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Originally Posted by Kray007

The problem is that the Colts have only $17 Million in cap space, and a big chunk of that will have to go towards signing the 2023 rookie class and filling out the bottom of the roster with the kind of minimum salary guys needed to get to 51 players.

Our effective cap number is a shade over $9.7 Million.

Cutting Ryan pushes that to $27 Million, but trading him gets you to 39,, and $39 Million lets you resign Yannick Ngakoue, Parris Campbell, EJ Speed, Ashton Dulin, Chase McLaughlin, and Tyquan Lewis without having to restructure the contracts of guys like Nelson, Smith, and Kelly.

Now,, if Those guys were performing at a high level, you’d think nothing of reworking their contracts and pushing a big chunk of cap money into the future. But, if you end up cutting one or more of them after another disappointing season, that $30 Million becomes dead money, and dead money is a salary cap albatross that Chris Ballard treats like the plague.

I don't see any of those guys other than Ngakoue making any real money. Maybe Speed, but you'd think we'd be able to re-sign him pretty cheap. Also, we can cut Kelly and save ~$8M against the cap next year.