{"id":810942,"date":"2026-03-14T01:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/810942\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:54:13","slug":"bengals-get-7-million-back-in-cap-space-thanks-to-insurance-payouts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/810942\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals get $7 million back in cap space thanks to insurance payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincyjungle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> have filled some big holes on the defense since the start of free agency, and now they have a little extra breathing room to fill one more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NFL teams received annual adjustments for 2026 based on insurance policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Bengals received over $7 million due to adjustments, which, as cap guru Andre Perrotta writes, can partly be attributed to Joe Burrow\u2019s nine games missed; since Cincinnati was paid by the insurance company and not charged for part of Burrow\u2019s salary, they get cap space in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The rest is likely due to NLTBE (not likely to be earned) LTBE (likely to be earned) incentives being reconciled, according to Perrotta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He then continued to write in the post that the Bengals\u2019 adjusted cap is now over $317 million, up from just under $310 million. The contract for Bryan Cook will count $8.66 million, and the deal for Boye Mafe will count $17 million toward the cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Once the cap hit for the Jonathon Allen contract is known, we will know how much space Cincinnati has. But for now, Perrotta writes, there is about $32,444,646 remaining before we count Draft and in-season hits (which should be around $18 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals have filled some big holes on the defense since the start of free agency, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,1561,2296,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-810942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-news","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116225039623444846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810942","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=810942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}