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Excess cap room makes trades likely

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Monday, March 9, 2009

NFL teams are no longer handcuffed when it comes to trades. In the formative years of the salary cap, trades were difficult. Trading a player forces a team to take a cap hit for the remaining proration of the traded player's signing bonus. When the cap was smaller and franchises were operating near the limit, that made trades difficult. With an uncapped year scheduled for 2010, all salary-cap hits are taken in 2009, but there is so much room it hardly matters. Eleven teams have more than $ ...

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