Lions 2020 Salary Cap situation

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Detroit Lions will be more than $44 million under new salary cap in 2020

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Lions 2019 Salary Cap situation

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The Lions should have a favorable salary cap situation in 2020. Most likely, more salary cap space is going to be freed up. Many needs, including depth, are going to have to be addressed.

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My guess is the Lions will be somewhere in the middle of the NFL regarding the amount of dead salary cap space in 2020.

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NFL, NFLPA projecting salary cap of $200 million in 2020

New CBA could push cap as high as $205 million for 2020

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Whether the NFL players vote for the new NFL CBA or not ( I am against it because of playoff expansion ), it's evident that there's going to be a major NFL Salary Cap increase in 2020 from the $188.2 million number for the 2019 season.

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NFL sets 2020 salary cap at $198.2 million

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Based on reports, it's surprising the Salary Cap for 2020 wasn't at least $ 200 million.

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NFL salary cap grows by yet another $10 million for 2020 season

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According to the following website, the Lions are 14th in terms of the most available salary cap space ($48,505,888 - top 51 salaries ) .

The Lions are 2nd in the most dead salary cap space ( $15,757,468 ). Not exactly a statistic that looks good on Bob Quinn's record as Lions GM.


www.spotrac.com/nfl/cap/

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Lions rank 2nd in available salary cap room entering the 2020 NFL Draft

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If as expected the Lions sign Kenny Golladay to a contract extension, that is also going to cost least several million of salary cap space for the Lions, for the 2020 season. The Lions have salary cap flexibility beyond getting the 2020 Draft Class under contract and signing Golladay to a contract extension. But it's not as much cap space as the Lions 2nd most available salary cap number from last week reflects on the surface.

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The Lions are still sitting on almost $30 million in cap space for 2020

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Christian Covington agreed to contract terms with the Broncos earlier this week.

The Lions coming to a contract agreement with Taylor Decker is probably going to take more compromise than in most contract negotiations with NFL veteran players. How much does Decker value financial security compared to letting the 2020 season play itself out could easily be the difference in whether the two parties come to a contract agreement in the next 10 plus months.