Signing Bonus Proration. The total amount of any signing bonus, or amount treated as signing bonus, shall be prorated over the term of the Rookie Contract, with a maximum proration of four years, on a straight-line basis beginning in the first year of the player’s contract, such that each contract year (excluding year five for players selected in round one of the draft) shall have an equal prorated amount, and such equal prorated amount shall count in the calculation of Rookie Salary and against the Total Rookie Compensation Pool for that Draft class and the Club’s Total Rookie Allocation in each League Year of the contract. The amount prorated in the player’s first contract year shall count in the calculation of Year-One Rookie Salary and against the Year-One Rookie Compensation Pool for that Draft class and the Club’s Year-One Rookie Allocation.