The New York Giants will enter the 2019 season with approximately $33 million in "dead cap" on their 53-man roster, according to OverTheCap.com. For those who are unfamiliar with dead cap, it is essentially a combination of guaranteed money the Giants spent up front to lower the cap hits in early contract years on multi-year lucrative deals.

For example, one of the biggest reasons the Giants caught so much negative attention for trading wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is that the decision resulted in $16 million in "dead cap" money. In other words, the Giants have allocated $16 million of their approximately $180 million in cap space to a player who is not even going to be on their roster in 2019.

The dead money doesn't stop with Beckham. The Giants are also paying $8 million in dead salary cap space to defensive end Olivier Vernon, $3.2 million in deap cap to defensive tackle Damon Harrison, $3 million in dead cap to offensive guard Patrick Omameh (who is currently out of the NFL and unsigned by any team), $2 million and change to cornerback Eli Apple, and a few other minors dead cap hits. In total, the Giants are paying nine players to not be on the roster in 2019.

The good news is that this all comes off the books in 2020. The Giants are projected to have an incredible amount of salary cap space -- the most since the 2016 offseason and possibly more -- during the 2020 offseason.

With veteran quarterback Eli Manning set to come off the books and the Giants ready to turn over the quarterback position to Daniel Jones on a rookie contract, the time to spend and build around their franchise signal caller begins in 2020. This is what the best NFL teams do. They take advantage of the small window where their quarterback is still on his rookie contract. Instead of allocating more than $25 million annually, and likely more after we see Dak Prescott's upcoming contract, teams with a starting quarterback on his rookie deal will never allocate more than $10 million to the No. 1 spot on the depth chart.

The Giants are currently projected to have approximately $61 million in 2020 salary cap space. As it stands now, the Giants will have the eighth-most cap space in the NFL heading into the 2020 offseason. That number is also likely to rise just as it has over the past several years when the NFL raises its annual salary cap. Of course, that number is relative to all teams.

However, the Giants can create more salary cap space for their 2020 offseason by releasing any of the following veteran players whose contracts have very little guaranteed money (against the cap) remaining. For a full salary cap breakdown of the 2020 season and beyond, you can check out our analysis from June.

Today, we are going in a different direction.

Earlier this offseason, we broke down the Giants' 10 highest-paid players (by salary cap hit) for the 2019 season. In the following piece, we will break down the Giants' 10 biggest salary cap bargains.