JaMarcus Russell & Vince Young to be FAs in 2010?
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:50 am
The uncapped season might not be so bad after all.
ESPNs take:
Adam Schefter
Raiders wouldn't face penalty to dump Russell
"If an uncapped year does in fact come in 2010, the Great Salary Purge could accompany it. Teams would be able to dump bloated contracts they don't want without suffering the regular salary-cap ramifications. One such candidate could be Oakland quarterback JaMarcus Russell, who is scheduled to count $15 million against the cap for 2010, only $3 million of which is guaranteed. So if the Raiders wanted to pay the $3 million to Russell and let him go, they wouldn't have to pay his base salary or take the severe cap hit. It's a similar story in Tennessee with quarterback Vince Young, who has a $4.25 million roster bonus due March 10 to go along with a salary of $2.8 million. If the Titans decided to release him, they'd clear out over $7 million worth of payments. Of course the flip side to not having a salary cap is that teams could decide they are willing to pay Russell $15 million or Young over $7 million. But it's more likely that, with an uncapped year, there would be a whole new crop of free agents."