Team Cap Space: $35,099,731 (per OTC)

[Basbear]

With the current read-out, 2026 is around 90,000,000..... that's without the rollover from this season, nor factors in the 9 draft picks(7th round should not count against 51 roster if they use it). Need to factor Icky and his deal.

 

I got to say...... (surprise!!) that's nearly too much! I believe the smoke about Higgins now. I even look at the 2026 free agents and know 3/4 the cream will be tagged or signed. Overall its awful and maybe worse than this past year. 

Panthers may have 110million in cap space with no one worthy to sign. 

Sorta understand the over paying for wharton, and safety...... even horn....

[TheSpecialJuan]

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/carolina-panthers  Team Cap Space: $25,159,732

However, cap #'s for Moehrig, Patrick Jones, and Dowdle not yet available.  

[TheSpecialJuan]

The current Panthers WR and secondary rooms: 

Wide receivers (WR) 18 Jalen Coker 88 Dan Chisena  17 Xavier Legette 15 T. J. Luther 12 Dax Milne 19 Adam Thielen -- Brycen Tremayne Defensive backs (DB) 27 Shemar Bartholomew CB 29 Akayleb Evans CB  8 Jaycee Horn CB  2 Mike Jackson CB 36 Demani Richardson SS --  Tre'Von Moehrig FS 26 Chau Smith-Wade CB

[jfra78]

22 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

The current Panthers WR and secondary rooms: 

Wide receivers (WR) 18 Jalen Coker 88 Dan Chisena  17 Xavier Legette 15 T. J. Luther 12 Dax Milne 19 Adam Thielen -- Brycen Tremayne Defensive backs (DB) 27 Shemar Bartholomew CB 29 Akayleb Evans CB  8 Jaycee Horn CB  2 Mike Jackson CB 36 Demani Richardson SS --  Tre'Von Moehrig FS 26 Chau Smith-Wade CB

Yea that's the worst WR room in the league...still going defense in the first

[carpanfan96]

32 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/carolina-panthers  Team Cap Space: $25,159,732

However, cap #'s for Moehrig, Patrick Jones, and Dowdle not yet available.  

Dowdle will count 2.75m against the cap, rest of his contract is incentives as far as I know. 
Jones will be 3-5m this year and the rest next season. 
Moehrig is going to count around 7m then 20, 24. 
 

So around 12m cap space. 

[jfra78]

1 minute ago, carpanfan96 said:

Dowdle will count 2.75m against the cap, rest of his contract is incentives as far as I know. 
Jones will be 3-5m this year and the rest next season. 
Moehrig is going to count around 7m then 20, 24. 
 

So around 12m cap space. 

I've always wondered how incentives count against the cap.  

[carpanfan96]

2 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

I've always wondered how incentives count against the cap.  

Two types of incentives 

 

simplified. 

LTBE or likely to be earned. 
these will count against the current seasons cap numbers as they are considered likely to be earned

 

ULTBE - Unlikely to be earned.
These don’t count on the current years cap and if earned will roll into the following season. 

[jfra78]

3 minutes ago, carpanfan96 said:

Two types of incentives 

 

simplified. 

LTBE or likely to be earned. 
these will count against the current seasons cap numbers as they are considered likely to be earned

 

ULTBE - Unlikely to be earned.
These don’t count on the current years cap and if earned will roll into the following season. 

Thanks that makes sense.  

[carpanfan96]

7 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Thanks that makes sense.  

Like Horns deal has 54m dollars tied up in games played. He gets 765k per game played from 2026-2029. 
 

54m of his contract is tied to per game bonuses and workout bonuses. 
 

So his contract, if he has a season where he doesn’t play the full slate of games, it would give Carolina roll over cap for the following season. 

Edited March 14 by carpanfan96

[Panthero]

I take mcmillian or warren in the first and then go defense the rest of the way.