How Giants Can Optimize Nate Solder Cap Savings If They Terminate His Contract The Giants and Nate Solder are presumably planning to move on from one another. But here's a way the Giants can optimize their savings if that happens without having to wait until June 2. Author: Feb 16, 2021 With projections of the 2021 NFL salary cap set to drop this year--the range has been anywhere from $175 to $180 million--the last thing a team wants to do is rack up the dead money. Dead money, defined as the leftover part of a contract (usually the remaining prorated signing bonus and any remaining guaranteed money) that remains on a team’s books once it terminates a player’s contract.