Cowboys top cash spending team in 2021

[Miller]

I spent a bit of time trying to figure out the disparity between the two.

If you took away the restructuring cash from the active cash you would get ~194mil spent. That's within 2 mil of the NFLPA numbers. Maybe something you could say is close enough as I'm sure spotrac/OTC have very close numbers but maybe not dead accurate to the thousands, and for 53 players that could be the % of error.
But why would the PA ignore IR cash and true dead cash? And restructuring cash?
Sort of wish there was a breakdown on how the PA got each teams cash spent. Unless I missed it in a link.

I was trying to figure it out too and ran into this article about the Lions in 2017 and the numbers the NFLPA sent out. There is a lot of info here to read through. Good stuff to sift through

https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2018...-lions-highest-cash-spending-2017-explanation