Panthers To Free Up $5.7 Million In Cap Space June 1St

[R0CKnR0LLA]

That's when Travelle Wharton's cap hit finally comes off the books. By that time pretty much every free agent worth a damn will be off the market though.

Hopefully, the Panthers have already worked out deals with a few quality free agents and are just waiting for this move to finalize until they can push through the paperwork and officially announce that they are signed. Also, this means it's much more likely that we'll be able to re-sign Shockey (not resign for you grammar nazis).

I'll be watching that date (and maybe the following few days after) specifically to see if our FO has any tricks left up their sleeves. I guess we'll see what happens...

[nctarheel0619]

Damn Trevelle was a big hit.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

His hit was actually over 7 million. 5.7 is what we're freeing up but he still has some dead money counting against the cap both this year and next.

[Gallagher]

Yep, hopefully we've told Shock to hold tight until then. Too bad we missed out on Garay but, at least we got Applewhite back. Really by that time, after the draft, even if the FA market is thin, I don't think we'll have too many needs as a team.

[PhillyB]

sweet we can sign our draft picks!

[Ivan The Awesome]

Money money money mooooooooooooney. Money!

[jtnc]

I don't think any "quality" free agents are gonna wait all the way until June to be paid.

[R0CKnR0LLA]

I don't think any "quality" free agents are gonna wait all the way until June to be paid.

if your best offer is from a team that needs to wait a bit until they have the cap space I don't see why you wouldn't take that. the base salary doesn't get paid out until the regular season starts anyway and that's the biggest chunk of a contract normally.

here read this

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/14/bucs-big-contracts-are-cash-flow-friendly/

some of the most sought out players in the entire free agent market signed with the Bucs knowing they'd have to wait to see any money at all

[pantherclaw]

I hope ya don't have your hopes up very high.

Lol

[Herbert The Love Bug]

[Kurb]

Wouldn't surprise me if they sat on it for the season

[carpanfan96]

Wouldn't surprise me if they sat on it for the season

This, they desperately need that money for next season. They might use a bit of it to sign Shockey or a similar level FA, but I wouldn't expect much more beyond that.

[Donald LaFell]

Wouldn't surprise me if they sat on it for the season

I don't understand why most teams are not up against the cap every year. We could give Smitty a buncha money now to reduce his cap high later.

[megadeth078]

This, they desperately need that money for next season. They might use a bit of it to sign Shockey or a similar level FA, but I wouldn't expect much more beyond that.

I really don't think anyone is expecting anything higher than a Shcokey level FA...