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The Buffalo Bills famously traded Stefon Diggs this offseason to clear a hefty salary off their books for an aging and declining wide receiver who didn’t want to be on the team. Naturally, Bills fans are now clamoring for the team to trade for an aging and declining wide receiver who is forcing his way off his current team.
The Bills, however, took on a massive dead-cap hit when they traded Diggs. So how would the financials even work?
The salary cap isn’t real
Psyche! A lot of people tell me this. They say the Bills can manipulate the salary cap to do whatever they want. The truth is this current Buffalo Bills team can’t really do that. They have a massive dead-cap number for players not even on the team because of trades, cuts, and retirements and those costs are fixed and can’t be changed.
