Browns still rank very high in available 2020 salary cap room

Even after signing several free agent additions to the roster, Andrew Berry and the Cleveland Browns still have ample salary cap room available. Big-ticket talents like Jack Conklin and Austin Hooper put a dent in the cap figure, no doubt. But the Browns still have quite a bit of 2020 cap room.

According to Field Yates of ESPN, the Browns sit third as of Monday in terms of cap room availability for the 2020 season. Only the Houston Texans and New York Jets have more than the roughly $43 million Cleveland holds after signing Andrew Billings over the weekend.

From Yates’ Twitter feed:

Official cap space by teams 1-11 (includes moves officially made):
1. HOU: 49,257,819
2. NYJ: 45,016,813
3. CLE: 43,703,760
4. LAC: 37,553,266
5. TEN: 32,509,301
6. WAS: 31,468,435
7. DET: 31,369,450
8. DEN: 29,819,797
9. DAL: 28,560,313
10. PHI: 27,868,177
11. IND: 26,863,345

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) March 30, 2020

Cap resource Over The Cap pegs the Browns with about $1.5 million less. However, their calculations indicate the Browns currently have the most cap space.

The discrepancy comes from the contracts that are estimated versus those that have been made official by the NFL.