Salary cap update with Jaylon signing

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

7 million cap hit for next season.

Vinnie2u said:

Jameill Showers
Safety

Career Earnings: $653,876
Career APY: $163,469
Potential Earnings: $1,134,476
Total Guarantees: $0
Largest Cash Payment: $495,000 (2019)
Largest Cap Hit: $495,000 (2019)

Let this sink in.....

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Dude is living his best life

J12B said:

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys/

7 million cap hit for next season.

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Unlikely.

Jaylon's 2020 salary is fully guaranteed. We'll likely convert most of his 5+ mill salary to bonus and spread a million in cap hit over five years.

That means his 2020 cap hit is going to be more like 3.5 mill.

AbeBeta said:

Unlikely.

Jaylon's 2020 salary is fully guaranteed. We'll likely convert most of his 5+ mill salary to bonus and spread a million in cap hit over five years.

That means his 2020 cap hit is going to be more like 3.5 mill.

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Over the last two-three seasons the front office has done less and less restructures. Which, has helped them manage the cap more responsibly.

There is no need to push cap hits onto future years when the space is currently available.

J12B said:

Over the last two-three seasons the front office has done less and less restructures. Which, has helped them manage the cap more responsibly.

There is no need to push cap hits onto future years when the space is currently available.

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That's not at all correct.

Over the last 2 or 3 seasons, the front office has had fewer big contracts with guaranteed salaries because we got lucky on younger guys and have given out relatively few large FA contracts. Fred and Martin are the exceptions with neither of their deals hitting "new" money until this year. You can be sure that if we need more cap space that Martin is getting reworked just like Fred did in 17 and 18. Simply put, we haven't had that many big, guaranteed salaries to restructure.

It is not at all irresponsible to restructure guaranteed deals. Not in the least. When you can spread cap hits into later years, the rising cap makes this equivalent to paying negative interest on a loan. You are confusing restructuring NON-guaranteed years with restructuring guaranteed years.

If you want to see responsible, look no further than T Smith's deal. We did multiple restructures on his base salaries but stopped when the salaries became non-guaranteed. Although his deal nominally runs through 2023, we actually could cut him before 2020 and save a net of about 7 mill of cap space.