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2022 Salary Cap: Houston’s Dead Money Problem

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Mark Lane over at Texanswire ran an interesting piece the other day on eleven players no longer on the Houston Texans roster that will count for a total of $35 million against the upcoming salary cap. For those keeping score at home, this makes the Texans #1 in the league in dead money spending, by far.

Mark Lane

[Zach] Cunningham will cost the Texans $12,832,500.

[Whitney] Mercilus... will cost the Texans $7,000,000.

[Shaq] Lawson didn’t even play a regular season down for the Texans in 2021, but he will count $5,275,500 in 2022.