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2012 Free Agency and the salary cap - Cincy Jungle
The Bengals finished the 2011 season with a total cap of $103,415,200 ($17.6M below the cap). Next year we have 34 players under contract for a cap charge of $71,579,200. An additional 6 players are not under contract but restricted (RFA: LS Clark Harris, FB Chris Pressley, LB Dan Skuta; EFA: RB Cedric Peerman, S Jeromy Miles, LB Vincent Rey). With an estimated team cap of $125,565,000 that's almost $54M in cap room to start improving the team. Some of this will go towards the draft picks, including the extra 1st rounder picked up on the Palmer trade, but given our position in the draft these contracts won't be significant.