So the Niners have Deebo, Aiyuk, Williams, CMC, Bosa, Warner, Hargrave, Kittle, and a couple others all being PAID.
Cards have Kyler and Buddha as the only guys with significant salaries and I see people talking about the Cards and cap space restrictions. Please explain.
Yes I know Purdy is being paid nothing but that’s 1 guy. Marv is on a rookie deal too.
The Cardinals have managed to get out of cap hell in one season and are now sitting on $25M in available cap space. They have no cap space restrictions at this time or in future years.
So why do the 49ers have more cap space then the Cardinals in 2024? Well that is because the 49ers have a ton of voided years baked into those contracts that you have listed.
In 2025 Ward, Greenlaw, Feliciano, Campbell and Yiadom will all have their contracts Void. That will create
$18M in dead money. That is on top of the
$16.5M of dead money already created from the 2024 offseason.
Then in 2026 Samuel, Kittle, Juszczyk, Floyd, Gross-Matos, Collins, McKivitz, Jennings and Elliott will all have their contracts Void creating
$61.36M in dead money.
Then in 2027 Warner, Williams, Hardgrave, will have their contracts void creating at least
$23.3M in dead money and that number will probably increase as Trent Williams just had his contract redone.
Compare that to the Cardinals who only have Two Players with Voided years in their contract. Both that void in 2026:
Jalen Thompson
Jonah Williams
That will create about
$11M in dead money in 2026 for the Cardinals