GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers' seven draft picks will count $5,315,527 against this year’s salary cap.
According to the latest NFL Players Association information, the Packers have $10,657,816 in available cap room for this season.
However, that doesn’t mean the Packers’ available cap space will be cut in half. Only the top-51 contracts count against the cap at this point. Five of the draft picks will count in the top 51, which essentially bumps more than $2.6 million in cap room outside the top 51. The other two draft picks fall below returning players who count $525,000 against this year’s cap.
That means the Packers will have between $8 million and $9 million in available cap space after the entire class is signed.
Last year, they had about $11 million left in cap space after they signed their 2015 draft picks.
They're going to need all the cap room they can come up with considering their 2017 free-agent class, which includes three of the five offensive-line starters (David Bakhtiari, T.J. Lang and Josh Sitton), plus running back Eddie Lacy.
The Packers have agreed to terms with one of their draft picks, fifth-rounder Trevor Davis.
Here's a breakdown of each draft pick's maximum allowable salary-cap figure for 2016, according to NFLPA records:
Kenny Clark, first round: $1,702,117
Jason Spriggs, second round: $909,873
Kyler Fackrell, third round: $623,512
Blake Martinez, fourth round: $545,848
Dean Lowry, fourth round: $545,848
Trevor Davis, fifth round: $506,481
Kyle Murphy, sixth round: $481,535
All rookie draft picks will sign four-year contracts. Clark’s will contain a fifth-year team option.
Clark, the 27th overall pick in the draft, should expect a slight increase over the deal signed by Cowboys cornerback Byron Jones, who was picked in the same spot last year. Jones’s four-year deal was worth up to $8,601,940 with nearly $7 million guaranteed (including a $4,515,956 signing bonus).