2008 Salary Cap Status

[Keith]

Originally Posted by KJ3

so does that mean if they do end up cutting weaver or reeves their contracts won't affect us anymore?

Oh, dead money is still dead money; the difference for 2009 is just that we are looking at one, maybe two, burdensome contracts. Nearly all teams carry some amount of dead money - a few years ago, the average was somewhere around $5 million, so maybe it's a little higher nowadays - and for the first time in awhile the Texans might be in line with the rest of the league, maybe even lower.

Even if you look at Weaver, Green, and Reeves as possible dead money in 2009, and since the Texans can treat two of them as post-6/1 cuts if they want, Rick Smith won't really be able to point to dead money as holding him back in the offseason for what he wants to do.