Miguel's Mailbag: Comparing Patriots' positional cap allocation to rest of NFL

All right, everyone. Let's dive into this week's questions:



Question: Can you please compare the Patriots to these numbers?


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Answer: Please note both sets of my numbers include the 12 Patriots on Injured Reserve and NFI. I'm classifying Matthew Slater as a wide receiver, Nate Ebner as a safety, and Brandon King as a linebacker in order to have an oranges to oranges comparison with Jason's numbers.
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Question from Twitter follower The Badger: What’s Adrian Clayborn's cap hit if we canned him next year?

Answer: It's $2 million. His 2019 $6 million cap number consists of:

• $3.5 million salary


• $500,000 in 46-man active roster bonuses


• $2 million signing bonus proration from his 2018 four million signing bonus.

• Cordarrelle Patterson - Patterson is my current prediction for the Patriot to get extended before the end of the regular season. Why? He excels at being a kickoff returner and his value to a team is probably with the Patriots who continues to value special teams' play.


• Stephen Gostkowski - Could see Gostowski agreeing to a deal that makes him a Patriot for life.


• Ryan Allen


• James Ferentz


• Albert McClellan


• Ramon Humber


• John Simon


• LaAdrian Waddle


• Phillip Dorsett


• Trent Brown - Can't see the Patriots making Brown an offer that would make him forego becoming a free agent.


• Josh Gordon


• Jonathan Jones


• Danny Shelton


• Malcom Brown


• Chris Hogan - His lack of targets has hurt his market value.


• Jason McCourty - Think that Jason waits to see what happens with Devin during the offseason.


• Brian Schwenke - Can't recall the Patriots ever extending a player who was on IR. (The same is the case for the following four players -- Matt Tobin, Ulrick John, Eric Rowe and Jeremy Hill.)


• Cody Hollister - He is going to be an ERFA, so he has to accept the Patriots tender in order to play in 2019.


• Trey Flowers - His value to other teams may be dramatically more than it is to the Patriots.