The Giants should be listed as being $2,656,846 under the cap, not the figure that the NFLPA website has up now

The NFLPA website (League Top 51 Cap Report) has the Giants listed as being $2,251,846 under the cap. This is flat out incorrect. Whoever is doing the inputting there counted Ryan Nassib's entire contract in the calculation when this should not be the case. Only the top 51 cap numbers factor into a team's overall salary cap figure. Nassib is ranked 59th on the team now. Click HERE to read about it.

I asked Jason Fitzgerald about this in an e-mail, and he explained to me that only portion of Nassib's deal that should count against the salary cap is his signing bonus proration for the 2013 season, which happens to be $113,400 as per his contractual breakdown from overthecap.com seen below:

Whoever was doing the data entry mistakenly subtracted Nassib's $518,400 cap number for 2013 instead of only his $113,400 signing bonus proration for this coming season. Dovetailing off if this point, I initially broke down the Giants' salary cap situation last Sunday as follows below:

• The Giants will have a different cap number either tomorrow or Tuesday - Sunday, July 28, 2013

I listed the Giants' cap number as being $2,770,246 under the cap last Sunday on account of the Pugh signing, Nassib signing, and release of K David Buehler & subsequent signing of FB Ryan D'Imperio. What I didn't include though was Nassib's signing bonus proration. Even though Nassib's 2013 cap number doesn't rank him in the Giants' top 51 list of cap numbers (he ranks 59th), his signing bonus proration for 2013 still counts towards this year's cap.

The same counts with regard to all players who aren't in a team's top 51 list of 2013 cap numbers. Their 2013 signing bonus prorations still count towards this year's salary cap during the top 51 phase on salary cap accounting that we are presently in (ending on September 5th) even if their base salaries do not.

Add to this that as Jason Fitzgerald & I were corresponding regarding this topic via e-mail that Jason also said that the NFLPA website was messed because these numbers didn't make any sense. I don't want to misquote him, so here's what he wrote me in response to my question about the Giants' salary cap number being off on the NFLPA's Top 51 League Cap Report website:

The NFLPA site is all messed up right now. I dont know if they are
updating the way they do something or if their data entry folks are on
vacation but things are all weird with the calculations. the only portion
for Nassib that should count is his signing bonus proration, but they are
counting the whole deal.

My guess is they will fix it in the next week or two but until then I
would trust whatever numbers you have rather than the cap report numbers.

Jason

This is why the Giants should be correctly listed as being $2,656,846 under the salary cap now instead of the incorrect figure of $2,251,846 listed above.


P.S. If you haven't yet, check out Jason's salary cap website (overthecap.com). It is bar none the absolute best website on the entire web with respect to not only quantitative analysis of the NFL's salary cap, but qualitative analysis as well. If you want to learn about how the salary cap works in the NFL, then go there often. I do everyday, and find something new and interesting all the time.