03-13-2023, 03:02 PM
(03-13-2023, 11:47 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Kind of curious on how the Watson restructure works because the contract was all guaranteed. I thought a restructure converted money to bonus allowing the cap hit to be pushed to later years.
Depends. A team has the option, without player consent, to convert salary to bonus.
So, if Watson was going to make $55 million this year, the Browns can convert that to a bonus, which would lower his cap hit.
I know these numbers are off, but I'll use even numbers. It works like this:
2023 Salary - 60
2024 Salary - 60
2025 salary - 60
2026 Salary - 60
If they convert 2023, then his cap hit becomes 15 million and then the other years his cap hit would be 60 + 15 = 75 million since they spread out the 60 million over 4 years.
A player will NEVER complain about this because they get all that new bonus money immediately.
