Utah_Saint

Dead money is getting better. Saints had $45million in dead money last season. It's down to $16 million this season.

Keenan Lewis $3,600,000
Jairus Byrd $3,400,000
C.J. Spiller $2,500,000
Nick Fairley $1,490,000
Paul Kruger $1,400,000
Brandon Browner $1,300,000
James Laurinaitis $1,200,000
Brandin Cooks $1,104,264
Garrett Grayson $366,584
Luke McCown $250,000

Next season everyone but Byrd drops off the list.

AsylumGuido

Some teams avoid dead money by keeping the deadbeats on their payroll. I would much rather cut ties, eliminating all non-guaranteed monies from the cap. If you have a player who isn't producing you are wasting the roster spot and wasting non-guaranteed base pay. Dead money has never stood in the way of the Saints signing any player. With the rapidly rising cap level the dead money isn't anywhere close to being a burden as some of you make it out to be. Early estimates on the 2018 cap has it around $180 million. Dead money is a drop in the bucket, especially considering it will only amount to $3.4 million.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

spkb25

It is 16.8 mil this year and about to be 18.5 mil.