02-01-2023, 03:46 PM
(02-01-2023, 03:23 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Joe Burrow could probably get money to be the highest-paid QB in the league based on AAV.
The Bengals don't have the pure cash to give him a lot of guaranteed money, so they'll have to (try to) offset that by front-loading or balancing his cap hit so he isn't in a potential situation toward the end of his contract where he could get let go and miss out on the rest of his contract.
To the OP, the nice thing about extensions is you can be flexible with how everything impacts the current contract.
You can give some of the money into the remaining year(s) of the current contract so that it lessens the overall cap hit down the road. However, that increases the cap hit in the short-term.
A better way for the team would be setting roster bonuses in the future that are not required to be escrowed, when the time comes for the roster bonus it can be converted to a signing bonus, making it guaranteed and prorated. This is the Mahomes structure.
