The Detroit Lions pulled themselves back into the black on the NFL salary cap on Saturday. Detroit converted $6 million of left tackle Taylor Decker’s 2022 base salary to a signing bonus, a maneuver that created $4.5 million of cap space this season.
The restructure with Decker gives the Lions some needed breathing room around the salary cap. The Lions now have just over $2 million (exact figure: $2,056,210) in available cap space according to the figures at Over The Cap. The calculations at Spotrac list the Lions with $3.4 million but they do not include new QB Nate Sudfeld’s contract, the details of which have not yet been publicly verified.
