Yahoo! Sports · Nov 10, 2022
Claiming Johnathan Abram will cost Packers around $1M in cap space
The Green Bay Packers claimed safety Johnathan Abram off of waivers from the Las Vegas Raiders on Wednesday. If he passes his physical and joins the Packers, Abram will not only join the 53-man roster but also take up a chunk of cap space in 2022.
The Packers claimed the player and the contract.
Per Ken Ingalls, a CPA who tracks the salary cap, Abram will count just over $1 million on the Packers’ cap this year.
The team will be paying what’s left of his base salary in 2022.
Abram was a first-round pick of the Raiders in 2019. The team declined his fifth-year option, meaning he’s in the last year of his rookie deal and will become a free agent after this season.
