With reports emerging on Wednesday that the Seattle Seahawks are shopping Jermaine Kearse while also attempting to acquire a defensive tackle, several Field Gulls commenters have asked whether moving on from Kearse would free up enough cap space to let the team fit Sheldon Richardson in. Luckily OvertheCap.com is a phenomenal resource, and so all the data we need to delve into this question can be found there.
Kearse's cap number for 2017 is $4.03M. Cutting him with a post-June 1 designation eliminates his $2.2M base salary and $1.83M in prorated signing bonus, but keeps the other half of the $1.