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BROGS said:
Thanks brother! That is if all draftees are on 51 roster. It gets confusing to me sometimes 😕
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yeah only the top 51 count so that's part of why the draft picks will only count 6mill towards the cap.....keep in mind that any player that makes the team over those late round picks will cost more so we should hope all 10 draft picks make the team
 
Over the Cap has us at 18 mil under with the following contracts listed as zero:
Eichenberg
Stonehouse
Mattison
Britt
Pharoah Brown
(there may be others I'm missing)

Spotrac has us at 7 mil under with the following contracts listed as zero:
Burnes
Pharoah Brown
Mattison
Gay
Eichenberg
Britt

Now, with the Jackson restructuring, I think we're all lost on how we're doing
 
The Jackson restructuring leaves the Dolphins with somewhere between $13 million and $15 million in space. The precise number wasn’t clear Thursday morning because the contracts of seven players who signed contracts with Miami (Liam Eichenberg, Alexander Mattison, Ryan Stonehouse, K.J. Britt, Pharoah Brown, Willie Gay and Benito Jones) hadn’t been listed yet on the players union web site. But all seven of those players were expected to get modest deals. Before those deals were processed, Miami had $18.6 million in cap space, according to overthecap.com. But only the 51 highest paid players count against a team’s cap. The players who are now 48 to 51 have cap charges of $960,000.

But the Dolphins lowered his 2025 cap hit from $13.83 million to $5.79 million by converting $9.71 million of Jackson’s 2025 salary into a signing bonus. That move, reported by overthecap.com, reduced his salary cap number by that $7.8 million. But that added $1.9 million to his 2026 cap hit, increasing it from $13.8 million to $15.8 million. It also added to his cap charge the year after his contract expires. Jackson has a $9.4 million cap hit in 2027, when he’s no longer under contract. Jackson’s $9.9 million salary for 2026 is not guaranteed, but there would be heavy cap consequences for terminating his contract early.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article302412839.html#storylink=cpy
 
Yeah, I really am curious about those unlisted contracts. I wonder what that article means by "modest" deals.
 
Thus far, 'modest' is the right word... Melifonwu, Borum and Davis are only getting 2.5m each... Westbrook-Ikhine 1.6m... most of the others vet minimum or so.

None of these players have cost much more the 51st highest contract (which is the last one that counts in the offseason) of 960k.
 
phinsforlife said:
The Jackson restructuring leaves the Dolphins with somewhere between $13 million and $15 million in space. The precise number wasn’t clear Thursday morning because the contracts of seven players who signed contracts with Miami (Liam Eichenberg, Alexander Mattison, Ryan Stonehouse, K.J. Britt, Pharoah Brown, Willie Gay and Benito Jones) hadn’t been listed yet on the players union web site. But all seven of those players were expected to get modest deals. Before those deals were processed, Miami had $18.6 million in cap space, according to overthecap.com. But only the 51 highest paid players count against a team’s cap. The players who are now 48 to 51 have cap charges of $960,000.

But the Dolphins lowered his 2025 cap hit from $13.83 million to $5.79 million by converting $9.71 million of Jackson’s 2025 salary into a signing bonus. That move, reported by overthecap.com, reduced his salary cap number by that $7.8 million. But that added $1.9 million to his 2026 cap hit, increasing it from $13.8 million to $15.8 million. It also added to his cap charge the year after his contract expires. Jackson has a $9.4 million cap hit in 2027, when he’s no longer under contract. Jackson’s $9.9 million salary for 2026 is not guaranteed, but there would be heavy cap consequences for terminating his contract early.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article302412839.html#storylink=cpy
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I like when you post so that I see the logo that should be used until the end of time.
 
With the signing of Jones, I think we are up to 69 players. This means we still have 22 players to obtain (Matos doesn't count). 10 draft picks and our usual dozen (or so) UDFAs will likely overfill our roster. Look for a couple of the bottom of the roster guys to be released post draft.
 
100% agree with this strategy...

Use FA to fill short term needs. Bargain hunt.
 
TXFinFan said:
I'm good with that for the most part, but the worry is that Grier absolutely needs to crush the draft or we're doomed, lol
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Exactly.

This philosophy works really well *if* you can hammer the draft.

Regardless, I’m happy that we’re setting up the next regime to have a clean slate pretty much. I want the next regime to find its core players through the draft though.
 
Well... we signed a new starting Guard, and maybe two Safeties... linebacker depth, a new 3rd RB, a power back...

That's a lot... and for chump change.

If we draft 1 quality lineman on either line, and we ought to be pretty good.
 
Feverdream said:
Well... we signed a new starting Guard, and maybe two Safeties... linebacker depth, a new 3rd RB, a power back...

That's a lot... and for chump change.

If we draft 1 quality lineman on either line, and we ought to be pretty good.
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That's pretty optimistic, lol. By my estimation, we need to draft a starting OG, DT, S, CB with depth at those positions and many more. Either way, I'm not very confident that Grier will be able to pull that off and/or that our coaching staff will be able to get them ready to play day 1.
 
TXFinFan said:
That's pretty optimistic, lol. By my estimation, we need to draft a starting OG, DT, S, CB with depth at those positions and many more. Either way, I'm not very confident that Grier will be able to pull that off and/or that our coaching staff will be able to get them ready to play day 1.
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I think the plan is for Melifonwu and Davis to start... and yes, I think we'll take a third day Safety like we did with McMorris.

For sure we need a DT and Guard.

There are a lot of FA CBs still.
 
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