As always, any cap hit pending for Jaylon based on bonuses already paid is all sunk cost. All we can do is push it between years, trading it off with cap hits due to other players.
What we *can* avoid is adding another penny to Jaylon's cumulative cap hit. We *can* avoid his salary of 7.2mil for next year. And should.
The Spotrac calculation for when you can cut a player is bogus. All it does is see if you net a net cap hit for the year for a pre June 1st cut. Whether that's positive or negative, it doesn't tell you whether it's worth keeping the player.
Overthecap also has the numbers for post June 1st release, and trade cap hit pre and post June 1st. But whichever number you'r looking at, the Dead Cap for this year has to be accounted for, now and in the future, whether we keep Jaylon for next year of not.
Dead cap is dead. Sunk cost. It's not a consideration unless you're really up against the cap,and if you are, you're screwed anyway.
