Two years ago, the Detroit Lions were paralyzed with a massive amount of dead salary cap money. The team spent some $67 million for players no longer on the team’s roster.
That figure dropped to a more manageable $20.3 million in the 2022 offseason, with GM Brad Holmes and salary cap guru Mike Disner processing through the bad contracts from the prior regime nicely. In 2023, that digesting of the dead cap continues.
