& here is a more cap friendly team I put together. Originally I was about $25m under. I added a few more luxury pieces, but didn't really fully optimize, & I'm sure it's quite possible there are still notable omissions:
Pos | Player | 2017 Cap Hit |
QB | Aaron Rodgers | $20,300,000 |
QB | Teddy Bridgewater | $2,179,387 |
RB | David Johnson | $799,843 |
RB | Dalvin Cook | $1,065,680 |
RB | Spencer Ware | $1,745,833 |
RB | Chris Carson | $391,811 |
FB | John Kuhn | $506,471 |
WR | Odell Beckham | $3,311,063 |
WR | Allen Robinson | $1,117,095 |
WR | Julian Edelman | $7,416,666 |
WR | Cameron Meredith | $617,000 |
WR | Quincy Enunwa | $615,000 |
TE | Greg Olsen | $10,350,000 |
TE | Jake Butt | $423,234 |
TE | Crockett Gillmore | $816,504 |
OT | Joe Thomas | $11,500,000 |
OT | Jason Peters | $6,916,666 |
OT | George Fant | $369,666 |
OT | Jason Spriggs | $1,137,339 |
G | Marshal Yanda | $9,125,220 |
G | Forrest Lamp | $1,095,167 |
G | Jack Mewhort | $1,137,119 |
G | Joshua Garnett | $2,114,616 |
C | JC Tretter | $6,500,000 |
C | Ted Larsen | $1,416,666 |
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DE | JJ Watt | $14,500,000 |
DE | Noah Spence | $1,371,886 |
DE | Arik Armstead | $2,684,354 |
DE | Jonathan Allen | $2,032,726 |
DT | Sharrif Floyd | $6,757,000 |
DT | Nick Fairley | $3,000,000 |
DT | Vincent Valentine | $560,179 |
DT | Malik McDowell | $1,147,625 |
OLB | Dont'a Hightower | $5,335,931 |
OLB | Whitney Mercilus | $6,018,750 |
OLB | Shane Ray | $2,486,971 |
OLB | Markus Golden | $1,068,636 |
OLB | Trent Murphy | $1,423,163 |
MLB | Jerrell Freeman | $4,250,000 |
MLB | Denzel Perryman | $1,302,673 |
MLB | Jordan Hicks | $796,183 |
CB | Jason Verrett | $2,510,137 |
CB | Tavon Young | $691,282 |
CB | Delvin Breaux | $619,000 |
CB | Sidney Jones | $1,116,380 |
CB | Quinten Rollins | $1,020,699 |
SS | Clayton Geathers | $748,482 |
SS | Obi Melifonwu | $702,887 |
FS | Eric Berry | $5,000,000 |
FS | Malik Hooker | $2,222,063 |
FS/CB | Deshawn Shead | $1,200,000 |
K | Dustin Hopkins | $690,000 |
P | Kasey Redfern | $465,000 |
| Total | $164,690,053 |
| Salary Cap | $167,000,000 |