Most NFL teams are willing to do whatever it takes to win games. To provide for a competitive advantage so that the biggest checkbooks don’t end up winning the league annually, the NFL has a salary cap in place.
There are limitations to the salary cap beyond just having a certain dollar figure to spend on player salaries. Teams also have to watch out for the dead money hits — money still owed to a player after said player has been traded or released, to put simply.
According to Field Yates from ESPN, the Atlanta Falcons have taken on the biggest dead cap hit in NFL history by trading Matt Ryan to the Indianapolis Colts. Here is a look at the top-7 such hits in league history.
