Cap situation for 2016 & 2017

Top salaries for 2016

Junior Galette - Cap Hit $12,100,000
Broderick Bunkley - Cap Hit $1,612,500


Brees - Cap Hit $30,000,000 Dead Cap $10,000,000
Jordan - Cap Hit $12,800,000 Dead Cap $12,800,000
Byrd - Cap Hit $10,900,000 Dead Cap $11,400,000
Evans - Cap Hit $8,200,000 Dead Cap $7,100,000
Lewis - Cap Hit $6,350,000 Dead Cap $7,200,000
Browner - Cap Hit $6,300,000 Dead Cap $5,350,000
Unger - Cap Hit $6,000,000 Dead Cap $1,500,000
Ellerbe - Cap Hit $5,900,000 Dead Cap $0
Colston - Cap Hit $5,900,000 Dead Cap $2,700,000
Strief - Cap Hit $4,600,000 Dead Cap $3,300,000
Hawthorne - Cap Hit $4,510,000 Dead Cap $2,260,000
Spiller, Morstead, Ingram, Vaccaro & Peat are the next 5

We don't have a lot of room to work with next year, but hopefully things work out on the field.



Top salaries for 2017. We need a qb & need to lock up Armstead. 2017 looks great for the Saints and should complete the rebuild. We should finally be a young team again.

Byrd - Cap Hit $11,700,000 Dead Cap $8,000,000
Jordan - Cap Hit $10,300,000 Dead Cap $9,600,000
Lewis - Cap Hit $9,100,000 Dead Cap $3,600,000
Evans - Cap Hit $7,800,000 Dead Cap $1,800,000
Browner - Cap Hit $6,300,000 Dead Cap $1,300,000
Ellerbe - Cap Hit $5,900,000 Dead Cap $0
Strief - Cap Hit $5,100,000 Dead Cap $2,200,000
Spiller - Cap Hit $4,850,000 Dead Cap $2,500,000
Ingram - Cap Hit $4,500,000 Dead Cap $1,800,000
Morstead - Cap Hit $4,000,000 Dead Cap $250,000
Peat - Cap Hit $3,107,317 Dead Cap $6,732,521

Combine this with 2 more drafts, 2 more UDFA classes, and 2 more FA periods.