The Green Bay Packers will immediately gain almost $20 million in cap space when the trade of Davante Adams to the Las Vegas Raiders is officially completed.
A team pushed up against the cap will suddenly be free to sign in-house free agents or pursue other available free agents.
The Packers went into Thursday night at around $1 million in cap space, thanks to over $75 million worth of cap adjustments completed over the last month to get under the cap by the start of the new league year. Trading Adams will create around $19.4 million in new cap space, which will give the Packers all the space needed to get aggressive on the open market if desired.
Overall, the Packers will have roughly $20.4 million of cap space after dealing Adams.
Adams was on the books at a $20.1 million cap number after being given the franchise tag earlier this month. The Packers will remove the entire sum by trading him to the Raiders, but his cap number will be replaced by a minimum contract ($705,000) because…