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So...the Twitter-verse is a raging moshpit of people already screaming to cut this guy and restructure that guy to save space under the cap this year. Honestly, it's insane but then it is Twitter (keep reminding myself of that).
The biggest issue I see is people throwing names and numbers around that are either misleading or, more often, flat wrong. So, I thought I'd throw a few numbers around here that are right. At least as of today.
Currently Projected 2023 Salary Cap - $220 million
First, I said projected because this number isn't set yet. Second, $220 million seems to be what most cap watchers consider to be the floor but the number could be higher, perhaps as much as $230 million. For those who are curious, even at $220 million its an increase of almost $40 million over 2022 and an NFL record. The important thing here is that nothing is final so everyone is projecting and no one knows for sure.
Current Active Contracts - $209,160,173
Current Top 51 Contracts - $205,170,173
Dead Money for 2023 - $13,817,154
The team has 56 players under contract for 2023 today and that is the difference between Active and Top 51. The Top 51 is important because that is the number of contracts that count against the cap from the start of the league year until the first week of the regular season. This is different from the regular season when all players - active roster, practice squad, PUP, and IR - count against the cap. Pretty sure we all understand what Dead Money is.
2022 Rollover Cap - $5,537,577
Each team also gets to rollover their unused cap space from the previous year. This money is then added to the official salary cap for the new year to give the team its Adjusted Salary Cap figure but since we don't know what the official 2023 salary cap figure is yet, we can't figure out what the Adjusted Salary Cap number is either.
Current Top 10 Player Contracts w/ Cap Hit if Cut
All the numerical data in this post came from Spotrac.
The biggest issue I see is people throwing names and numbers around that are either misleading or, more often, flat wrong. So, I thought I'd throw a few numbers around here that are right. At least as of today.
Currently Projected 2023 Salary Cap - $220 million
First, I said projected because this number isn't set yet. Second, $220 million seems to be what most cap watchers consider to be the floor but the number could be higher, perhaps as much as $230 million. For those who are curious, even at $220 million its an increase of almost $40 million over 2022 and an NFL record. The important thing here is that nothing is final so everyone is projecting and no one knows for sure.
Current Active Contracts - $209,160,173
Current Top 51 Contracts - $205,170,173
Dead Money for 2023 - $13,817,154
The team has 56 players under contract for 2023 today and that is the difference between Active and Top 51. The Top 51 is important because that is the number of contracts that count against the cap from the start of the league year until the first week of the regular season. This is different from the regular season when all players - active roster, practice squad, PUP, and IR - count against the cap. Pretty sure we all understand what Dead Money is.
2022 Rollover Cap - $5,537,577
Each team also gets to rollover their unused cap space from the previous year. This money is then added to the official salary cap for the new year to give the team its Adjusted Salary Cap figure but since we don't know what the official 2023 salary cap figure is yet, we can't figure out what the Adjusted Salary Cap number is either.
Current Top 10 Player Contracts w/ Cap Hit if Cut
| Player | Position | Cap Number | Hit if Cut before June 1 |
| Carson Wentz | QB | $26.1 M | 0 |
| Jon Allen | DT | $21.5 M | $18 M |
| Curtis Samuel | WR | $13 M | $7.2 M |
| Chase Roullier | C | $12.9 M | $8.1 M |
| Charles Leno | LT | $12.5 M | $4.5 M |
| Kendall Fuller | CB | $11.6 M | $3.1 M |
| Montez Sweat | DE | $11.5 M | $11.5 M |
| Terry McLaurin | WR | $11 M | $27.8 M |
| Chase Young | DE | $11 M | $11 M |
| Logan Thoms | TE | $8.8 M | $3.5 M |
All the numerical data in this post came from Spotrac.
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