Ballpark Range To Keep Burrow Long Term This Summer

[George Cantstandya]

(06-15-2023, 02:27 PM)Joelist Wrote: Nah...you sign him to a 7 year contract at vet minimum fully guaranteed......

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At the same time you hire him as the Bengals official goodwill ambassador at an annual salary of 55 million per year for a term of 7 years / no cut. To make sure there is no conflict this job only is active between the week after the Super Bowl to the first week of NFL OTAs.

The NFL would never allow it.  Some team would have tried it already.   A team with a ton of money could just have a full office of goodwill ambassadors made up of all pros getting paid veteran minimum.  Plus I believe the owners want the salary cap to keep contracts in check to a certain degree and increase profits. So I doubt they would be pleased with some team trying to get around it in such a way.

Also from the CBA:

https://overthecap.com/collective-bargaining-agreement/article/13

Quote:A player’s Salary shall also include any and all consideration received by the player or his Player Affiliate from a Club or Club Affiliate, even if such consideration is ostensibly paid to the player for services other than football playing services, if the NFL can demonstrate before the Impartial Arbitrator that the consideration paid to the player or Player Affiliate for such nonfootball services does not represent a reasonable approximation of the fair market value of such services as performed by such player. The Impartial Arbitrator’s determination may take into account, among other things: (1) any actual dollar amounts the player or Player Affiliate received for similar nonfootball playing services from an independent third party; and (2) the percentage of total compensation for nonfootball services received from third parties versus the Team or Team Affiliate.

So as I understand it I'm pretty sure if the Bengals start paying Burrow 55 million a year to be a goodwill ambassador that arbitrator is going to call foul on that and say that is part of his football salary.   Then the Bengals probably get fined and lose draft picks for violating the cap rules.  Not that it would happen anyway because the NFL has to approve contracts and if they see the Bengals submit a contract for Burrow paying veteran minimum all sorts of red flags are going to go up.