Official Packers Offseason News, Non Draft, Non Big Ticket FA

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after we sign our rookies we will have about 1-2 million less in cap space, NOT 8.7 million less

last year the #14 pick had a cap number of just over 1 million his first year

#14 in the second round had a cap number of 727,000

minus out the minimum wage guys they replace and thats a cap hit of about 750,000.

the other rounds cancel out

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after we sign our rookies we will have about 1-2 million less in cap space, NOT 8.7 million less

last year the #14 pick had a cap number of just over 1 million his first year

#14 in the second round had a cap number of 727,000

minus out the minimum wage guys they replace and thats a cap hit of about 750,000.

the other rounds cancel out

OK, so he worked out actual cap space that had to be cleared for the 2015 rookies by team and it floats around one third to one half of the actual allowed rookie cap space, but can vary quite a bit team to team. Packers in that year had an allocation of 5.3 mil for 9 players and had to clear 1.8 mil. Bears and Jets were over half.

So I will adjust the offseason template to knock down the cap space by only 1/3 of the rookie allocation.