Projecting the Ravens' season-opening ap status

[B-more Ravor]

With a guess (please, it's just a guess) at the season-opening roster, I would put the Ravens at around $2.6M under.  That number could go up or down a couple $100K based on the final composition of the roster.

 

http://russellstreetreport.com/projecting-ravens-season-opening-salary-cap-status-version-2-0/

 

This also assumes no more injuries (fingers crossed) and no other signings.  They may need more Cap space at some point in the future, if injuries mount.

 

One place they could get a decent amount of Cap space now is Jameel McClain.  If so, could/should they release him?

 

http://russellstreetreport.com/might-the-ravens-release-mcclain/

 

[beanfigger]

If we can save $3mil by cutting him in the "failed physical" clause, then it should absolutely happen if he can't get on the field before the season.  We could certainly use that money next year, if not this year depending on how things go the rest of this month.

[rmw10]

This is why you're one of my favorite people on here.  I fully understand the cap, but don't have the patience to go in and do all of that myself.  Thanks for contributing to my laziness. ;)

 

 

With that being said, $2.6M is not a lot of money to have in the reserve.  Injury replacements are going to add roughly $400-600K for most players.  That leaves us with room for about 5 or 6 guys.  As of now, I don't think we have enough to "stash" some of these guys that aren't ready to contribute on IR.  We might have room for 1 or 2 that we don't want to get away.