After last week’s signing of wide receiver Miles Boykin, the team’s last rookie to sign a deal, the Baltimore Ravens are positioned to start training camp with $11,695,875 in salary cap space, per Monday’s NFLPA salary cap report.
According to Russell Street Report’s Brian McFarland, the figure is the largest amount of cap room the Ravens have carried into training camp over the past five seasons, narrowly besting the $11.6 million in room the team had at this point in 2016. For a year-over-year comparison, Baltimore started camp with $8.5 million in cap room last season.
Though it’s a modest number compared to the war chests of other teams around the league — the Indianapolis Colts top the league with a massive $45.6 million in reserve — the Ravens nonetheless find themselves with a healthy amount of money that can be put toward in-season signings or eventually rolled over to the next season.
That’s a luxury that not all teams have. The Pittsburgh Steelers, for example, are carrying a league-low $984,968 in cap room entering camp. However, that figure that will probably grow a little after contract restructures and transactions by the Pittsburgh front office. Even then, for teams like the Steelers, Baltimore’s cap situation is enviable.
