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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 600868">That's not right.  With the CBA signed in 2011, unused cap space is carried over from year to year.  There is no longer an incentive to front load contracts to use up cap space.  Further, having a cushion to handle the unexpected in-season is prudent now that unused space can be carried over.Guys put on PUP or IR, injury settlements, vested veterans released from the 53 man roster after opening day all count against the cap...replacement players eat away at the cap cushion.Thompson has been spending under the cap the last few years...around $8 - $10 mil, give or take, at final cut downs.  This number declines somewhat throughout the season.  As an example, if memory serves, Thompson started 2014 with about $8 mil in cap space and ended with around $5 mil in cap space, with 2014 being about as injury-free as one can expect.I'd consider a $5 mil cap cushion to be the least I'd expect.Edit: I stand corrected on the cap cushion declining throughout in 2014...it looks like it started at $8 mil and ended at $8 mil.  The consideration is still important...in a less injury free season.</blockquote>

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