A wrap up of Detroit Lions' final days of OTAs, plus an early preview of training camp from Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez on Monday, June 11, 2018. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press
Since every NFL team has a defined amount of cap space for a season ($177.2 million this year), it’s teams that make the best use of that space that often have the most success on the field.
The Detroit Lions, as I wrote in Monday’s look at the biggest bargains on the 2018 roster, don’t have any bad contracts on their books, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some well-paid players who’ll be under the gun to live up to their deals this fall.