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本帖最后由 coimbrawu 于 2016-1-22 13:57 编辑
得知Vrabel拒绝了9人的合同,还是很开心的,毕竟他是一个好教练,今年Mercilus、McKinney等人的成长,包括Cushing的恢复有目共睹。今天Scout网站贴出了德州人的薪金空间解读,没有时间翻译,直接贴过来给大家看看
This is a guest spot from our good friend Troy Chapman and lining out the upcoming salary cap situation for the Houston Texans for the 2016 season.
With 57 players now under contract for the 2016 season the Houston Texans head into free agency with more cap space than they have had the past few offseasons. General Manager Rick Smith and company has finally reigned in the team salary cap to make it manageable and flexible. The team could also look at the free agent market to target a couple of mid to upper tier players should they choose to do so. How is the team salary cap flexible this year?
The Texans only have six players with fully guaranteed salaries (three are on rookie contracts) , and three players with partially guaranteed salaries. This means the team has a small amount of money committed to the roster.
Players with fully & partially* guaranteed salaries for 2016:
J.J. Watt (2016 & 2017 salaries guarantee on March 14, 2016)
Kareem Jackson
Jadeveon Clowney
Whitney Mercilus
Kevin Johnson
Bernardrick McKinney
Johnathan Joseph*
Derek Newton*
Xavier Su’A-Filo*
During the offseason the NFL teams will calculate their salary cap amounts using the Top 51 Rule (top 51 contracts count + any pro-rated bonus money). Until the NFL releases the official team salary cap figure we will use $153,000,000 as the amount each team will start with. The Texans are scheduled to carry over $1,637,055 remaining cap space from 2015 into the 2016 season. This will put the Texans’ Adjusted Salary Cap at $154,637,055 before any further adjustments are made. The team already has $394,582 in dead money on the books in 2016. The Top 51 spending is currently at $125,841,796.
$154,637,005 (Texans adjusted salary cap)
- $125,841,796 (Top 51 Rule)
- $394,582 (Dead Money Rolling into 2016)
= $28,400,677 in available cap space.
Just for comparison the Texans were sitting around $19.6 million in cap space after releasing Andre Johnson and Chris Myers last year to start free agency. Before any major roster moves are made the team has almost $10 million dollars more available when compared to the start of the 2015 league year.
The team does have 11 players scheduled to become unrestricted free agents on March 9th and the team does have the option to attempt to resign these players prior to the start of open free agency.
Name Position Status
Ben Jones Center UFA
Shane Lechler Punter UFA
Brandon Brooks Guard UFA
Jared Crick Defensive End UFA
Chris Clark Offensive Tackle UFA
Chris Polk Running Back UFA
Nate Washington Wide Receiver UFA
Quintin Demps Safety UFA
Nick Novak Kicker UFA
T.J. Yates Quarterback UFA
Brandon Weeden Quarterback UFA
There are six players scheduled to become restricted free agents and the team will need to submit tender offers or new contract extensions (should they choose to do so) by March 9th or the player will become an unrestricted free agent.
Name Position Status
A.J. Bouye Cornerback RFA
Justin Tuggle Linebacker RFA
Jonathan Grimes Runningback RFA
Darrly Morris Cornerback RFA
Eddie Pleasant Safety RFA
John Simon Outside Linebacker RFA
The team does have two exclusive rights free agents and it would be expected for the team to offer the minimum level tender to both players by March 9th.
Name Position Status
CB Charles James ERFA
CB Jeff Adams ERFA
Circling back to the flexibility the team has with their salary cap space, there are multiple players on the roster that could be subject to release without leaving a huge amount of dead money. These are players that could be released and their associated salary cap savings & dead money.
PLAYER 2016 CAP CHARGE 2016 DEAD MONEY 2016 CAP SAVINGS
Arian Foster $8,925,000 $2,300,000 $6,625,000
Rahim Moore $4,068,750 $2,000,000 $2,068,750
Garrett Graham $3,875,000 $750,000 $3,125,000
Brian Hoyer $5,015,625 $0 $5,015,625
Akeem Dent $5,562,500 $375,000 $2,187,500
Vince Wilfork $5,500,000 $1,500,000 $4,000,000
Cecil Shorts $3,421,875 $500,000 $2,921,875
As you can see the team could create a large amount of additional salary cap space by releasing some veterans. The team could easily create space to get the total available cap space up over $40,000,000.
The flexibility is there for the Texans to make moves with their own players set to hit free agency and on the open market if they choose too.
好消息是薪金空间很大,坏消息是球队去年在自由球员市场的签约很糟糕,球员没有发挥太好的作用,所以最多40m的空间,也不知道签约的人有没有用。经理Rick Smith在控制薪金空间方面做得不错,但是他和教练组的配合还是不太默契,签过来的用不好,是教练的锅还是经理的锅,还是两个人都有责任呢?今年的自由球员市场再看看会如何
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