Salary Cap
 

Anybody have the latest on caps?

The latest i have is April 4th, Saints at #8 with $14.95mil

RE: Salary Cap
 

Is that money we have to use to sign our rookies?

RE: Salary Cap
 

yep that is rookie capI think. what is left over?

RE: Salary Cap
 

no our rookie cap was 5.6 million for this year i believe...im gonna check

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Rookie allocations
Following are the 2006 rookie pool dollars allocated to each NFL team, the maximum in aggregate cap space that clubs can spend on their draft choices and undrafted free agents:
Team Picks Rookie pool
Green Bay 12 $6,647,633
N.Y. Jets 10 $6,631,295
Tennessee 10 $5,844,517
San Francisco 9 $5,646,962
Houston 7 $5,390,902
Buffalo 9 $5,366,937
New Orleans 8 $5,220,174
St. Louis 10 $4,880,531
Cleveland 10 $4,876,144
Baltimore 10 $4,762,876
New England 10 $4,617,429
Oakland 7 $4,504,263
Philadelphia 8 $4,256,970
Tampa Bay 10 $4,213,367
Detroit 7 $4,121,438
Arizona 7 $4,100,955
Denver 7 $3,853,423
Pittsburgh 9 $3,852,681
Dallas 8 $3,786,517
San Diego 8 $3,724,681
Minnesota 6 $3,708,617
Cincinnati 8 $3,688,985
Carolina 8 $3,673,327
N.Y. Giants 7 $3,523,882
Kansas City 7 $3,394,243
Indianapolis 7 $3,157,508
Miami 6 $3,023,638
Chicago 7 $2,899,270
Jacksonville 6 $2,871,527
Seattle 6 $2,830,866
Washington 6 $2,241,339
Atlanta 5 $2,069,514

Rookie allocations is part of your cap, so it's included in the total cap figure. So really, if we signed our rookies at the alotted amount, we'd have about 8 point something mil still in cap room, give or take depending on if that 14.5 mil figure is still correct. Pretty damn good with noone to sign.

14.5-5.2=9.3 if the #s are right. June 1st cuts could be interesting.

Don't hold out hope for a lot of big names come June 1st...teams are in much better shape when it comes to the cap now that you arent going to see a lot of potential starters get cut.

I say use some of that extra money to start locking up some of our own players long term...Charles Grant, Stallworth? Hilton?...those 3 will be free agents at the end of the year so if they figure into the saints plans, they should spend the money while they have it.

I think we recently extended Hilton.

At this point, yeah, I'd like to see us keep Grant.

Stallworth needs to have a big year this year or I'd say let him walk.

If there's no one out there worth spending that money on we'll have it for next year to spend on a better player than what's available now.