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 attached to aborted contracts for 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, the Giants and Chiefs have the lowest 2026 dead-cap space (about $216,000 each). The Jets are at the other end of the spectrum (about $71.2 million).
So, while the black-and-white numbers today might not indicate that the Giants are swimming in 2026 projected space ($17.4 million, 19th-most in the NFL per OTC), the salary cap is healthier than it has been throughout most of the past decade of losing, and the ability to create more flexibility through a variety of means is unhindered by past mistakes.
The Giants’ relatively blank slate from a salary-cap standpoint — their space jumps to $112 million in 2027 and $238 million in 2028, according to OverTheCap — and ability to navigate free agency or trades without financial limitation is one of the reasons the head coach vacancy is expected to be attractive to top candidates, as mentioned to The Post by multiple league sources.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
