The cap is set. The salary cap jumped from about $143 million to over 155 million this year. I am not sure if this includes the 1.5 million per team the NFL was caught trying to steal from the NFL players but the numbers seem to line up.
This leaves the Lions with about $35 to $36 million in cap space and that is with CJ on the books for a smidgen over 24 million.
35 plus million is way more than any team should need going into free agency. Let me put it like this, if a team needs to spend over 35 million on free agents, that team needs far too many pieces to be a legitimate championship contender and should spend reasonably in free agency and pray their coming draft picks are far better than they have been in the recent past.
Those 2010, 2011 and 2012 disaster drafts are coming back to haunt us. That should be the heart of our team right now. Instead, it is a deep hole populated by one LT who people aren't even sure should be a LT and one free agent LB. It could be worse, we could have absolutely no one on the roster from those three drafts.......
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