Baltimore Ravens restructure two more contracts

After restructuring the contract of star linebacker Roquan Smith on Monday, the Baltimore Ravens aren’t done making moves to free up salary cap space.

According to ESPN’s Field Yates, the Ravens have also restructured the contracts of defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike (formerly Justin Madubuike) and kicker Justin Tucker. Together, they have reportedly freed up $9.3 million in cap space for the season and are now 100 percent cap compliant.

Last week, the Ravens were about $3.8 million over the salary cap with all of their contracts on the books, including injury reserve, practice squad, etc. Now, they are under the salary cap and have a few million left over, all according to plan.

“At some point, we’re going to have to make some moves in the next few days and weeks, and we’ve got all that planned for,” general manager Eric DeCosta told reporters on Thursday. “There’s a lot of things we can do. We’re going to stick to the cap and we’re going to at least have some money to spend if there’s a player available that we think is going to help us be the best team we can be.”

Over The Cap says the Ravens were about $700,000 over the cap before news of the Madubuike and Tucker restructures broke. With Smith’s restructure saving $4.875 million on the cap, that means the Madubuike and Tucker restructures saved about $4.425 million. Add it all up, and the Ravens should be about $3.725 million under the cap, emphasis on “should.”

That gives DeCosta and company the ability to make some moves, but not many. So while it’s no longer absolutely necessary, there may be more cap-saving moves in the pipeline.

Regardless of what management has planned, the Ravens have their full attention focused on Thursday’s season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs.

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