Tag: positional spending

Lions’ spending at WR still near bottom of NFL even with Amon-Ra St. Brown’s extension

The Lions spending at WR is still near the bottom of the NFL in 2024 even with Amon-Ra St. Brown’s extension

The Detroit Lions rewarded All-Pro wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown with a new contract this offseason that briefly made him the highest-paid wideout in the NFL. The four-year, $120 million extension that included $77 million guaranteed is a massive deal, albeit one that was quickly surpassed by Minnesota’s Justin Jefferson.

Despite the $30 million-per-year average, St. Brown’s new contract is structured such that barely 10 percent of that APY counts against the Lions’ salary cap this season. Thanks to some creative cap management, St. Brown amazingly counts only for a cap hit of $4.86 million in 2024.

Detroit’s savvy cap manipulation permeates beyond St. Brown at wide receiver. The entire WR corps will count just $21.543 million against the salary cap, which represents 8.5 percent of the team’s spending. The total expenditure at wide receiver ranks 26th in the NFL.

The Lions aren’t even spending half of what the top team, San Francisco, is devoting in cap resources to the wide receiver position in 2024. Green Bay ranks last in WR spending in 2024 at just over $11 million.

The Lions’ WR breakdown in cap hits for 2024:

Amon-Ra St. Brown – $4.862 million

Jameson Williams – $4.762 million

Kalif Raymond – $3.25 million

Donovan Peoples-Jones – $1.3 million

Daurice Fountain – $1.06 million

Tom Kennedy – $985,000

Tre’Quan Smith – $985,000

Antoine Green – $944,190

Maurice Alexander – $915,000

Isaiah Williams – $800,000

Jalon Calhoun – $800,000

Kaden Davis – $795,000

All salary figures courtesy of Spotrac. 

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Where the Colts rank in positional spending entering 2023

Taking a look at where the Colts rank in positional spending compared to the rest of the NFL.

The Indianapolis Colts are looking to move in a new direction to begin the 2023 season, which means the offseason was spent rebuilding a strong portion of the roster.

Currently among the league leaders in salary-cap space, the Colts rank 26th in offensive spending, 17th in defensive spending and 10th in special teams spending, according to Spotrac.

Despite having some players like Quenton Nelson and Shaquille Leonard at the top of the market at their respective positions, the Colts always seem to have some of the most salary-cap space during the offseason.

Paying for talent is a part of the business, though, and with training camp right around the corner, we wanted to look at how the Colts stack up in their positional spending relative to the rest of the league.

In doing so, we’ll be using the figures from Spotrac to see where the Colts stack up:

Where do the Seahawks rank in spending at each position?

Here is where Seattle ranks in spending at each position compared to the rest of the league.

As the President likes to say, a budget is a reflection of values. The same can be said for NFL teams and how they utilize the salary cap. Some teams are free spenders in the trenches, investing their resources to dominate at the line of scrimmage. The 49ers are one and it’s working pretty well for them. As for the Seahawks, nobody is spending more money at the safety position. Let’s see how they compare to the competition.

Here’s where Seattle ranks in spending at each position compared to the rest of the league. Figures courtesy of Over the Cap.

Where do Chiefs rank in spending at each position?

Take a look at the #Chiefs’ positional spending on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball:

Kansas City Chiefs GM Brett Veach has been tasked with building out the roster to keep the team competitive every year, while also extending the Super Bowl window. It’s not an easy task and takes a perfect blend of aggressive moves and fiscal responsibility.

The folks at Over The Cap have assembled a nifty positional spending table, which helps lay out the Chiefs’ salary cap allocations at each position. It provides a good idea of just how Kansas City has built its roster around star QB Patrick Mahomes.

Here’s a quick look at the team’s positional spending on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball:

How to build a winner: 49ers’ spending by position

Here’s how the #49ers are allocating money at each position for 2023:

Does the salary cap actually exist for the 49ers? Their big-ticket signings have grabbed plenty of headlines over the last couple of years, but they’ve never managed to run into serious cap problems. That’s due to good cap management, and a reliance on key players either on rookie deals or outperforming cheap free agent contracts.

At some point they’ll have to make hard decisions, like not re-signing Mike McGlinchey or figuring out how to fit Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk into the receiving corps once Aiyuk is up for an extension.

For now though they’re in a good place spending-wise thanks in part to never going too high or too low on any one position group. With a couple exceptions, the team’s spending is very well-balanced.

We went through position-by-position on the Over the Cap positional spending chart to figure out where San Francisco ranks in spending at each position:

Where the Saints rank in positional spending across the NFL

Where have the Saints invested most on their 2022 roster? Here’s where they rank in positional spending across the NFL, via @DillySanders:

There has been a lot of arguing about how the New Orleans Saints approached the offseason. Should they have blown it up? Did they do the right thing in doubling down and trading next year’s first round pick?

Whatever side you fall on, the season is nearly here and the final say on the roster is about to be made. Money is also a huge talking point with New Orleans. According to Over the Cap, here is where the Saints rank in positional spending across the league for 2022, with $11.28 million left to spend.

Where the Lions rank in cap spending at each position group

Where the Detroit Lions rank in cap spending at each position group for the 2022 NFL season

The Detroit Lions slot into the upper third of the NFL cap spending for the 2022 season. As of July 2nd, the Lions have the 10th-highest cap obligation spending at $217.3 million.

Those figures break down by position group into more digestible pieces. There is some dead money on the books too, though significantly less than in prior years.

Here is how the Lions rank in cap spending at each position group for the coming season. These are cap figures, not salary spending.

All figures courtesy of Spotrac.  

Here is where the Chiefs rank in positional spending for 2022

How does the #Chiefs’ positional spending stack up against the rest of the NFL?

The Kansas City Chiefs have taken a long-term approach to roster-building as opposed to going all-in on a shorter championship window.

With a superstar quarterback under contract, the front office needs to be meticulous with their spending at every position. The Chiefs traded away standout WR Tyreek Hill, but the payoff was an influx of young talent at key positions on both offense and defense. You can probably guess where the Chiefs are spending the majority of their money, but there are still some surprising facts about how things stack up compared to the rest of the NFL.

Here’s where Kansas City stands in positional spending on both sides of the ball according to data from Over The Cap: