No one should be surprised by Saturday’s news that Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie will either agree to a significant pay cut or be released by the New York Giants. Even when the premature reports came out of a move to safety for DRC I continued to caution that there was no way the Giants would go into 2018 with Rodgers-Cromartie carrying an $8.5 million cap hit.
Rodgers-Cromartie remains a good player, but 32-year-old part-time defensive backs — and like it or not that is what DRC is — don’t get to count as a full 5 percent of team’s salary cap.