The most important part of building a team for your future is via the draft. It is truly the way that has yielded the most success in recent years. However, we have seen other teams go very heavily in free agency and pick up some solid pieces for their team. In order to obtain some quality starters or even superstars for your team, you have to be in a great situation, cap-wise. Here is a look at the cap space for all of the NFC North teams. These numbers of provided by Overthecap.com. Keep in mind that the amount will, most likely, change a lot in the next few weeks with some roster moves upcoming.
Chicago Bears
$26,225,726
Detroit Lions
$21,203,118
Minnesota Vikings
-$16,040,779
Green Bay Packers
-$50,790,970
It will be very interesting to see what happens with all 4 of these franchises in the next months.