Lets say a guy is signed for 4 more seasons. He has a base salary of 5 mil and he is making a 3 mil bonus each season so his contract would look like this.

year 1 - 5,000,000 - 3,000,000
year 2 - 5,250,000 - 3,000,000
year 3 - 5,512,500 - 3,000,000
year 4 - 5,788,125 - 3,000,000

If you were to cut him it would save you 5,000,000 off of the cap on the current season and you would take a dead cap hit for 3,000,000 for the current season. Now when you go to cut him it tells you that dead cap hit would be 9 million next season. Where this is misleading is that if you are not savvy with how contracts work you may not realize that means you are adding salary to your cap the next season.

What I purpose is that we add an additional column to the team roster page for the save if release to show how that effects that cap the next season. Now I would think this would be a rather simple add that would really help a lot of folks manage their cap better.

In my example cutting this guy on the current season means this.
Save if release next season = +5,250,000 in base salary - 9,000,000 in dead cap hit = Save if release next season -3,750,000

I'm torn on this. I understand the value in having such a column, but on the other hand, it's not going to get much use.

There are very few times that you are going to sign a player to so much bonus money that cutting him would mean you would be taking an additional cap hit in the year after you cut him. If you're signing players to such contracts a lot, then you have bigger issues with cap management then being able to recognize you're going to have to deal with dead cap.

I realize there will be times where you sign a player for a higher percentage of bonus money than salary. I do this all the time with players that I have drafted and have expiring contracts, but when I do this, I'm planning on keeping the player for at least four more seasons. I also do so so I can keep the total cap hit to reasonable amounts.

Like this TE whose total cap hit is just over a million: http://mfn19.myfootballnow.com/player/3204

Or this 90+ CB whose cap hit barely exceeds 5 million at the most expensive point of his contract: http://mfn19.myfootballnow.com/player/3702

If I were to cut either of those players, I would take a cap hit on the year after the cut, but I don't plan on cutting or trading them. I guess what this all boils down to is that people just need better cap management skills. :)