The 2023 Plan

[Ironshaft]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSunnyinIndy

While I agree that most of the player contracts are written to minimize dead cap hits in later years, I don't think the Colts salary cap situation is as clean as you have indicated.

For instance, after the Colts traded for Matt Ryan, they made two adjustments to his contract. First, as a goodwill gesture, they guaranteed all the remaining money on his deal. Second, they diverted some of the cash flow from 2022 to 2023 to add some more cap space for this last offseason.

Not all of the various contract tracking websites have been fully updated to reflect these changes.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/m...alcons-legend/

What is crazy is that all the sites changed his 2023 dead money numbers in just the past day. I draw my numbers from three sites and none of them had 2023 as guaranteed yesterday morning.

Either that or I am a moron. It could be that. I had forgotten the fully guaranteed provision.

Regardless, it makes a rebuild starting in 2023 very challenging other than draft class additions. We only have $17m-$18m in usable cap space to resign our free agents/add new veterans and they will have to make decisions on Okereke, Ngakoue, Dulin, Lewis, and Speed among others. Veteran starters would have to be cut which makes holes, etc.

Good catch.