With a free agency around the corner, Detroit Lions will not have a lot of space available for shopping in the market. One of the main reasons is the abundance of deadly space.
Only three teams have a higher dead ceiling value in the 2021 season than the Lions. Detroit is carrying more than $ 20,262 million in a room with dead lids.
Almost everything is related to the Matthew Stafford trade. The Lions ate $ 19 million in a dead-end room under Stafford’s contract when they agreed to trade him with the Rams. Romeo Okwara costs the Lions just over $ 900,000, and Jason Huntley is worth $ 217,734, after the Lions cut the fifth round pick a year ago.
The top three Lions teams are there primarily because of the quarterback transactions and the massive head kicks associated with them.
Philadelphia has a limit of over $ 40 million, with over $ 34 million related to Carson Wentz’s pending transaction with the Colts. The Eagles also swallowed $ 5.8 million in the dead ceiling this week when they released WR DeSean Jackson.
Stafford’s new team, the Los Angeles Rams, follows. They paid more than $ 22 million in dead money to Goff in the pending transaction. Todd Gurley, who was sent to the pack last season, still counts as a $ 8.4 million hit in 2021. Defender Leonard Floyd counts $ 3.3 million after he was released.
Carolina also has more dead money than lions due to a series of moves. Nearly half of the Panthers’ dead money comes from DT Kawann Short, which was released earlier this month.