Entering Friday, the Buffalo Bills had a rapidly-decreasing chunk of money to sign free agents on Monday. That changed when the team traded Tyrod Taylor and opened up a considerable amount of salary cap space in the process.
Releasing Taylor clears $10.44 million from Buffalo’s salary cap figure and saves Buffalo $16 million in real money. What had been roughly $144.5 million in Top-51 salary cap commitments went down to $134.54 by subtracting Taylor and adding the next player. (In the offseason, only top 51 players count against the cap so by removing Taylor’s salary, the next one in line now counts where it didn’t before.