Salary Cap Q

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How can a team use a draft exception if under the cap

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There are all kinds of exceptions to the salary cap but I'm pretty sure that's not one of them. There are draft holds where 1st round picks take up space under the cap before being signed.

Generally speaking it's assumed you have all exceptions in place and you may have to renounce them to free up cap space so you can sign someone. Ball park figure if everyone opts in the Pels have $12 million in cap space. If they want to sign someone for $12 million they renounce exceptions like the MLE, Trade Exceptions and the BAE.

I’m surprised that one has never come up here before, but I guess it’s because the Pels haven’t drafted much lately. It makes sense to have so teams over the cap don’t dig into their MLE to sign rookies. I would think it’d be subject to the general rule I mentioned before, you usually have to renounce all of the standard exceptions to use cap space. So if the Pels wanted to use that $12 million in cap space I mentioned on Free Agents, they’d need to save part of it to sign rookies. Since we might have multiple rookies to sign staying over the cap and using exceptions would make the most sense unless you dump Hill or Randle leaves.

Hey Darryl