Jason Fitzgerald

3 weeks ago | overthecap.com | Jason Fitzgerald

June 1 marks the final day of the NFL calendar where any future bonus money accelerates into the 2025 league year if a player is cut or traded. Starting tomorrow, the rules now allow the team to defer all of that acceleration to 2026 if they move on from a player. June 2nd also marks the day when the NFL will officially process the post June 1 designations made earlier this year.

4 weeks ago | overthecap.com | Jason Fitzgerald

The Philadelphia Eagles cleared out of of their bigger mistakes of recent times by trading EDGE Bryce Huff to the 49ers for a mid round pick according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. As part of the trade the Eagles will pay out $9.05 million of Huff’s 2025 compensation as a bonus, as detailed by ESPN’s Field Yates. The Eagles had signed Huff as a free agent in 2024 to a three year, $51.1 million contract with $34 million guaranteed that seemed to go south the minute the season started.

4 weeks ago | overthecap.com | Jason Fitzgerald

Signing a 6th round pick that you just drafted is not really noteworthy but the Eagles have done something a little different with Cameron Williams that hasn’t really been seen before. In this case the Eagles guaranteed Williams $475,000 of his salary, bringing his total guarantee to $676,568 rather than the $201,568 that would normally come from the slot. The guarantee is split as $375,000 in 2025 and $125,000 in 2026. There is also a small salary increase in the first two years of the contract.

4 weeks ago | overthecap.com | Jason Fitzgerald

It is always interesting to look at stability year to year in NFL rosters. It can give you a good indication of what front offices and coaching staff’s really thought of last year’s roster and in some cases what salary cap/budgetary constraints can do to a roster. There are two good times to look at these numbers. The first is now as we get into OTA’s and can get a feel for how many different faces will be trying out for the football team in training camp.

1 month ago | overthecap.com | Jason Fitzgerald

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made some interesting comments related to the salary cap and revenue calculations at his press conference at the owners’ meetings this past week. Mike Florio of PFT summarized those comments and here are the most pertinent quotes from Goodell. “We did spend time today talking, at length, about areas of our Collective Bargaining Agreement that we want to focus on.