(02-28-2018, 08:24 PM)The_Franchise_QB Wrote:

(02-28-2018, 08:02 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: You're confusing cap hit with what he will actually earn this season which is $20 million which will be $20 of the $26.5 guaranteed.  He will only be guaranteed $6.5 million going into next season.  Whether it will be us paying it or another team will be determined this coming season.  This information is on spotrac like you mentioned.

Is the signing bonus not pro-rated?

It is, but there's nothing the team can do about it except recognize all remaining $10 million in 2019 or $5 million of it in 2019 and the last $5 million in 2020.  If they feel it's time to move on, they're not going to keep him and pay him his $16 million base salary in 2019 just to move that $5 million signing bonus out to the last year of the deal.  If Bortles is cut or traded, that dead cap number you see for 2019 would drop by the $6.5 million thanks to the offset in his contract and be reduced to $10 million to reflect just the remaining signing bonus if realized all that year.  $10 million sounds like a big hit but it really isn't when it's either $10 million in 2019 or $5 and $5 as I mentioned above.  This deal isn't designed to stop them from moving on from Blake after this season if they want which for a moment I thought it was.

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