{The Ultimate Bengals Offseason Extravaganza Thread}

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(03-26-2025, 11:31 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: This has been coveredby me and many others in detail. There is a majr difference between a player's average pay per year than the cap hit due to amjor 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.

I might be in the minority, but I wouldn't be opposed to contracts being forced to stick to AAV for cap hits and removing things like Void Years.
It would help keep things simpler and allow more parity across the league because teams like the Chiefs, Eagles, and Steelers couldn't manipulate the heck out of the cap like they do today.

I'm sure though doing that would be a lose-lose for both the teams and players themselves.