Bears salary cap situation breakdown

With the cut of Jeremiah Attaochu yesterday, the #Bears are sitting right around $23.8M in cap space. That ranks 3rd in the league.

That also doesn't count Kyler Gordon ($1.579M) or Jaquan Brisker ($1.338M) yet.

Once accounted for, they'll have around $22.5M in space.

Eventually, the practice squad & full 53-man roster will count. Even so, the #Bears are very likely to roll into the season with close to $18M.

Assuming no big moves & nothing crazy in-season, it's very likely they'll end up rolling over $15M+ into 2023.

Even better news when looking at 2023 cap space is that the #Bears will have a minimal dead cap with just Trevathan, Cohen & Attaochu (right now) accounting for just $6.325M. I'd expect another $1M or so in dead cap w/ cuts in the coming months but still, much better spot.

According to Over The Cap, the #Bears would roll into 2023 with $99.665M in cap space. That's assuming a $225M cap & not counting any rollovers from 2022. As of right now, they'd also have 46 of the "required" 51 players accounted for. Next closest team is NE w/ $68.229M.

Barring anything unexpected, the #Bears are very likely to head into the next offseason with the largest amount of cap space available. It may not even be that close when all is said & done. It also leaves them plenty of flexibility to lock down Roquan Smith at any point, too.

Also worth noting that the #Bears will have some addition cap flexibility next year with cuts. They'll have 5 players that *could* save them $4M+ (Quinn $9.763M, Jackson $7.52M & Whitehair $5.8M as examples).

They also have just 3 players set to make $10M+ in 2023.