NFL Salary Cap Situation: Can 49ers Benefit From New Cap?

I estimate that Akers, McDonald, Goodwin & Rogers will count about 13M against the 2011 cap, could be less, I haven’t seen big time terms.

I know McDonald was 5yr and 20M with 7M Guaranteed, I suspect he got a 5M SB pro-rated over 5 yrs(1M a yr), plus a 2M Roster Bonus, and maybe a 1M Base, or even minimum of 685K.

Then Goodwin got a 3yr 10.9M with 4M of it guaranteed, so I suspect a 3M Signing Bonus, 1M a yr, plus a 1M Roster Bonus, likely a 910K Base, so about 3M for this yr.

Rogers and Akers, I suspect about 3-4M for rogers and 2M for Akers.

So, I think that is about 12-13M then.we have about 14-15M left in cap space. For a WR, QB and maybe another CB.

OAK $15.25 mil;
PITT $8.5m;
DET $7.8m;
DALLAS $6.7m:
HOUSTON $3.25m.

Teams over the salary cap as of this morning.

Who knows if we’ll see quality players being released in order to get under the cap, but if they are, the Niners are at least capable of considering the option of bringing them in. It’s also entirely possible that they’ll feel content and stand firm.

But with the likelihood of guys only taking one year contracts, we can fill out our cap this year to bring in players who will contribute and help the team, but still get all that cap room back for next year. This let’s them evaluate the talent we have now and determine how they’ll proceed in FA and the draft, while not completely turning critical jobs over to undrafted rookies.

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I am stunned the Eagles aren’t going to be over the cap. That’s amazing. They and the Saints have done an incredible job manuevering around in FA this year. Nonetheless, if the Eagles would be dumb enough to trade Asante Samuels for next year’s 2nd rounder. I would jump all over that. Samuels and Rodgers with Spencer as a 3rd back is a very strong tandem. We would really start to look like one of the better defenses in the league on paper . . . .especially with the potential of Navarro and Mays. If we gave Samuels a multi-year deal that would eat up some cap space but be well worth it.

I remember during the negotiations that one of the things the owners were pushing for was the ability to alter the calculations for the signing bonuses. Instead of being evenly distributed throughout the contract, the teams could allocate them any way they wished. Does anyone know if that made it? If so, teams will have a TON more flexibility to manipulate the cap in any given year (unless they completely handcuff themselves from prior years – the butcher’s gotta be paid eventually).

One of the nice parts of the the cap is it should help us to get Goldson. Both the other teams that were connected with him were the Raiders and the Cowboys. With them being over the cap I have a hard time imagining them being able to get the money together to sign Goldson. That should give us a nice advantage