Bills in Great Cap Shape..

[patmoran2006]

Bills | Team is $10.7 million under salary cap
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:18:00 -0700
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports the <A href="http://www.kffl.com/team/9/nfl">Buffalo Bills are $10.7 million under the salary cap, according to a source with NFL (http://www.kffl.com/team/77/nfl) contractual data.

[Devin]

We are gonna need to to get Clements, Peters, McGahee....etc locked up.

Not to mention #8 aint gonna be cheap.

[Dozerdog]

My guess is we will need 5-6 million to sign draftees- more if we choose to trade down- acquiring more picks.

[patmoran2006]

$5-6 million for the draft??? No way

[clumping platelets]

:ontome:

[Dozerdog]

$5-6 million for the draft??? No way

We had a rookie cap of over $5 million in 2003 when we drafted 4th overall.

The cap has gone up about 20% since then, and we have extra picks this year.

[patmoran2006]

Maybe I'm wrong, I certainly could be..

But I thought we need to put away about $3 million to sign our draft picks.

If that's not the case, there are teams drafting ahead of us with far less cap money that wont have the money to sign their picks (Raiders, Jets and Titans all have less money than us)

[Dozerdog]

That's why teams make June 1 cuts, and why players wait until the day before camp to sign

[clumping platelets]

While our rookie pool may be in that range, the actual impact on the salary cap will be less because of the "top 51" rule......

[patmoran2006]

While our rookie pool may be in that range, the actual impact on the salary cap will be less because of the "top 51" rule......

Elaborate more, please.

[Dozerdog]

Elaborate more, please.The NFL allots teams only so much to spend on rookies- the rookie pool is a cap within the salary cap and each team's pool is different- it depends on how many players were drafted, and where.


Teams with higher draft picks get a bigger pool. The Bills have 4 top 100 picks- and all are in the top 10-12 of each round- so we will most likely have a very high pool number.


Now- guys drafted in Rds 5-6-7 will make peanuts- rookie league minimum- Between $225,000 and $300,000.

Our guys drafted late and making below $275,000 or so will not be in the Bill's top 51 total salaries. Those won't count vs the cap until the Bills trim to the roster limit before the season starts

Only the top 51 salaries count vs the cap

[billsburgh]

unless the info comes from Clump, I dont put much faith in it. He's the expert

[Dozerdog]

LOL- he sends me all the cap info for editing. I may be off a little with the exact figures- but it's close.

Go to Clump's cap page and see what Justin Geisinger or Eric King made last year.

[patmoran2006]

Not true..

My only dispute was us needing $5-6 million for this draft.. I could have sworn I read several articles that said the Bills need to have between $2-3 million put away for this draft.

Now I'll be the first to admit that the salary cap is not my football area of expertise. I can figure out how to prorate a signing bonus and add the base salarie to come up with cap numbers, and that's about it.

Regardless, I think the best thing to do with this money is to try and lock up as much of the core of players here now as possible: Peters, Willis, Nate and extend Fletch for 1-2 more years, he was awesome last year.

[billsburgh]

I wasn't referring to you Dozer, I meant the link posted originally.

[clumping platelets]

:dizzy:

[clumping platelets]

The rookie pool is the maximum cap value for the 1st yr of all draft choices and prorations for UDFAs.......from start of League Year until final 53 man roster, only top 51 cap charges and prorations of all other players count on the overall cap....

Last yr: Lionel Gates cap number was $236,333 ($225,000 salary and $11,333 proration).....all of that counted on the rookie cap but only the $11,333 counted on the overall cap.....once the final 53 man roster was set, all $236,333 counted on overall cap...

Rookie cap = 1st yr cap charges of all draft choices PLUS any bonus proration for UDFAs

[DraftBoy]

So Clump any idea on how much we need to put way for this years rookies?

[clumping platelets]

No clue....I do not know what impact the new CBA will have on the rookie pool.....also, the Bills no. of picks and positions in each rd can change between now and the end of the draft.......we will know the rookie pool assignments by the end of next week

[DraftBoy]

No clue....I do not know what impact the new CBA will have on the rookie pool.....also, the Bills no. of picks and positions in each rd can change between now and the end of the draft.......we will know the rookie pool assignments by the end of next week


Cool, keep us posted as always. Btw we are looking like we are great shape for next year correct?

[MVP]

Resign Nate, Willis, and Lee