Chiefs Cap Situation

The NFL has yet to set a team salary cap for 2012, but teams are expecting it to be about the same as last year: $120,375,000. The Chiefs also have $24,014,337 they didn’t use against their 2011 cap that they can use in 2012.
So the Chiefs’ adjusted salary cap for 2012 is $144,389,337.
Subtracting total salary cap obligations of $107,009,195 (explained below), that leaves the Chiefs with $37,380,142 of available cap room. The top 51 cap numbers count against the salary cap.

Salary cap obligations

• Players: The Chiefs have 48 players under contract with total cap obligations of $101,941,980.

P Player Base salary Cap (inc. bonuses)
LB Tamba Hali $11,250,000 $14,500,000
DE Tyson Jackson $8,005,000 $10,755,000
DE Glenn Dorsey $5,856,000 $8,193,000
CB Brandon Flowers $5,750,000 $8,000,000
QB Matt Cassel $5,250,000 $7,575,000
DB Eric Berry $4,842,800 $5,200,500
RB Jamaal Charles $3,250,000 $4,833,333
WR Steve Breaston $2,050,000 $4,550,000
OL Branden Albert $2,717,500 $3,793,125
LB Derrick Johnson $3,000,000 $3,250,000
OL Ryan Lilja $2,100,000 $2,493,750
PK Ryan Succop $2,000,000 $2,400,000
LB Demorrio Williams $1,500,000 $2,300,000
P Dustin Colquitt $1,800,000 $2,280,000
WR Jon Baldwin $718,255 $1,716,273
LB Andy Studebaker $1,480,000 $1,530,000
RB Dexter McCluster $540,000 $1,100,000
WR Terrance Copper $825,000 $900,000
DB Javier Arenas $490,000 $848,750
OL Rodney Hudson $504,368 $796,841
LS Thomas Gafford $650,000 $741,668
LB Brandon Siler $700,000 $725,000
OL Jon Asamoah $490,000 $718,030
DB Donald Washington $565,000 $694,947
TE Tony Moeaki $490,000 $661,662
LB Justin Houston $465,000 $657,812
DE Allen Bailey $465,000 $628,986
TE Jake O’Connell $615,000 $615,000
CB Jalil Brown $465,000 $592,325
LB Cory Greenwood $540,000 $566,250
DB Kendrick Lewis $490,000 $541,725
WR Jeremy Horne $540,000 $540,000
DB Kyle McCarthy $540,000 $540,000
QB Ricky Stanzi $465,000 $528,763
DT Jerrell Powe $465,000 $492,670
OL Steve Maneri $490,000 $490,000
DL Brandon Bair $465,000 $467,333
LB Caleb Campbell $465,000 $465,000
OL Darryl Harris $465,000 $465,000
OL David Mims $465,000 $465,000
DL Anthony Toribio $465,000 $465,000
LB Cameron Sheffield $415,000 $463,612
LB Gabe Miller $390,000 $450,625
FB Shane Bannon $390,000 $390,000
OL Rob Bruggeman $390,000 $390,000
RB Shaun Draughn $390,000 $390,000
WR Jamar Newsome $390,000 $390,000
DL Lucas Patterson $390,000 $390,000

• So-called “dead money”: NFL teams are obligated to count bonus money given to players released after June 1 against their salary cap. The Chiefs released 10 such players last season for a total of $62,215 in dead money.

P Player Cap number
FB Shane Bannon $38,544
OL Mike Ingersoll $4,667
TE Charlie Gantt $3,334
OL Davis Mims $3,334
DE Lucas Patterson $3,334
LB Amara Kamara $2,667
OL Butch Lewis $2,334
OL Chris Harr $1,667
CB Demond Washington $1,667
WR Josue Paul $667

• Other obligations: The Chiefs have a charge against their salary cap of $5,005,000 for incentives that were earned by DE Tyson Jackson and S Eric Berry.

Players without contracts
• The following 21 players have no contract for 2012:
RB Jackie Battle
TE Anthony Becht
LB Jovan Belcher
WR Dwayne Bowe
CB Brandon Carr
CB Travis Daniels
DE Wallace Gilberry
DL Amon Gordon
DL Kelly Gregg
RB Thomas Jones
DB Reshard Langford
FB Le’Ron McClain
DB Jon McGraw
OL Ryan O’Callaghan
QB Kyle Orton
QB Tyler Palko
DB Sabby Piscitelli
TE Leonard Pope
OT Barry Richardson
WR Jerheme Urban
C Casey Wiegmann