[bigjosh]

Originally Posted by bigjosh

Hmm, i didnt know it worked like that. It wouldnt be the first time I have been wrong. I figured that every signing would automatically push someone off the top 51. Learn something every day.

**** that, nevermind. I was absolutely correct.

Article from 2015
https://overthecap.com/explaining-th...ie-salary-cap/

Spoiler!

The number 6 pick is projected to count $3,002,182 against the cap. But once he is signed he will bump out the number 51 player on the roster. I currently estimate that player to be IK Enemkpali whose base salary of $510,000 will fall off the cap books once number 6 is signed. That makes the effective cost of pick 6 to be just $2,492,182. When we do that for every pick in the Jets draft we get the following:

So really what the Jets will need is around $3.2 million in cap space to sign their rookies despite the total cap charge being over $6 million. You simply due this for your team to determine the charge. The quickest way to do it is to simply take the rookie pool we have listed and subtract from it $435,000 multiplied by the number of draft picks you have. This will represent the maximum possible amount the rookies will take up and is much faster than what I did above.