Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast.

I'm Joe Kenya with me, as always, is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire.

Eric, we missed a week. We're back. I don't know if we're better than ever, but we'll find out.

Everybody will find out by the end of the episode if we're better than ever.

So we're going to be talking about free agency today.

A lot of moves have happened in the past two weeks.

We've been missing, so we're going to cover all of those.

First things first, let's talk about the salary cap.

Where do we sit with the salary cap?

Obviously, our number is shrink.

Yeah, we had upwards of $ 50 million going into the free agency period and then

with the additions that they've that they've added and then the the players that they've cut since then

they're still sitting around 25 million in cap space, but actually I'm sorry, around 35 million in

cap space, but then you add in, you know, about 11 million for the draft class.

It takes it down to 25 and then you you want that about $10 million to have workable income during the season.

So 10 million is a rough number that most people put on that.

So that leaves them with about $15 million in available funds to still spend in free agency.

And that can go a far away, which is why I don't think they're necessarily done in free agency.

I think they're going to add five or six more guys potentially, but they're going to be lower-end

guys. They could be undrafted free agents at this point as well, but there's still some room to

maneuver, but, you know, last last year bobquin kept an 18 million dollar

cushion going into the season so maybe tens a little conservative but in years prior in that 7 to 10

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