Quote:Edit:  This his his 2015 salary...

 

Base = 2,442,500

 

Signing Bonus = 295,000

Option Bonus  =1,247,500

 

Work-out Bons =150,000

 

Cap Hit = 3,985,000

 

Dead Money = 1,542,500

Tyson doesn't get any bonuses in 2015.

 

The signing and option bonuses were paid in full to him years ago and you can't recoup that charge against your salary cap even if you release him.

 

The numbers you are showing, the 295,000 and the 1,247,500 respectively, are the final amortized portions of the signing and option bonuses which will be  charged to the books in 2015 . When you add those two figures together, you get the dead money hit for 2015 of 1,542,500.

 

Next add the dead money hit to his base salary of 2,442,500 and you will get the Cap Hit of 3,985,000.

 

He quit getting the work-out bonus n 2014. As you can tell, the 2015 salary cap number doesn't account for that extra 150,000.

 

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/jacksonville-...on-alualu/

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