Salary Cap update for all 32 teams as of today (9/3/2013)

The Top 51 Rule will cease at midnight NY time on Thursday, September 5, 2013. Teams must be cap compliant with the new cap accounting rules by 4 pm NY time Wednesday, September 4, 2013 in the league office. I'll discuss what needs to specifically be done by the Giants in an article later today with respect to them dealing with their cap problems. As of today, the NFLPA Top 51 League Cap Report website has the Giants listed as being $2,891,712 under the cap. This is not an accurate figure that reflects the Giants' Top 51 cap numbers though. Often this summer, the people who update information on this website go days sometimes without updating the information correctly.

Using the Top 51 rules that are in effect now, I've got the Giants as being $3,386,452 under & Jason Fitzgerald has them listed as being $3,221,791 according to his Estimated Cap Room webpage. He and I are only separated by $164,661 though, so we're pretty much in the same ball park I think. The Giants are going to need to make more room though, since this figure will be adjusted to include a different set of rules in 3 days. These rules include the addition of the following:

• all 53 players on the 53-man roster, instead of just the Top 51 cap numbers 
• players on the Practice Squad
• players on Injured Reserve
• players who receive Injury Settlments
• players on the PUP list

This will quickly eat into the $3.3 million dollars or so of estimated cap room that I have the Giants having, and leave them needing to make restructures that will create approximately $2.5 to $3.5 million dollars more in cap room. As I noted above, I'll discuss what they need to specifically do in order to deal with their cap problems in another post later on today.

Keep in mind that these change very frequently throughout the day, particularly for teams that are scrambling to create more cap room by 4 pm tomorrow like the Chargers, Giants, Bears, Texans, Redskins, Chiefs, and Rams. Jason Fitzgerald from OverTheCap.com wrote about this issue a few days in the article below:

• Nine Teams Need to Make Cap Related Moves - August 29, 2013

Here are the cap figures for all 32 teams, first in order of most cap space to least cap space, and then in alphabetical order to help people to sort through the information in a more orderly information, if need be:

First, most cap space to least cap space as of today at this time:

Now here are the cap space figures in alphabetical order, for reference purposes: