Last week, Paul Dehner Jr. of The Athletic put out a unique article featuring an offseason simulator in the form of a Google Sheets document. This gave Cincinnati Bengals fans a chance to see how the team could maneuver free agency with their current salary cap space.
The problem with this tool is that attached to every player is a fixed salary cap number, and some of the numbers are pretty big, like too big.
For example, Carl Lawson’s cap hit is $14 million, which is also the same as Joe Thuney.