As the end of June, here’s how much cap space each of the NFC East teams has (per Overthecap.com):
Washington Redskins: $36.6 million
Philadelphia Eagles: $24.7 million
New York Giants: $16.3 million
Dallas Cowboys: $11.3 million
There’s a lot of analysis that could be done on the NFC East cap space: Which teams are particularly frugal, which teams have been handing out bloated contracts, which teams teams have massaged the cap more than others, and much more.
But instead of taking a deep dive into each team’s cap situation, today I’d like to look at the NFC East All-Cap team - the players with the highest 2020 salary cap hits at their positions. I’ve listed “Starters” and “Backups” in the table below, the starters are the players with the highest NFC East cap hit at their positions, the backups have the second highest cap hit.
| NFC EAST ALL-CAP TEAM: Offense | ||
| POS | Starter | Backup |
| Quarterback | Dak Prescott, DAL ($31.4 million) | Alex Smith, WAS ($21.4 million) |
| Running back | Ezekiel Elliott, DAL ($10.9 million) | Saquon Barkley, NYG ($8.6 million) |
| Wide Receiver 1 | Alshon Jeffery, PHI ($15.4 million) | DeSean Jackson, PHI ($8.6 million) |
| Wide Receiver 2 | Amari Cooper, DAL ($12.0 million) | Sterling Shepard, NYG ($8.5 million) |
| Wide Receiver 3 | Golden Tate, NYG ($10.4 million) | Marquise Goodwin, PHI ($4.3 million) |
| Tight End | Zach Ertz, PHI ($12.5 million) | Evan Engram, NYG ($3.4 million) |
| Left Tackle | Nate Solder, NYG ($19.5 million) | Tyron Smith, DAL ($13.5 million) |
| Guard 1 | Brandon Scherff, WAS ($15.0 million) | Kevin Zeitler, NYG ($12.5 million) |
| Center | Jason Kelce, PHI ($7.4 million) | Spencer Pulley, NYG ($2.8 million) |
| Guard 2 | Zack Martin, DAL ($15.0 million) | Brandon Brooks, PHI ($7.8 million) |
| Right Tackle | Lane Johnson, PHI ($15.9 million) | Morgan Moses, WAS ($8.6 million) |
| NFC EAST ALL-CAP TEAM: Defense | ||
| POS | Starter | Backup |
| Edge Rusher 1 | DeMarcus Lawrence, DAL ($21.9 million) | Ryan Kerrigan, WAS ($11.7 million) |
| Edge Rusher 2 | Leonard Williams, NYG ($16.1 million) | Tyrone Crawford, DAL ($9.1 million) |
| Interior Defender 1 | Fletcher Cox, PHI ($23.8 million) | Malik Jackson, PHI ($4.7 million) |
| Interior Defender 2 | Matthew Ioannidis, WAS ($6.2 million) | Gerald McCoy, DAL ($4.4 million) |
| Linebacker 1 | Blake Martinez, NYG ($10.0 million) | Sean Lee, DAL ($4.5 million) |
| Linebacker 2 | Jaylon Smith, DAL ($7.8 million) | Thomas Davis, WAS ($3.8 million) |
| Linebacker 3 | Kyler Fackrell, NYG ($4.6 million) | David Mayo, NYG ($3.6 million) |
| Cornerback 1 | James Bradberry, NYG ($10.0 million) | Kendall Fuller, WAS ($4.1 million) |
| Cornerback 2 | Darius Slay, PHI ($4.3 million) | Anthony Brown, DAL ($3.3 million) |
| Safety 1 | Landon Collins, WAS ($14.2 million) | Jalen Mills, PHI ($4.0 million) |
| Safety 2 | HaHa Clinton-Dix, DAL ($4.0 million) | Sean Davis, WAS ($3.5 million) |
| NFC EAST ALL-CAP TEAM: Special Teams | ||
| POS | Starter | Backup |
| Kicker | Dustin Hopkins, WAS ($3.3 million) | Aldrick Rosas, NYG ($3.259 million) |
| Punter | Riley Dixon, NYG ($2.8 million) | Tress Way, WAS ($2.6 million) |
Keep in mind that the cap charge is just funny money used for accounting purposes, and should not be confused with team strength or anything like that. Also, teams can easily structure or restructure contracts to make for more pleasing optics. Carson Wentz, for example, signed a four-year, $128 million contract with the Eagles, which equates to $32 million per year. But because the Eagles structured the contract to create cap space in 2020, he has a cap hit of “only” $18.6 million this year and doesn’t even show up in the table above. The Cowboys will likely do the exact same thing with Dak Prescott once he signs his contract, so his cap hit for 2020 will also eventually come down.
So while we shouldn’t read too much into the numbers above, the table does provide an interesting look at how teams allocate their cap resources, especially if we look at the split between offense and defense.
Everybody knows the Cowboys like to hand out bloated contracts to their offensive players - except they don’t. It is, of course, debatable whether they overpaid for Ezekiel Elliott, but overall they have just five offensive players in the NFC East All-Cap Team. The Eagles have seven, and if not for the cap trickeration with Wentz would have eight. So the next time somebody comes at you with another excuse about the lack of talent surrounding Wentz, politely point them in the direction of the flat earth society.
The Giants also have seven players making the list on offense, while the Redskins seem to think modern football can be won with defense; they have just three players on the offensive list (and Alex Smith is unlikely to ever play another snap of organized football), but six on defense.
The Cowboys on the other hand have the most players on defense on the All-Cap team with seven to the Redskins’ six, the Giants’ five, and the Eagles’ four. That suggests it’s okay to expect the defense to come through for the Cowboys on occasion, which wasn’t necessarily the case last year: the Cowboys lost every single game in which they did not score at least 30 points.
Of course, the data above is focused on the highest-paid veterans on each team, and ignores players still on their rookie contracts. Spotrac provides an easy breakdown of cap spend by team unit, and that may be just as instructive for the four NFC East teams. Per Spotrac.com, the Cowboys rank fifth in the NFL in percentage of 2020 cap dollars allocated to the offense, and 16th for the defense. Special teams ranks 13th, but that will drop once the team releases either Kai Forbath or Greg Zuerlein.
| DAL | PHI | NYG | WAS | |
| Cap spend by unit | NFL Rank | NFL Rank | NFL Rank | NFL Rank |
| Offense | 5 | 10 | 7 | 28 |
| Defense | 16 | 29 | 31 | 28 |
| Special Teams | 13 | 23 | 10 | 5 |
Every team in the NFL has to figure out which side of the ball it wants to emphasize more, and in Dallas it’s clearly the offense. Which may be good news in 2020, seeing how the other three NFC East teams are skimping out on the defense this year.
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