La Canfora: Bengals Are $27.7 Million Under The Cap

by Josh Kirkendall on Aug 16, 2011 2:57 PM EDT

According to NFL Network's Jason La Canfora, the Bengals have $27.7 million ($27,766,680 to be exact) under the cap, which currently ranks as the fourth-most in the NFL right now. The Kansas City Chiefs have a reported $32.9 million available, leading all teams in the NFL while the St. Louis Rams are the only team over the cap (by $822,036).

Based on the cap numbers released earlier this month, the Bengals have increased their cap space by $600,000, which came out on August 4. And since August 4, the Bengals have cut Ryan McKnight, Brian Lainhart, Steve Robinson and Mark Wetterer while signing John Nalbone, Bo Scaife, John Standeford and Jonathan Fanene -- we're not sure if Tank Johnson release or the waiving of Garrett Mills factored into La Canfora's released numbers.

Currently the Bengals have a total salary of $93.2 million, which is the third-lowest in the NFL and nearly $20 million short of the league average $111.3 million.

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Oh, Don't You Worry...

…we’ll overpay some worthless free agents we think we are getting some “value” on. We could have spent some of that cap room on re-signing Mathis and Joseph.

I believe the preseason game on Friday showed us just how valuable Joseph was to our secondary, and Mathis is looking like a great option to Livings on the interior offensive line.

by Skeleton Kees on Aug 16, 2011 3:15 PM EDT reply actions

Joseph didn't want to come back

we weren’t resigning him

by Oregonbengalsfan on Aug 16, 2011 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Kind of agree with this.

Sounded like he wanted out, regardless of the money.

by Stanley1 on Aug 16, 2011 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions

+1 Maybe Antonio Bryant's knee has healed.

by IllinoisBengal on Aug 16, 2011 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions

let's go pick up a guard or two

by smoormandiddy on Aug 16, 2011 3:16 PM EDT reply actions

Clarification

The cap figures are based only on the Top 51 players, dead money and pro-rated bonuses for non-Top 51 guys. Before Tank’s release (and Garrett Mills), Dontay Moch was #51 in salary. So if you subtract Tank ($2,250,000) and Mills ($685,000) but add back in Scott ($525,000) and one of the other six guys making that salary, the net change to our cap was a decrease of $1,885,000.

The NFL.com figures though didn’t yet include the Tank and Mills transactions.

The take-away of these updates though is that the team will have more than enough cap space in 2011 and certainly in the future. There should be no expectation that we ever use the full cap. So in many ways this is just a broken record…sadly!

by bengaljohnboy on Aug 16, 2011 3:40 PM EDT reply actions

Yes or No

maybe the Bengals are Under Cap. How Much? Crunch the numbers and give me your stragety on how to spent these monies. Are we Rich or are We Poor?Nice Post. Follow Up!

by Chili Dog on Aug 16, 2011 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions