[sherck]

$167.000m = NFL 2017 Salary Cap
$006.614m = Colts 2016 Cap Roll-Over
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$173.614m = Colts 2017 Adjusted Salary Cap


$135.230m = Top 51 Current Salaries (Estimating $2.5m for Al Woods)
$008.576m = Dead Money
$006.322m = 2017 Draft Pool
$001.080m = Spots #52 and #53 on active roster
$001.200m = Practice Squad
$003.000m = In-Season "Churn" Space
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$155.408m = Current Obligations

$018.206m = Free Cap Space to Sign NEW Free Agents

Lots of cash to still improve the team; this year or next year.

BREAK BREAK BREAK

Interesting pattern to the Colts 2017 cap hits.

The top 4 cap hits just happen to be the 4 guys whom most would agree would start on just about any other roster in the NFL:

$19.400m = Andrew Luck
$12.800m = Anthony Castonzo
$10.250m = Vontae Davis
$10.000m = T.Y. Hilton

All of the contracts that are between $5.000m and $9.999m are signed this season:

$09.968m = Jabaal Sheard
$08.000m = Jack Doyle
$05.843m = John Simon

All the rest of the team has under a $5.00m cap hit (the next highest is Kendall Langford at $4.250m) which most would agree is a solid starters wage in the NFL but not elite.

Only 7 cap hits this year over $4.250m. Ballard has deleted anyone who does not fit into his view of the world.

Cheers,