December 30, 2019 02:03PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 6,479
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I don't think this is true: "If the player left the team then altering the deal by turning a roster bonus into a pro-rated signing bonus (if the player agreed to it) would HURT the team because then even more pro-rated bonus money would be immediately due against the cap. In fact it would be cap suicide."
Right now Goff's $21M roster bonus counts against the 2020 cap.
If that was converted to a signing bonus it would count $4.2M against the the 2020 cap and $4.2M against each of the other 4 years as well.
If the deal was restructured that way and Goff was cut or traded before the season (say on draft day) then all of that signing bonus money would, as you say, be immediately due against the 2020 cap. But it's still $21M, same as if they let the roster bonus in place. Not good, of course, but no worse having been changed to a signing bonus.
AlbaNY_Ram
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