2008 Salary Cap Status

[Keith]

I have pretty solid info that the Texans are sitting at $3.52 million in available salary cap space for 2008 (at least prior to the Moats activation). The ItB.com cap page currently reflects $3.29 million, so I'm off by just a smidge somewhere, but still pretty close -- ~$230k, or about 0.2% off the initial 2008 cap estimate.

Tampa Bay leads the league with over $26 million available. Other notables: Tennessee ($7.05 million), Jacksonville ($5.95 million), and Indy ($5.32 million). Chicago has the least remaining room at $318k.

The good news is not just that the Texans will probably be able to forward a few extra million into their 2009 cap, but outside of Anthony Weaver (and Jacques Reeves?) for the first time in about four years there doesn't appear to be the sort of dead money weight just waiting to be let go... this team will have NO excuses to build the team they want to go to battle with next season.