The Houston Texans are atop the NFL in salary cap space with $49.3 million.
However, those numbers, provided by Field Yates of ESPN, aren’t exactly representative of what the Texans’ salary cap situation will look like once their free agent contracts are processed.
According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, the Texans have around $20 million in cap space to work with after their entire transactions from the 2020 free agency period are finalized.
As Wilson points out, and as Randall Cobb told Houston media in a conference call on March 27, the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on NFL operations has prevented players from taking their physicals and signing the contracts.
“I live out in L.A. in the offseason right now,” Cobb said. “Everything is shut down out here, and I haven’t had the opportunity to a doctor’s office and get my physical yet.”
Until those physicals can be taken and the contracts signed, the salary cap space is merely an estimation, but accurate guesses nonetheless.
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