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February is right around the corner, which means it’s time for the annual purge of bad contracts in the NFL. This is especially true in Los Angeles, where a handful of veterans entering the third year of their second NFL contracts should probably sleep with one eye open between now and March 14.
With most speculating a 2018 salary cap figure of $180,000,000 and the Chargers already having roughly $156.6M in hard commitments, the team has just over $23.4M to spend on internal free agents, external free agents and their draft picks. That isn’t much money considering they need to leave $10M-$12M of cushion to deal with draft picks and injury replacements, which is why I fully expect Tom Telesco to free up another $18.8M with a series of cuts and restructures.
Let’s take a look at the moves I expect the Chargers to make in the next 6-8 weeks with an eye on creating additions salary cap space…
Travis Benjamin
Benjamin, who was supposed to be a marquee free agent signing as both the Chargers #2 receiver and t
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With most speculating a 2018 salary cap figure of $180,000,000 and the Chargers already having roughly $156.6M in hard commitments, the team has just over $23.4M to spend on internal free agents, external free agents and their draft picks. That isn’t much money considering they need to leave $10M-$12M of cushion to deal with draft picks and injury replacements, which is why I fully expect Tom Telesco to free up another $18.8M with a series of cuts and restructures.
Let’s take a look at the moves I expect the Chargers to make in the next 6-8 weeks with an eye on creating additions salary cap space…
Travis Benjamin
Benjamin, who was supposed to be a marquee free agent signing as both the Chargers #2 receiver and t
More...