Will Burrow restructure come next?

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(03-17-2025, 01:40 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Again, that's still more money RIGHT NOW.

Humphrey got $16.74m of his 2025 base salary turned into a signing bonus, and signing bonuses are paid out now.

He was set to make $18m in base salary in 2025. That means he was set to get a $1,000,000 check every week of the 2025 season, roughly Sept 2025-Jan 2026 for Week 1-18. 

NOW he gets a big lump of $16.74m in March 2025 and ~$69,722 each week for Week 1-18 of the 2025 season spanning Sept-Jan. It is not increasing the total they'd have to spend over the 2025 season, but it's more cash needing to be given RIGHT NOW in a lump sum rather than starting 6 months from now over an 18 week span while money from games are coming in.

You are correct, Burrow would paid early if the base is converted, but the cash spend in 2025 would not change and we can pick up 20 million in cap savings in 2025 according to this explanation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bengals/comments/1i0gtmm/the_burrow_contract_and_what_a_restructure_would/

They could do the same thing in 2026 and what KC seems to do every year toget cap relief.

They can also add as many as 5 voidable years to the Chase and Higgins contracts and save tons of cap space the next few years. Burrow's contract is set up to make it easy to spread out over time. They can do a lot more with Chase and Higgins. It does have risks, but they are both very young.