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OzRam
except it's not the way they seem to like doing business. I know your not saying that's what they'll do but just giving an example of how the cap could be unaffected with a new contract, but recent Ram contracts haven't used big signing bonuses.
They've had minimal signing bonus money and plenty of guaranteed roster bonuses for the first few years. That way the cover the all important player guaranteed money but not using signing bonuses stops the guarantee money being carried over all the years, especially the final few years when a player might be in decline. Also important is that it gives more flexibility to trade a player, as it doesn't cause an enormous cap hit for all the signing bonus!
I know
Here's what the Rams HAVE done though. Park a big guaranteed hit in the 2nd year of a contract extension (obviously 2019 in this case). If you do that the player gets the money anyway, but you don't put as much pressure on the present cap (obviously 2018 in this case.) So doing it that way, if they want, they can lower the prorated bonus money in year one and the player still has a big guaranteed payout the next year.
In other words there's lots of ways to do this without worrying about the 2018 cap.
All the same applies to Cooks too.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/12/2018 06:38AM by zn.
