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PeoriaRa
Even thought the new deal doesn't start til 2019? Because he signed the new deal and thats what that means?
I don't know how the signing bonus is distributed. There are all sorts of fancy ways to handle that. I don't know when he gets it (you can delay giving a player a signing bonus) and I don't know how it is factored into the cap.
So that's just a separate question. We will need to see how they structured it to get that part.
But it is true that you can't say it's 7 years, 143 M. It's one (now restructured) rookie contract that ends after 2018. Then a new, 2nd contract that starts in 2019 and averages 22.5 M.
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