According to overthecap.com [
overthecap.com] Brockers' deal with the Rams is 3 years, $24M with another $7.5 million in incentives available.
However ... most of those incentives are not likely to be earned (NLTBE). [
frontofficenfl.com]
The NFL looks at incentives and if they are considered likely to be earned (LTBE) they count against the cap immediately. For example, if Brockers has an incentive that he would get $1M if he showed up to camp under 380 pounds the NFL would consider that LTBE and immediately count it against the cap. If Brockers showed up at 385 then the Rams wouldn't pay that incentive and they would roll over that $1M cap savings to the next season.
OTOH if Brockers had an incentive that paid him $1M if he won DPOY the NFL would consider that NLTBE and there would be no up-front cap hit. But, if Brockers did win DPOY he would get that $1M and the cap hit would be applied the following season.
Brockers' cap hits over the life of his contract only include a half million dollars in incentives so far, all of that in the first year of his deal. And there is no cap hit for incentives this year so it looks like $7M of those incentives are NLTBE.
Bottom line: the Rams got Brockers for 3 years, $24.5M (unless, of course, he hits some NLTBE incentive(s) this year).
AlbaNY_Ram
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/2021 03:21AM by AlbaNY_Ram.
