The New Orleans Saints have begun the process of becoming salary cap compliant by restructuring the contract of Jairus Byrd according to Evan Woodbery of Nola.com… Byrd converted his $6 million roster bonus into a signing bonus, creating $4.8 million in cap space and further pushing charges to the future. I am a bit surprised […]
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I actually wrote this up a few weeks ago when Tom Brady’s wife mentioned him playing with concussions and there was talk on the prospect of players hiding injuries because contracts are not guaranteed. I’m not sure why I never got around to publishing it, but it kind of fell by the wayside. With the […]
June 2nd has finally arrived and the accounting rules for the remainder of the season are now changed. From this point forward any player on a multi year contract who is released will only have his current years proration remain on the salary cap in 2017 with any future money being dumped into the 2018 […]
This new series will go through each division and look at how each NFL team tends to structure and negotiate their contracts. This is particularly relevant as we near free agency, and fans can begin to understand the general approach that their team will take to the marketplace come March. We start with the NFC […]