{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

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(03-26-2025, 10:04 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: And some of that goes to draft picks. How could a team with $28 million trade for Trey and give him $35 million a year?

Their $28 million is more like $20 million.

This has been coveredby me and many others in detail. There is a major difference between a player's average pay per year than the cap hit due to major manipulation methods. A team could give him a 30 million dollar bonus in year 1 and a base salary of 1 million or vetminimum. He gets 31 million year 1, but only a cap hit of 1 million if they decide to defer the entire bonus to later years.

They can also use void years to lower the cap hit. I think you continue to think cap is cash, it is not.