CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Browns have the highest adjusted salary cap in the NFL, at around $ 212.9 million, according to data released on Wednesday by the NFL Players Association.
They got there because of the $ 182.5 million limit, which was set on Thursday, and their league limit of $ 29,409,691. The limit is $ 2.5 million above the collectively negotiated floor of $ 180 million in the wake of COVID-19’s revenue reductions. If it weren’t for the pandemic, the cap would be about $ 210 million this season.
Entering the trading period on Monday, and the official start of the free agency and league year on Wednesday, the Browns have about $ 24.363 million in capitalization space according to spotrac.com, which is 14th in the NFL.
Overthecap.com has the Browns at $ 24,866 in cap space, which is the ninth in the NFL, according to their records. The upper limit includes the Browns’ $ 8,745,228 rookie lot, leaving them with about $ 17 million to spend on free agents, their own and others.
It is not a large sum, which means that the Browns still need to be creative if they want to add some free agents. The Browns have several renowned players on their radar, including rushers like Bud Dupree from Pittsburgh, Trey Hendrickson from New Orleans and Carl Lawson from Cincinnati.
They already released $ 3 million in capitalization space on Tuesday by releasing the defensive side Adrian Clayborn, but they don’t have many other similar moves like this to create space. They have seven players with eight-figure salaries, but they are all highly valued and should be here in 2021.
Jarvis Landry and Sheldon Richardson both have high salaries and low death tolls, but the Browns are definitely counting on Landry in 2021, and Richardson, 30, is also in good shape. The maximum limit reached by Landry is $ 14.753 million, the second highest in the team behind Odell Beckham Jr. ($ 15.75 million), and its maximum limit is only $ 3 million. Richardson’s maximum number is $ 13.166 million, the third largest on the team in 2021, and his dead limit is just $ 1.666 million.
David Njoku’s $ 6.013 million fifth-year option salary is also guaranteed on March 17. Njoku has indicated that he still wants to be traded, but the Browns are so far unwilling to negotiate.
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