The Ghost of Contracts Past is not scheduled to make his annual January visit to the Giants. After years of being haunted by dead-salary cap space tied to aborted contracts for players like Kenny Golladay, Darren Waller, Daniel Jones, Logan Ryan, and others, the Giants will enter the offseason with a negligible amount of liabilities, according to OverTheCap.com.
In fact, both the Giants and Chiefs have the lowest 2026 dead-cap space in the NFL, at about $216,000 each. At the other end of the spectrum, the Jets carry roughly $71.2 million in dead-cap space.
While the current numbers might not indicate that the Giants are swimming in 2026 projected cap space—around $17.4 million, which ranks 19th-most in the league per OverTheCap—the salary cap situation is healthier than it has been throughout most of the past decade of losing. More importantly, the Giants have the ability to create additional flexibility through a variety of means, unhindered by past contractual mistakes.
The Giants’ relatively clean salary-cap slate, combined with their projected space jumping to $112 million in 2027 and $238 million in 2028, according to OverTheCap, gives the team significant financial flexibility. This ability to navigate free agency or trades without constraint is one of the reasons the head coaching vacancy is expected to attract top candidates, as multiple league sources shared with The Post.
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