The Raiders have been busy this free agency. They have signed 10 outside free agents and put tenders on three of their own restricted free agents, and re-signed running back Rod Smith. And their once abundant cap money available looks to be dried up.
This time a week ago, they had the 10th most cap space with over $55 million to spend according to overthecap.com. Now the same site has them sitting with $13.5 million.
What they don’t have is the numbers on five of the team’s free-agent additions, which means it’s highly likely that $13.5 million is already gone, but just has yet to be noted.
The cap figures they have are these:
LB Cory Littleton $11.75M
LB Nick Kwiatkoski $7M
CB Eli Apple $6M
DI Maliek Collins $6M
TE Jason Witten $4M
LB Nicholas Morrow (RFA tender) $3.26M
TE Jeff Heath $2.85M
QB Nathan Peterman (RFA tender) $2.13M
OT David Sharpe (RFA tender) $2.13M
Still unaccounted for are:
QB Marcus Mariota
ED Carl Nassib (3-year, $25 million deal)
WR Nelson Agholor
G Eric Kush
RB Rod Smith (re-signed)
Though the cap figure for Nassib is not yet in, if you put it at his average of $8 million per season, that would give the Raiders just $5.5 million left for Mariota, Agholor, Kush, and Smith. Mariota’s number isn’t going to be a small one.
That doesn’t seem possible, so you figure some of these numbers are a little off. But even with some wiggle room and factoring in a rookie pool of around $5 million, the Raiders are at or near the end of the line in available money under the cap.
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