You inspired me to dig deeper. How does this look?
4-year, $48M deal, with a $10M signing bonus: his cap hit in 2021 would be $3M. (I think this would work for Floyd since he still gets $12M the first year, and $10M of that is up front, when he agrees to the deal. Probably have to at least guarantee the first 2 years salary so along with the bonus that's $37M guaranteed. Seems doable to me.)
2021: $3M cap hit ($1M salary, $2M prorated signing bonus)
2022: $24M cap hit ($22M salary, $2M prorated signing bonus)
2023: $9M cap hit ($7M salary, $2M prorated signing bonus)
2024: $10M cap hit ($8M salary, $2M prorated signing bonus)
2025: $2M cap hit ($0 salary, $2M prorated signing bonus)
Then, prior to the 2022 season the Rams could restructure the deal by converting $20M of his salary to a signing bonus and adding another void year. The resulting deal would look like this:
2021: $3M cap hit ($1M salary, $2M prorated signing bonus)
2022: $8M cap hit ($2M salary, $6M prorated signing bonus)
2023: $13M cap hit ($7M salary, $6M prorated signing bonus)
2024: $14M cap hit ($8M salary, $6M prorated signing bonus)
2025: $6M cap hit ($0 salary, $6M prorated signing bonus)
2026: $4M cap hit ($0 salary, $4M prorated signing bonus)
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