Allen Park — With the official opening of free agency arriving Wednesday afternoon, the Detroit Lions have less cap space to work with than most teams, but still enough to be active plugging some roster holes.
According to our calculations, the Lions currently have a little more than $27 million in space entering the new league year. That’s based on the $177.2 million salary cap for the 2018 season, $4.15 million in unused cap space carried over from last year, $6.44 million in dead money from players no longer on the roster ($4.8 million from former linebacker DeAndre Levy) and $147.