Jeff Saturday confirms Matt Ryan will remain Colts’ starting quarterback

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Originally Posted by JAFF

Again, they will move money around, its monopoly money. Its not a hard cap.

While that's somewhat true and there are ways to get around it, it's still better for the Colts to not eat an additional $17M in cap space.

Also, we all know that Ballard doesn't play that game. He keeps the Colts under the cap (sometimes well under the cap) and doesn't push cap hits out to future years.