My e-mail box was full Wednesday morning with many of you commenting on the post I put up regarding Miami's total payroll in 2009. (It's below this one in case you missed it.)
Let's make a deal: If you have comments, leave them here please. I read most of the comments posted here the same day. I can also answer here. I do not always get around to reading your e-mails the same day and on days like yesterday cannot respond to everyone.
So say your peace on this forum as many of the e-mails were quite interesting and gave me ideas for future posts. This is one of those.
Many of you requested I post the salary cap numbers for the Dolphins if I had them. You're darn tootin' I have them. The salary cap numbers are important because there is a cap limit of $127,997,000 in 2009.
Obviously the Dolphins were under the limit this year, at approximately $113 million in actual cap cost plus another $8-9 million in dead money, or players no longer with the team that are still on the books -- players such as Ernest Wilford, Vonnie Holliday, Matt Roth ($1,087,000) and others.
Remember, the player's cap value is not necessarily what he is making in the season. Cap is figured by adding the player's base salary, plus pro-rated signing bonus, plus other bonuses. The pro-rated signing bonus means that if Vernon Carey received $12 million to sign his new contract, he got that money this year and it went on the total payroll.
But for cap purposes only $2 million of that $12 million counts on a pro-rated basis for 2009 because Carey signed a six-year deal and $12 million divided by six years equals $2 million per year against the cap.
What follows are the 2009 salary cap values of the players on the Dolphins roster. These figures were obtained by The Miami Herald from sources far and wide.
Player Cap value
Jason Allen $2,280,000
Will Allen $5,631,240
Charlie Anderson $2,583,333
Akin Ayodele $2,756,240
Yeremiah Bell $4,450,000
Joe Berger $789,573
Davone Bess $394,740
Ronnie Brown $6,056,933
Greg Camarillo $1,750,000
Vernon Carey $5,400,000
Dan Carpenter $394,990
Chris Clemons $350,625
Pat Cobbs $755,000
Channing Crowder $4,016,000
Tyrone Culver $1,047,906
Vontae Davis $1,225,000
John Denney $725,500
Lionel Dotson $401,310
Anthony Fasano $541,240
Jason Ferguson $4,006,240
Brandon Fields $479,758
Ikaika Alama-Francis $460,000
Andrew Gardner $337,443
Nate Garner $391,240
Ted Ginn Jr. $2,694,323
Jake Grove $4,600,000
Brian Hartline $436,243
Joey Haynos $391,240
Chad Henne $607,740
Lex Hilliard $316,240
Nate Jones $755,000
Kendall Langford $672,305
Jake Long $9,606,240
Brennan Marion $215,000
David Martin $1,270,000
Tony McDaniel $1,025,000
Phillip Merling $2,149,615
Quentin Moses $466,240
Lydon Murtha $200,588
Chad Pennington $5,750,000
Lousaka Polite $1,006,240
Joey Porter $7,400,000
Kory Sheets $218,000
Justin Smiley $3,800,000
Sean Smith $546,250
Paul Soliai $583,740
Randy Starks $3,640,000
Jason Taylor $1,102,860
Tyler Thigpen $378,824
Donald Thomas $338,657
Reggie Torbor $3,600,000
Patrick Turner $488,575
Cameron Wake $635,000
Erik Walden $391,240
Pat White $726,175
Ricky Williams $4,250,000
Gibril Wilson $4,000,000
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