A look at how the Houston Texans allocated cap space during the 2014 season.
Texans' adjusted cap value: $133,467,230
Cap value: $110,222,071
Dead money/other: $21,865,072
Cap space: $1,380,087
Safeties: $3,471,480 vs. cap, 7.66 percent of defensive cap, 3.15 percent of overall cap
Danieal Manning: $855,000 vs cap, 1.89 percent of defensive cap, .78 percent of overall cap
D.J. Swearinger: $793,477, 1.75 percent of defensive cap, .72 percent of overall cap
Kendrick Lewis: $635,000 vs cap, 1.4 percent of defensive cap, .58 percent of overall cap
Eddie Pleasant: $495,000 vs cap, 1.09 percent of defensive cap, .45 percent of overall cap
Josh Aubrey: $378,529 vs cap, .84 percent of defensive cap, .34 percent of overall cap
Lonnie Ballentine: $314,474 vs cap, .69 percent of defensive cap, .29 percent of overall cap
Under his previous contract, Manning's cap number was $6 million. The Texans are still hit with $1.5 million of dead money by cutting him, but saved $4.5 million. All total you can trace back $2,355,000 of the Texans' 2014 salary cap to Manning. This was another position where the Texans were thrifty, as they were in a lot of their defensive spending. Houston came in at more than 50 percent below the league average in cap space designated to safeties. There are two draft picks in Swearinger and Ballentine. Lewis, who came in on a one-year deal, is set to become a free agent in March.
