Trent Williams has signed and is practicing today

Don't know the specifics but there are rules in place that prevent teams from doing that. Otherwise every team with strong cash flow would be doing it.The 30% rule. And the Rookie Cap.

NYC I understand exactly what you mean. I would not write a guy a 30million $ check whose only knock was possibly his work ethic.

And guys I understamd we had to pay the kid, but what NYC is saying is not front loading the contract to a kid or any other player to avoid another AH situation.

The 30% rule. And the Rookie Cap.

What he said.

The 30% rule. And the Rookie Cap.Article XXIV, section 8(b)) states that:
"No NFL Player Contract entered into in a Capped Year and extending into the Final League Year or beyond may provide for an annual increase in Salary, excluding any amount attributable to a signing bonus ... of more than 30% of the Salary provided for in the Final Capped Year, per year, either in the Final League Year or in any subsequent League Year covered by the Player Contract."

it appears the 30% rule applies in capped years.

can anyone confirm if the rookie cap applies in this uncapped year? and if so, how the bonus vs salary works exactly?

And guys I understamd we had to pay the kid, but what NYC is saying is not front loading the contract to a kid or any other player to avoid another AH situation.

Exactly, thanks for sticking up for me. LOL

you're buying a car, you want to put as much money down as possible so your monthly payments will lower.

we already "bought" williams, let's put as much money into this uncapped year as possible so his cap hit will be less in each of the next 5 years.

A person isn't a car. A car doesn't skip a workout, because it doesn't like to drive on a highway. Let's look at Revis for a second, he signed a new contract last year, and I presume got some nice upfront cash. Now he is looking at a year where he is playing for only (gasp) 1 million dollars. There is no need to put tons of money up front into a 22 - 23 year olds pocket. He got good money, and the next few years he will get good money, and have incentives not to do dumb off field stunts and/or holdouts, lest he lose that money.

But your main point seems to be, we should do this because if a cap comes back his contract will hurt us. I think that's a bad reason to write a large upfront check. First, the FO has no exact idea of what a new cap would look like, the owners and players could negotiate a grandfather clause that accounts for any large salaries this year. Second, they may not get a cap, in which case you paid out a lot for no reason. Third, and this best answers your concern, we fit a 100million dollar contract under the last cap, when we were one of the top 5 cap strapped teams, If we had gone salary crazy, like Vinnie might have, then I would be worried, but 1 or two big contracts won't destroy any teams budget.

Finally, and this may or may not hold water with you, and I don't really care who gets the interest cuz it aint me, BUT from a cash perspective, that's a lot of capital investment to lose (heck even at 1% interest 20Million makes nice pocket change)

Allen is a cap master, I've got zero concerns about him in that regard. He's got that covered.

A person isn't a car. A car doesn't skip a workout, because it doesn't like to drive on a highway. Let's look at Revis for a second, he signed a new contract last year, and I presume got some nice upfront cash. Now he is looking at a year where he is playing for only (gasp) 1 million dollars. There is no need to put tons of money up front into a 22 - 23 year olds pocket. He got good money, and the next few years he will get good money, and have incentives not to due dumb off field stunts and/or holdouts, lest he lose that money.

But your main point seems to be, we should do this because if a cap comes back his contract will hurt us. I think that's a bad reason to write a large upfront check. First, the FO has no exact idea of what a new cap would look like, the owners and players could negotiate a grandfather clause that accounts for any large salaries this year. Second, they may not get a cap, in which case you paid out a lot for no reason. Third, and this best answers your concern, we fit a 100million dollar contract under the last cap, when we were one of the top 5 cap strapped teams, If we had gone salary crazy, like Vinnie might have, then I would be worried, but 1 or two big contracts won't destroy any teams budget.thank you, sir. what you said makes sense.

my main point wasn't that his contract would hurt us. my main point was that getting a lot of the money in his contract into this uncapped year would make it easier on the cap over the final 5 years of his contract. (once again, assuming the cap comes back next year)