Give each team a certain number of exemptions per season - maybe 10? Could be 10 guys play 17 games or 5 guys play 18 games or anything in between.
Let players opt in if they want to be considered for more than 16 games in a season.
Have the NFL pay guys who play more than 16 games, not individual teams. Take some of that extra money the league would make and create a fund for this purpose. The rate would be 1/16 of the transition tag value for each position. Player contracts would still be for 16 games and the cap wouldn't be affected by these exemptions.
A team could conceivably play their QB, RB, LT, LDE, and stud CB every game if they all opted in and they all stayed healthy.
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