Falcons are $7.2 million under salary cap

Falcons tight end Levine Toilolo picks up a first down against the Vikings in a NFL football game on Sunday, December 3, 2017, in Atlanta.  Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com

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Falcons tight end Levine Toilolo picks up a first down against the Vikings in a NFL football game on Sunday, December 3, 2017, in Atlanta. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com

After the post-June 1 adjustments, the Falcons are $7,238,018 million under their adjusted salary cap of $176,018,958 million, according to NFLPA documents.

The release of tight end Levine Toilolo with a post-June 1 designation saved the team $3.5 million. The 6-foot-8 Toilolo was selected in the fourth round (133 overall) of the 2013 NFL draft out of Stanford and the hope was that he would develop into a red zone threat. He turned out to be a blocking tight end.

Toilolo signed a one-year contract with the Lions in free agency.