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It is players on Injured Reserve (and the PUP list).
Per OTC and Spotrac, Witherspoon and Keir Thomas are on IR and their combined cap hit is $1,795,000.
So the $58M for the Bengals (#1 on the list) is mostly Joe Burrow's $46M; and
the Niners' $56M (2nd on the list) is mostly Bosa, Warner and Aiyuk (PUP) ... they total almost $47M.
It's really not the best way to measure ... "The amount of money every NFL team has spent on injured players so far this season."
It's the easiest and fastest way to measure it ... and the laziest.
For example, the Vikings have been hit really hard by injuries but they are low on the above list because only one of their key injured players went on IR.
I talk to other passengers when we fly. I like to ask "how far can this plane fly on one engine? Old lady says 'All the way to the crash site'.
Always a quiet ride after that.