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Interesting read since we have Dak's extension around the corner
Read more: https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/05/17/nfl-business-football-explaining-salary-cap
Separating Fact From Fiction Over How the NFL Salary Cap Works
Andrew Brandt puts on his professor hat to clear up some myths about cash vs. cap, stars taking less money to help the team and more.
Myth No. 2: Elite players should take less to “help the team win”
- ANDREW BRANDT
- 10 HOURS AGO
No.
Less cap? Sure. Less cash? No.
If top players, especially quarterbacks, want to facilitate the signing of other important players on the team—we can debate whether that is their role, but even if we allow for it—there is a way they can easily do that, and hundreds of players have. They can simply do a cap restructure of their contracts: converting their large salaries into signing bonuses, thereby pushing out cap charges into the future years through proration. These are cap restructures done by every team in the NFL. The player receives the exact same money he was scheduled to receive, sometimes even with better cash flow and an earlier payment schedule.
Dak is NOT Elite therefore the above subject does not pertain to him!!!!