With rookies reporting to training camp just a day away, the Dallas Cowboys have finally gotten around to bringing their draft class under contract.
According to Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken, Dallas has agreed to terms with the last two of their picks; fifth-round DE Bradlee Anae and seventh-round quarterback Ben DiNucci. Anae agreed to terms on Monday and DiNucci last week.
The Cowboys still need to agree with WR CeeDee Lamb, CBs Trevon Diggs and Reggie Robinson, center Tyler Biadasz and defensive tackle Neville Gallimore.
Thanks to the rookie wage scale as part of the collective bargaining agreements, an approximation of the amounts of each deal and their impact on the 2020 salary cap are already known.
The Cowboys will award roughly $7.4 million worth of 2020 cap space to it’s seven drafted rookies. That includes their 2020 base salary, as well as the prorated signing bonus that is spread evenly across all four years of a rookie contract.
That amount, however, is not how much cap space the rookies will take up; it will be considerably less.
During the offseason, team’s cap compliance is based on what the top 51 players of the 90-man roster come up to. Only when things are whittled down to 53 players for the start of the league year does everyone count.
So when Dallas signs these players, whether tomorrow or right before training camp, they will replace people already included in the calculation. The change in the team’s total salary number will be the difference between the rookies and the salaries at the bottom of that top 51.
The bottom seven players almost all make the minimum salary on each team, which thanks to the new CBA was bumped up to $610,000 per man.
7 x $610,000 = $4,270,000 removed from the total team salary to make room for the $7,376,668 means Dallas will add a net total of around $3.1 million.
The Cowboys currently have around $11.2 million of cap space remaining.
Player: WR CeeDee Lamb
Round/Slot Picked: 1.17
Signing Bonus: $7,749,100
Total Salary: $14,010,014
2020 Cap Hit: $2,547,275
Player: CB Trevon Diggs
Round/Slot Picked: 2.51
Signing Bonus: $2,157,024
Total Salary: $6,320,908
2020 Cap Hit: $1,149,256
Player: DT Neville Gallimore
Round/Slot Picked: 3.82
Signing Bonus: $963,956
Total Salary: $4,680,438
2020 Cap Hit: $850,989
Player: CB Reggie Robinson
Round/Slot Picked: 4.123
Signing Bonus: $729,268
Total Salary: $4,024,268
2020 Cap Hit: $792,317
Player: C Tyler Biadasz
Round/Slot Picked: 4.146
Signing Bonus: $494,400
Total Salary: $3,789,400
2020 Cap Hit: $733,600
Player: DE Bradlee Anae
Round/Slot Picked: 5.179
Signing Bonus: $237,776
Total Salary: $3,532,776
2020 Cap Hit: $669,444
Player: QB Ben DiNucci
Round/Slot Picked: 7.231
Signing Bonus: $95,148
Total Salary: $3,390,148
2020 Cap Hit: $633,787
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