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Originally Posted by JPhillips
But the cap goes up every year so today's million is worth more than next year's million. In a capped league void years are manipulating the cap. These void years allow the money to be spread in a way that essentially means the team is over the cap for some of the years the player is active.
If four void years are fine why not ten or twenty or one hundred? GMs will keep pushing the limits until the NFL does something.
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The rule is five years on bonus money, which is why the contract was done in a sequence in that manner. It may be guaranteed, but as far as the cap in concerned, that guarantee can never be moved more than five years ahead. It may look that way right now, but that's just accounting.
Most importantly, he has to be on the team or released after the deadline the previous year in order for it to actually be part of the cap.
As far as how it's reported? Doesn't matter. He still has a salary and a bonus assigned to 2023, and that bonus cannot be extended more than five years if he has the money in his hands.
It's interesting to look at some of these contracts. Try making sense of the Mahomes deal, which extends through 2031. Not a cent he's received, though, goes against the cap past 2027.
In the end, all it is amounts to negotiating deals that get executed in the future, subject to all the cap rules of any other deal that gets done at that time.