Browns restructure Deshaun Watson’s contract, get huge cap space help

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(03-26-2023, 10:37 AM)Synric Wrote: I hope they keep restructuring his contract lol. Right now his void year is only a 8m dead cap but they can get it higher than that! Lol.


Cam Jordan is going into the last year of his contract with the Saints in 2023 as a 33 years old. Because they have restructured him so often they will have to resign him in 2024 at 34 years old to lower his dead cap hits in his void years... His dead cap hit in 2024 will be 23m lol. Saints have a few players that are aging and have a few high dollar void years.

Gotta pay that bill eventually with a 1 year cap shitshow, but until then you can keep kicking the can down the road for as long as the player is good. I'm sure the Browns are fully expecting to extend Watson in a couple years, which will let them spread out some of those big cap hits and restructure them right back down to kick the can down the road some more.

The Saints have been restructuring Cameron Jordan's deals since 2016. That's 8 years of being able to kick the can down and squeeze more players into your salary cap in an attempt to win now in exchange for 1 eventual punch-in-the-mouth year. Worth it, though the Saints probably should have just done their cap reset when Brees retired.