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Originally Posted by Daseal
The league has ways to make room so you can sign your rookies. I've NEVER seen a team draft a rookie and fail to sign them because they were out of cap room. There's some way they can fit them in. Someone can explain better than me, but you're right.
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Actually you both are wrong, the rookie cap is a cap with in the main salary cap. It is a cap with in a cap. Teams will have to restructure salaries or cut players if they do not have enough over all salary cap space to sign their rookies.
The rookie cap was a clever move by the owners to keep rookie salaries in check. They can tell a money hungry rookie, " look this is the maximum I can pay you due to the rookie salary cap."
But it is part of the overall salary cap.