Summer Salary Cap Mailbag #2: Back to the Basics

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Welcome back to our summer salary cap mailbag series. Our first mailbag was pretty popular, so thank you all for participating with wonderful questions and insightful comments. As we ramp up towards free agency opening the afternoon of Sunday, June 30th, we’re really in the peak time of year to discuss these cap issues, so I’ll likely do one or two more next week, and possibly continue the series into July as we react to the moves made around the league rather than just speculate about them.

For this edition of the mailbag, I opted for some questions that more lay the groundwork for how some salary cap and free agency stuff works. Then, we can build to more…