Update On How The Rookies Affect The Salary Cap For 2015

The Seattle Seahawks made a big trade on the second day of the NFL draft. It cut their total draft picks down from from eleven to just eight, but the jump up into the early portion of the third round actually led to an increase in salary cap expenditures for the 2015 season.

About six weeks ago I wrote an article explaining how much cap space the rookies would take up in 2015. Here is an update now that we only had eight selections, and moved up to draft Tyler Lockett.

As of right now we have only signed six of our eight draft picks. Only Frank Clark and Tyler Lockett are unsigned so I’m going to use projections for them courtesy of spotrac.com. Here is a look at each draft pick and salary…