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NFL teams spending more than $1 billion on players who won’t suit up for them in Week 1

One billion sixty-four million eight hundred fifty-five thousand three hundred forty-one dollars.

That is, according to the data I pulled from OverTheCap.com, the exact combined amount of cap space that the league’s 32 teams are spending on (a) dead money, (b) players on Injured Reserve, (c) players on the Physically Unable to Perform list, (d) players on the Non-Football Injury/Illness list, and (e) players who are currently suspended.

As of Tuesday evening.

Not surprisingly, dead money consumes the lion’s share of that with teams taking cap hits on 424 players, totaling $839,765,546.