Cowboys Cap Spending by Position in 2022 and where it can be cut

[rambo2]

Nothing when we got no further than the 5 -12 teams

Lol, they won a playoff game. They were one of the best teams in the league.

 

[stiletto]

Dak needs to voluntarily give some money back, preferably at least $10 mil/year.

They will just restructure his contract or extend him to free that much or more the next couple years.

 

[john van brocklin]

Dak needs to voluntarily give some money back, preferably at least $10 mil/year.

Never seen a player give back that kinda coin, my friend.

 

[Whyjerry]

LMAO. Tops in RB spend. Such clowns.

 

[TheHerd]

Being #1 in RB spending in 2022 suggests we have a GM still trying to build a team like it's 1992.

Glory days.

 

[Bobhaze]

Three of our best players are on rookie deals. Two of those are on defense. Diggs and Parsons will swing those numbers significantly.
Lamb will bump the WR dollars significantly.
Zero salary at backup QB helps keep that number from being too far out of line (10 is still way too high for what we have).
The RB situation looks bad, though the contract responsible for that was 4 years ago. And the numbers at this position are still relatively small compared to many others. Even paying the most in the league is not a huge impact on the cap overall.
Schultz is decent, but nothing exceptional. I don't think I could justify 10+ million for a TE unless they were in the Kelce/Waller/Andrews tier.

I join you in the idea about letting Schultz walk. He’s good but not top dollar good. He can be overpaid somewhere else. Ferguson, Hendershot and perhaps another rookie can make a really good TE by committee while on rookie deals.

 

[Chuck 54]

Dak needs to voluntarily give some money back, preferably at least $10 mil/year.

He only counted 19 million on the cap this past year.

 

[xwalker]

A look at how the Cowboys spend their cap space on offense, defense and STs compared to the rest of the league.

• OFFENSE: 27 players/$106 million/ Offense cap spending rank in NFL: 2nd
• DEFENSE: 29 players/$63 million/Defense cap spending rank in NFL: 26th
• ST’s: 4 players/$4.6 million/ST cap spending rank in NFL: 22nd

Where is our cap space spent in comparison to rest of NFL- Our Spending by position:

• QB- 3 QBs / Ranked #10 in spending at QB
• RB- 4 RBs/ Ranked #1 in spending at RB
• WR- 7 WRs/ Ranked #26 in spending at WR
• TE- 5 TEs/Ranked #5 in TE spending
• OL- 10 OLmen/ Ranked #6 in spending at OL
• DL- 10 DLmen/Ranked #16 in spending at DL
• LB- 8 LBs/ Ranked #22 in spending at LB
• Secondary- 15 players/Ranked #13
• STs-4 players/Ranked #22

What jumps out that can be addressed? RB and TE.
With big contracts for Micah Parsons, CEdee Lamb and probably Diggs down the road, money can be saved at those positions to be used elsewhere.

Here’s the link to the info I used:
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/positional/

Cap hit is a meaningless method of comparison.

A player is a 10M AAV could have a cap hit of 5M or 20M in a given season.

AAV is the correct method of comparison.

 

[Bobhaze]

Cap hit is a meaningless method of comparison.

A player is a 10M AAV could have a cap hit of 5M or 20M in a given season.

AAV is the correct method of comparison.

One reason the “cap talk” is relevant is because of how much Stephen Jones uses it. Seems like every year when SJ explains why we can’t sign a FA that would be an impactful add here, he brings up the cap.

Meanwhile, guys like Howie Roseman, Brett Veach and Jason Licht say, “Hold my beer” and make those moves happen. And I‘m not talking about mortgaging the future like the rams did. The eagles have 4 picks in the top 100 in this year’s draft after last off-season’s aggressive moves.

I’m certainly open to another way of looking at it. I would enjoy looking at an an AAV comparison as you describe. Do you have a link or source we could access?

 

[CowboyRoy]

A look at how the Cowboys spend their cap space on offense, defense and STs compared to the rest of the league.

• OFFENSE: 27 players/$106 million/ Offense cap spending rank in NFL: 2nd
• DEFENSE: 29 players/$63 million/Defense cap spending rank in NFL: 26th
• ST’s: 4 players/$4.6 million/ST cap spending rank in NFL: 22nd

Where is our cap space spent in comparison to rest of NFL- Our Spending by position:

• QB- 3 QBs / Ranked #10 in spending at QB
• RB- 4 RBs/ Ranked #1 in spending at RB
• WR- 7 WRs/ Ranked #26 in spending at WR
• TE- 5 TEs/Ranked #5 in TE spending
• OL- 10 OLmen/ Ranked #6 in spending at OL
• DL- 10 DLmen/Ranked #16 in spending at DL
• LB- 8 LBs/ Ranked #22 in spending at LB
• Secondary- 15 players/Ranked #13
• STs-4 players/Ranked #22

What jumps out that can be addressed? RB and TE.
With big contracts for Micah Parsons, CEdee Lamb and probably Diggs down the road, money can be saved at those positions to be used elsewhere.

Here’s the link to the info I used:
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/positional/

LOL.............RB #1 in the NFL? Jerry is the dumbest GM in football. RB is one obvious position to save money in the NFL and this clown is #1 in spending. And for some over the hill, slow and depleted clown like Zeke. Wow!