Being an NFL general manager is not for the faint of heart. <\/p>\n
Having to manage over $300 million in cap space<\/a> with several stars – and borderline superstars – on your roster is tough, and making decisions about which players to prioritize keeping on your roster as a result of that cap hit is even tougher. It’s a situation that general manager Brad Holmes likely wants to avoid dealing with this upcoming offseason.<\/p>\n With free agency set to kick off in a little over a month, Holmes has to figure out what to do about the Detroit Lions’ current cap situation. They’re in the red to the tune of $8.5 million headed into 2026, so some adjustments have to be made to remain competitive in free agency. <\/p>\n One Lions analyst’s solution to this is pretty neat, though: adjust Amon-Ra St. Brown’s and Jared Goff’s lofty deals, and cut Graham Glasgow, to create over $40 million in cap space. <\/p>\n Lions analyst offers 3 moves that opens the door wide open for huge free agency<\/p>\n In the clip, the Bleacher Report analyst<\/a> gives three moves for the Lions that would open up that cap space: restructuring St. Brown’s deal which would bring his cap hit down from $33.1 million to just $11.5 million, cutting Glasgow before June 1 to save $5.56 million with just a $2.8 million dead cap hit, and restructuring Goff’s contract to drop the hit from $69 million to just $47 million. <\/p>\n The key to these moves<\/a> lies with the St. Brown and Goff restructurings, where the Lions in this scenario would be tossing remaining money left on St. Brown’s current deal into a new extension down the road. That’d make the future cap hit a lot less volatile for the Lions, especially since it’s safe to assume St. Brown will be a Lion for a long, long time. <\/p>\n As for Goff, this hypothetical only accounts for $30 million getting restructured as opposed to the maximum amount getting the same treatment for St. Brown’s deal. <\/p>\n