2012 Salary Cap

[barrett]

ESPN's AFC south blog also just ran a piece regarding 2013 cap room. They listed that we should have $25 million in cap room next year. So even with resigning our own, it looks like our cap hell was only a year long.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by barrett

ESPN's AFC south blog also just ran a piece regarding 2013 cap room. They listed that we should have $25 million in cap room next year. So even with resigning our own, it looks like our cap hell was only a year long.

$25 MM sounds like a lot, but is it really? Brown, Barwin, and Schaub have to be paid. Barwin will be getting a big raise if he repeats on last years success. Brown will likely be looking to be paid near the top of his position, and Schaub will likely also be looking for a raise.

I know there are others that are nearing the end of their contracts, the above guys are the ones that I can remember.

I for one am shocked they have not extended Brown.

[painekiller]

Found a list of 2013 FA, and these names are shown for the Texans: Schaub, Brown, Barwin, Butler, Casey, Caldwell, Cody, McCain, Quin, and Jamison.

Quin and McCain will be looking at raises also. We have the potential to loose a few key pieces to this team.

[barrett]

$25 million is a lot. It's more than most of the nfl. Schaub's cap number is huge in his last year. If he's back it will be on year one of a deal and it shouldn't be that much. Either way we will have the option to bring all of our relevant FAs back or let some walk and spend elsewhere. A big improvement from this summer, and like I said, the end of our mini cap hell.

[Nconroe]

As of June 22, looks like Texans have 4.05 mil in cap space in 2012
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...as-of-june-22/

I guess we have two third round draft picks yet to sign.

Perhaps some depth at WR, OL, or as injuries occur.

Wondering if they will try to resign some of our tops entering FA next year such as Barwin, Brown, Schaub, several others, seems possible now.

And just found this site which appears to have fairly accurate cap numbers for each current player on roster
http://www.askthecommish.com/salarycap/ByPlayer.aspx

well, when sum top 53 from askthecommish totals to about 93mil, so something not adding up somewhere.

[WMH]

Unless Barwins deal has no new money, don't expect to see his extension till after the season. With the $1.6MM we got from Dallas and Washington, that gives them $900k to play with during the season. Not much to work with, wouldn't be surprised if we see a restructure or three.

Every penny will count this year.


From Schefter:
Houston, Detroit and N.Y. Giants are all roughly $700,000 over NFL's salary cap, according to league source. Houston can take their cap exception from the Redskins and Cowboys and get under the cap, but the Giants and Lions will have to make a move or restructure contracts to get under cap. They have until Wednesday to do it.

[cadams]

Originally Posted by WMH

Unless Barwins deal has no new money, don't expect to see his extension till after the season. With the $1.6MM we got from Dallas and Washington, that gives them $900k to play with during the season. Not much to work with, wouldn't be surprised if we see a restructure or three.

Every penny will count this year.


From Schefter:
Houston, Detroit and N.Y. Giants are all roughly $700,000 over NFL's salary cap, according to league source. Houston can take their cap exception from the Redskins and Cowboys and get under the cap, but the Giants and Lions will have to make a move or restructure contracts to get under cap. They have until Wednesday to do it.

The brown deal didn't include any new money before next season, so I am guessing they would do the barwin deal the same way. Also, from other sources I have heard that the texans have a couple million to play with. With all of that said, I am not thinking a new deal for barwin gets done before the season at this point anyway, though I would like to be wrong on that.