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Peppers hampering Panthers with cap (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Almost every move the Carolina Panthers make -- or can't make -- this offseason is based on one figure: $16.7 million. That's the staggering salary-cap number four-time Pro Bowl defensive end Julius Peppers carries under the franchise tag. The money counts on the cap even though Peppers hasn't signed the one-year tender and has said he wants to play elsewhere.