Hawkstorian
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The NFLPA site shows the Seahawks with about $19.45M in cap space. This number does not take into account any of the new deals for Rubin/Lane/Kearse/Ryan. The Seahawks are still keeping Lynch on the books so that figure it a little misleading.
By my calculations, if Lynch is cut, and accounting for the 4 new contracts, that would put the Seahawks at about $16.8M. We also know the draft picks will reduce that by about $2.2M.
Which leaves the team by my estimate with around $14.6M in available room.
They could easily wait until June 1 to release Lynch, which would add another $2.5M to the 2016 cap dollars.
The only 'big' deal we're still waiting on is Okung, or another LT. They could give a deal with 2016 cap of $6M easily and still have dollars left over to work on deals for Baldwin and maybe Bennett.
Looking over the roster, there really isn't another player who is scheduled to be a UFA in 2017 that we should be too concerned about.
Bottom line: the team has plenty of flexibility to do what they need to do, and still add a few role players.
By my calculations, if Lynch is cut, and accounting for the 4 new contracts, that would put the Seahawks at about $16.8M. We also know the draft picks will reduce that by about $2.2M.
Which leaves the team by my estimate with around $14.6M in available room.
They could easily wait until June 1 to release Lynch, which would add another $2.5M to the 2016 cap dollars.
The only 'big' deal we're still waiting on is Okung, or another LT. They could give a deal with 2016 cap of $6M easily and still have dollars left over to work on deals for Baldwin and maybe Bennett.
Looking over the roster, there really isn't another player who is scheduled to be a UFA in 2017 that we should be too concerned about.
Bottom line: the team has plenty of flexibility to do what they need to do, and still add a few role players.