Today’s snapshot of the NFL’s projected salary cap rankings for the 2018 presents a bad picture for the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, actually, it looks terrible.
It’s the Dolphins currently projecting to be over the salary cap kind of terrible. It’s the Dolphins sitting in the second-worst salary cap situation of any NFL team kind of terrible.
With 55 players under contract, the Dolphins would be between $7 million and $8 million over a projected $177 million salary cap. And that’s just for the top 51 contracts the NFL counts during the offseason.
So Mike Tannenbaum, the Dolphins executive vice president who’s primary function is to handle the team’s cap affairs, needs to get on his horse.