{"id":793514,"date":"2026-03-05T10:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793514\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:36:30","slug":"nfl-free-agency-cap-casualty-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793514\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Free Agency: Cap Casualty Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I doubt the Green Bay Packers will spend much on compensatory free agents this year, because of the picks they\u2019re due to receive if their top players walk. On paper, the Packers are incentivized by the league\u2019s structure to limit their compensatory free agent action to up to two $5 million-ish or cheaper players (priced as backups), and that\u2019s if absolutely everyone walks (if any of the team\u2019s top six unrestricted free agents re-signs with the club, that count would drop by one, for example). If you\u2019d like to read more about that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acmepackingcompany.com\/green-bay-packers-free-agency\/79964\/how-the-green-bay-packers-handle-compensatory-draft-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">check out the long piece I wrote about Green Bay\u2019s compensatory pick situation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With that said, there\u2019s no pressure on the team (outside of the cap situation) to stay out of the cap casualty (or trade) market, since these players do not impact the compensatory pick formula. Look for the Packers to work around the NFL\u2019s parity system this offseason in free agency (for any fault you might have with general manager Brian Gutekunst, he\u2019s done a very good job of manipulating the compensatory pick formula, which we described in our previous piece).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, who are these work-around free agents? Below is the full list of players (who took at least one snap in 2025) who have been waived or released by teams since the postseason and are available on the street right now. We\u2019ll keep this list updated as more news breaks throughout the free agent cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This list doesn\u2019t include \u201cplayers expected to be released,\u201d just players who are actually available right here and right now. When those cuts are official and the players are actually made available, this list will update.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Defensive Linemen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I doubt the Green Bay Packers will spend much on compensatory free agents this year, because of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,9684,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-793514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-free-agency","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116176131725399274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793514","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=793514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}