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Originally Posted by Scalper
I'm assuming no competent agent would allow a restructure that lowers salary, in which case it is simply more signing bonus and perhaps added years, for most players, given that only guaranteed money really matters, taking future pay in the present is a good deal, especially if no added years. Cowboys just mortgaging future.
Teams add voidable years all the time, it lowers the annual average of the signing bonus cap hit and thus provides cap relief. In English it usually just means dead money in the future, like the recent Rothlis-raper deal.
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$66 mil signing bonus (NFL record), and $75 mil in the first year (NFL record). Great job DP.