Elvis' 2025 cap and roster cleanup proposal

I think we need to move off Carr, whether that’s via trade or release. Carr is not the long term answer at QB, I know that, Kellen knows that, Mickey knows that, and this fan base knows that. Kellen needs to be able to see what he has in Spencer and/or Jake before a VERY good QB class coming in the 2026 draft. I will do two separate scenarios I would want, one being Carr trade, the other Carr release.

Trade:
Carr to Jets for a 5th and 6th round pick. He gets to go back with Adams and they get a stopgap QB. Saves $11,326,000
$40,767,813 over the cap

Restructures:
Cam: Saves $9,328,000
McCoy: Saves $6,744,000
Davis: Saves $5,928,000
Ruiz: Saves $6,384,000
Granderson: Saves $5,248,000
Mathieu: Saves $4,328,000
Shepard: Saves $2,904,000
Werner: Saves $2,520,000
$2,616,187 below the cap

Re-sign:
Young: 3 year 36 million. Lower his cap hit to around $5,000,000
Juwaun: 2 year 10 million. Lower his cap hit to around $2,000,000
$11,116,187 below the cap

Extension:
Olave: Lower his cap hit by $2,000,000
Foster: Lower his cap hit by $2,000,000
$15,116,187 below the cap

This is where I stop. We don't touch Taysom’s contract unless we have to (hopefully he takes a pay cut). If we need extra space we can gain an additional $10,250,000 cutting him after June 1st giving us a total of $25,000,000 in cap space to work with to sign draft picks and minimum/low salary players to round out the roster.

For a Carr June 1 designation, I would do everything above the same, expect I wouldn’t touch Cam’s contract, and we would just carry around 5 million in cap space until we get to June 1st where we would gain 30 million.

With these moves listed above we start the 2026 offseason with $75,136,375 in cap space, minus whatever the new extensions are. This is assuming all money in restructures are just pushed to 2026, it would likely be more.

In this scenario we get two extra draft picks in the back side of the draft, take every penny of Carr’s dead cap hit this season, and still gain around $25,000,000 in cap space, which is around what we have been operating with every season lately. Next year we can cut anybody of the older restructured players we want without cutting into any cap space, we would still have that $75,000,000 no matter if we cut all 3 of Cam, DD and Tyrann