The Facts:
Following up on a
previous item. ... The Cowboys created $10 million in 2014 cap space by converting $12.5 million of Romo’s $13.5 million base salary into a signing bonus. The move sets the stage for another restructuring in 2015.
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As PFT's Mike Florio explained, with Romo’s cap number already due to be $25.2 million, the restructuring adds another $2.5 million, pushing the cap number to $27.7 million. While the cap is expected to continue to go up in larger amounts than in the first two years of the current labor deal (
as it did this season), $27.7 million will be a lot to carry for one play. Even if the cap shoots to $140 million, Romo will count for nearly 20 percent of the entire cap. Florio went on to note that with a $17 million salary next year, the Cowboys can easily shrink the number again. If, for example, the Cowboys convert $15 million to a signing bonus and spread it over the five remaining years of the deal, the cap number will drop to $15.7 million. Yes, that means an ever-increasing cap number for Romo as we get into 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (as in $23.5 million that final year); it also means the Cowboys would be scrambling if Romo calls it quits before then (a development that would push all that bonus money into the following year). It's a situation worth watching.
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