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The numbers behind the Giants’ salary cap

Where’d all the money go?

The Giants are about $4.4 million under their salary cap for 2017, according to NFLPA records which do not yet include the official contracts for guard John Jerry and running back Orleans Darkwa.

That’s not a lot.

Instead of trying to figure out how the Giants will get by with that small fraction of the cap space (about 2.6 percent of the $168.8 million they can spend), let’s take a look at how they spent the other 97.4 percent.

Let’s start with the salary cap. The Giants, like every team, are given a cap of $167 million for 2017.