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This post is a reference for details of Cap Calculations that I've discussed in another post.
Calculations to simplify the review of new contracts for Cowboys players.
1 Dak Prescott
2 Demarcus Lawrence
3 Amari Cooper
4 Zack Martin
5 Tyron Smith
6 Travis Frederick
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8
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19 Leighton Vander Esch
20 L.P. Ladouceur
Options (choose from this list or free agents from other teams):
- Don't include future draft picks on rookie contracts.
The NFL salary cap has increased about 8% on average each of the past 5 years.
Using the rate of increase over the past 5 years to project the future 5 years, the 5 year period starting with 2020 would average 232.9M.
Currently the bottom 33 players of 53 account for 16% of the cap.
- It would be difficult to squeeze this group (21-53) to below 16%.
That leaves 84% for the top 20.
Using the 232.9M number, 84% is about 195.6M on average available for the 5 years starting with 2020.
Now the average of the top 4 contracts for 2020:
21M Demarcus Lawrence
14M Zack Martin
12.2M Tyron Smith
9.4M Travis Frederick
Estimates for Dak & Cooper:
34M Dak Prescott
20M Amari Cooper
Now the top 6 contracts equal 110.6M average per year.
That leaves 85M for players 7 to 20 (14 total players).
LVE and LP will be about players 19 & 20.
2.96M Leighton Vander Esch
2.04M (estimate) L.P. Ladouceur
That leaves 80M for players 7 to 18 (12 total).
Calculations to simplify the review of new contracts for Cowboys players.
- I've already added Dak and Cooper into the calculations.
- It's your choice on new contacts for:
- Zeke
- Byron Jones
- Keep/Cut Tyrone Crawford
- Any other 2020 Cowboys Free Agent
- Free Agents from other teams.
- The 80M is based on contract averages.
- The 8 shown below and players 21 to 53 take up the remaining cap space.
- The calculations to derive the 80M number are shown in the 2nd half of this post.
1 Dak Prescott
2 Demarcus Lawrence
3 Amari Cooper
4 Zack Martin
5 Tyron Smith
6 Travis Frederick
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19 Leighton Vander Esch
20 L.P. Ladouceur
Options (choose from this list or free agents from other teams):
- Don't include future draft picks on rookie contracts.
- Tyrone Crawford: The cost is 8M to keep him in 2020.
- Zeke: 15M average if re-signed.
- Byron Jones
- Maliek Collins
- Anthony Brown
- Robert Quinn
- La'el Collins
- Randall Cobb
- Jason Witten
- Sean Lee
- Joe Thomas
- Christian Covington
- Jeff Heath
- Tavon Austin
- George Iloka
- Kerry Hyder
- Xavier Su'a-Filo
- Justin March
- Darian Thompson
- C.J. Goodwin
- Kavon Frazier
The NFL salary cap has increased about 8% on average each of the past 5 years.
Using the rate of increase over the past 5 years to project the future 5 years, the 5 year period starting with 2020 would average 232.9M.
Currently the bottom 33 players of 53 account for 16% of the cap.
- It would be difficult to squeeze this group (21-53) to below 16%.
That leaves 84% for the top 20.
Using the 232.9M number, 84% is about 195.6M on average available for the 5 years starting with 2020.
Now the average of the top 4 contracts for 2020:
21M Demarcus Lawrence
14M Zack Martin
12.2M Tyron Smith
9.4M Travis Frederick
Estimates for Dak & Cooper:
34M Dak Prescott
20M Amari Cooper
Now the top 6 contracts equal 110.6M average per year.
That leaves 85M for players 7 to 20 (14 total players).
LVE and LP will be about players 19 & 20.
2.96M Leighton Vander Esch
2.04M (estimate) L.P. Ladouceur
That leaves 80M for players 7 to 18 (12 total).
