The Giants’ 2018 payroll has been an Excel spreadsheet art installation thematically representative of chickens coming home to roost. It has been the perfect storm of escalating salaries exceeding performance and injuries and the Giants will have to carry these various abscesses into 2019. How bad is it?
First, the competitive balance tax (CBT) threshold will rise from $197 million this season to $206 million in 2019. Excluding arbitration cases and some choice free agents they might want to re-sign (Hundley and Holland), the Giants have firm CBT figures for the following players:
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| PLAYER | CBT FIGURE |
|---|---|
| PLAYER | CBT FIGURE |
| POSEY | 18. |