Giants’ draft class projected to take up $12.9M in salary cap

The New York Giants are expected to dish out approximately $12.91 million to the 10 players selected in the 2020 NFL Draft.

The New York Giants have filled out their 90-man roster and have very little cap room to play with as they hopefully enter the 2020 season.

The NFL salary cap for 2020 has been set at $198.2 million and the Giants have a sliver below $17 million to work with this summer. That does not include the draft pool figure of approximately $13 million, so in essence the Giants are only four million dollars under the ‘Top 51’ cap number.

The Giants selected 10 players in the draft, but seven of them were Day 3 selections — four in Round 7 alone.

The $12.914 million should be allocated for 2020 as follows per the website Spotrac.com:

  • Round 1, Pick 4: Andrew Thomas – $5.88 million
  • Round 2, Pick 36: Xavier McKinney – $1.525 million
  • Round 3, Pick 99: Matthew Peart – $818K
  • Round 4, Pick 110: Darnay Holmes – $808K
  • Round 5, Pick 150: Shane Lemieux – $697K
  • Round 6, Pick 183: Cameron Brown – $659K
  • Round 7, Pick 218: Carter Coughlin – $637K
  • Round 7, Pick 238: T.J. Brunson – $630K
  • Round 7, Pick 247: Chris Williamson – $629K
  • Round 7, Pick 255: Tae Crowder – $629K (signed a 4 year, $3,370,490 deal last week)

Keep in mind that as each player is signed, the Giants will have to make a corresponding cut to the 90-man roster if there is no open spot, so the amount of offsetting salary depends on the particular player waived.