay up or part ways. But, yeah, no bonanza coming. Brockers will definitely be a cap casualty if he doesn’t retire after this season or restructure.

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I know they did the restructure thing once or twice last year. But they really haven’t used it have they?

Always options to create cap space if needed is someone they want becomes available.

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Yea, when I did this, 2023 stuck out to me as well. We aren’t doing much of anything with the roster the way it is (unless we kick the can down the road, like so many here want). The ones pretty much guaranteed a 2023 roster spot (because of guaranteed salary) are Ragnow, Hock, Walker, Sewell, Jamo, Okudah and Hutchinson. No one is way out of line on their yearly salary other than Brockers @ $10M.

Holmes is rebuilding the roster that Quinn tried to tear apart.

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He wasn’t trying, but he was succeeding wildly. That’s the type of person that is the most dangerous with with power

Overconfident, underqualified, no check or balance and locked on to one way of doing things.

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Thank you president Rod Wood et al.

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Who do you want long term that’s not on a rookie contract?
Decker…um.

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It’s moving money around to free up cap space. Not really extending.

Salary to signing bonus type stuff.

Just wondering in case they do find someone they want to bring in at some point.

I know they moved Goff’s money around a bit, didn’t change anything on how much he was getting, just when and what it was called,

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The Lions restructured Goff and Vaitai (late in the year because they ran out of money). All UFA’s that were signed to multi year contracts have been heavily backloaded. Chark/Harris/Romeo all use void years (cap charges for years not under contract). Several players have Non Likely To Be Earned (NLTBE) incentives that are closer to being LTBE and when earned will be a year end adjustment to 2023 cap.

All these were used to field this years team at the expense of future years cap dollars.

And yes, there is always ways to come up with cap space if needed/wanted.

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Yup, I’d resign him in a heartbeat if he plays healthy and as good as he has

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