5 Moves the New England Patriots Can Make with About $15 Million in Cap Room

April 22, 2012   ·   Samer Ismail   ·   Jump to comments

According to various web sites, including ProFootballTalk.com, the Patriots had approximately $10 million in cap room at the end of March.
With the probable, if not definite, retirement of Matt Light, the Patriots should gain at least $3 million in cap space—despite having an active free agency in which they brought in over a dozen players.
So: What can they do with that money?
Here are some possibilities. Unlike some of the wilder scenarios that have been suggested in the media (e.g., a restricted free-agent tender for Mike Wallace), all of these are at least plausible.
 
Sign Their Rookies
This one's obviously a given, but it won't cost as much as some people think. That's because the rookies' base salaries are already included in the cap. The salary cap, at this point in the offseason, includes only the top 51 salaries. Thus, either a rookie has a salary cap so small that he doesn't break the 51, or he has a salary cap hit large enough to pus...

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