What the Titans save in salary cap from Lloyd Cushenberry and Xavier Woods release

INDIANAPOLIS - The Tennessee Titans announced that they were releasing center Lloyd Cushenberry III and safety Xavier Woods on Wednesday. Both moves save general manager Mike Borgonzi and his staff valuable cap space as the team adds to it's league-high total this offseason.

According to spotrac.com, getting Cushenberry III and Woods off the books before June 1st nets $3.415 and $3.82 million in cap space respectively.

Borgonzi, in Year 2, is tasked with completing all the roster gymnastics necessary to kick-start Tennessee's level of competitiveness. The team looks to take a big step around quarterback Cam Ward after consecutive 3-14 finishes the last two seasons. Cushenberry underwhelmed mightily in Year 2 of a four-year contract with the Titans offensive line struggling mightly for 2/3rds of the season. Woods, a solid third option for the team at safety, had meaningful savings to be had after the bulk of his guaranteed salary had been paid.

Guard Peter Skoronski is extension-elligible and Borgonzi would be wise to try and sign All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons to one as well.

"Yeah, with Peter (Skoronski), he's one of our better players and we like him here long-term," Borgonzi told media on Wednesday at the NFL Combine. "And the fifth-year option is always a tool, a mechanism he can use. But we're going to work to try to get something done here with Peter."

While the Titans do have cap space in spades, that money is better allocated toward drafted-and-developed talent than it is the mercenary-style free agents the team added in the last two offseasons to band-aid their roster problems.