The Seattle Seahawks have saved a nice chunk of salary cap space for the 2023 season by restructuring the contract for strong safety Jamal Adams.
According to Field Yates at ESPN, Seattle will save $6.613 million.
Effective today at 4 PM ET, the NFL's Top 51 cap space rule went away for the season.
Many teams created cap space through contract restructures:
49ers George Kittle/Trent Williams: $23.224M
Ravens Marlon Humphrey: $7.536M
Seahawks Jamal Adams: $6.613M
Bucs: Shaq Barrett:…— Field Yates (@FieldYates) September 6, 2023
Prior to this news, the Seahawks had around $2.48 million in space according to Over the Cap, which should bring their total to around $9.1 million now.
That’s more than enough to sign a high-impact free agent at a position of need, if that’s the kind of thing the front office is interested in.
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