was initially reported on April 21<\/a>.<\/p>\nAccording to the website Spotrac.com, which tracks professional sports contracts, Moss signed a one-year deal worth $1.7 million with $375,000 guaranteed. He initially signed a two-year deal as a free agent last offseason and was scheduled to earn $3.475 million this season. The move saves the Bengals $1.7 million of salary cap space.<\/p>\n
Moss suffered a season-ending neck injury in practice prior to the the Nov. 3 game against the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n
The Bengals signed veteran free agent Samaje Perine in the offseason and have Chase Brown coming off a great second half of the season as the main back, and they also selected running back Tahj Brooks in the sixth round of the recently completed NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
According to Spotrac.com, the Bengals now have $25.9 million in salary cap space, but as always keep in mind to deduct about $10-15 million from that for things the team accounts for that the website doesn’t — signing draft picks, paying for the practice squad, money set aside for signing players during the season when injuries arise and for incentives, among other things. That still leaves roughly $12-15 million, and they can add another $5.85 million to that when they release veteran linebacker Germaine Pratt, as expected. Some of that money could be used toward an extension for defensive end Trey Hendrickson and\/or to sign a veteran safety where depth and competition is much needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) – The Bengals will have a little more salary cap space to use for the rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,6049,227,256,2296,4092,7,6,15,782,7120,6484,3800],"class_list":{"0":"post-13656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cap-space","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-contract","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-draft","17":"tag-offseason","18":"tag-salary","19":"tag-veteran","20":"tag-zack-moss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114429363930402223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}