The Buffalo Bills have some tough decisions to make this offseason and one could assume that cutting players is amongst the hardest jobs for a front office to make. Now throw in a pandemic? Those decisions likely get even tougher.
Bills general manager Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott are in this exactly situation. The latest reports suggest the 2021 NFL salary cap will drop to between $180-185 million.
Per Spotac, if maxed out at $185M, the Bills still only have around $3M of cap space to work with. Translation: Beane and McDermott are going to have to find ways to make more cap room in the coming weeks and there’s only one way to do that: Cap casualties/ cuts.
The way NFL contracts are structured, not every player will save a team money against the salary cap if released. Some actually cost teams more to do so during certain times of a deal, while others make total sense. In some scenarios, the best route is even restructuring a deal.
In an effort to see where the Bills might be looking at to find salary cap space, here are 11 salary cap casualties the Bills could make this offseason: