Putting some numbers on these injuries

We all know that the injuries have been numerous this year. But I got to wondering how bad.... as in when you look at our salary cap, what percentage of that has been off the field with injuries this year.... I feel like that's a good measure, because a guy's cap number to some degree represents a weighting that reflects the player's level of importance to the team's success.

So I took the Top 30 players against our salary cap (everyone making more than $850K) minus the few guys that are only special teamers, and added in a few more lower number guys that were expected to be key contributors on offense or defense at the beginning of the season (I didn't include any acquisitions during the season like Roby or Ingram)... Then I divided them into 2 groups: 19 Offense (included Lutz) and 18 Defense... the numbers are pretty alarming.

First of all, of the 19 offensive players on that list, only 4 have played every game, and 2 of them are backup linemen.... they are Marquez Callaway, Cesar Ruiz, James Hurst, and Calvin Throckmorton. That in itself is devastating.

I took everyone's cap number, divided it by 17 to create a per game cap number for everyone on the list. Then figured out the total cost of the guys we were missing every week (including Onyamata's suspension)..... If you compute that over the 12 games we've played to date, we've been missing 47% of our total offensive cap spending due to injuries on the offensive side.

And while we've had some pretty tough injuries on the defensive side, especially on the D Line, just for comparison, we've had just under 15% of our defensive cap spending on the bench.

When you look at the Dallas game, the number climbs to over 71% on the offensive side....

How many teams in the NFL could compete with 30% of their total cap on 1 side of the ball??

I thought it was interesting enough to spend an hour figuring it out, and I so I decided to share...

Hoping that with the long rest, and hopefully a get well game against the Jets next, we get some guys back, and can finish strong... WhoDat