Q. Last week, there were plenty of reports saying that the Ravens had anywhere between $9M to $11M in Cap space. Now, you’re saying there’s only $4-5M in Cap space. What happened??!?
ANSWER: As has been said all along here on RSR, the early reports of Cap space never include a lot of factors that come into play when a team’s Cap space is calculated and really aren’t a very good predictor of how much Cap space the team will actually have.
Our Salary Cap preview article goes into greater depth about many of these factors, but the biggest variable is the 2017 adjustments (credit or debit) that are based on incentives that were earned or not earned in 2017.