Salary Cap Status 2025

I'm seeing Kinlaw's deal reported as 3Y/45M with 30M guaranteed. Ugh ... your estimate seemed much more reasonable. I guess that the team sees something that I don't in his resume.

Both things can be true, my estimate of $7.5M was right on the money, it turned out.

His contract is for three years and $45M as reported. It included $16.5M in signing bonus, $1.3M in guaranteed salary in 2025, and $12.2M in guaranteed salary next year in 2026. So that's where the $30M guaranteed comes from, those three things add up to $30M.

The last year of the deal is not guaranteed, his salary would be $12.9M that season if he remains with us. He's got other roster bonuses and workout bonuses, but that's the gist of the deal.

His cap hits will be:

2025: $7.5M ($5.5M for the prorated signing bonus, $1.3M for the guaranteed salary, and $700K in other little bonuses)

2026: $18.4M ($5.5M for the prorated signing bonus, $12.2M for the guaranteed salary, and $700K in other little bonuses)

2027: $19.1M ($5.5M for the prorated signing bonus, $12.9M for non-guaranteed salary, and $700K for other little bonuses)

So you can see a contract reported at an average annual value of $15M per, but engineer the deal such that the cap hit is lower in the first year and higher in the out years, as they've done here.

I feel like it's 15 years ago and I'm on here with CrazyCanuck explaining salary cap 101.

The Washington Commanders have been penalized $25M in cap space for violations of select articles of the collective bargaining agreement. The instances involved the contracts of defensive ends Chase Young and Montez Sweat who were traded shortly after the ownership change to Josh Harris. The contracts of Young and Sweat included trade-restriction clauses agreed to by former owner Dan Snyder that resulted in the acceleration of bonuses that put the team over the 2023 salary cap in November and thereafter.

Ian Rapoport

The Washington Commanders have been penalized $25M in cap space for violations of select articles of the collective bargaining agreement. The instances involved the contracts of defensive ends Chase Young and Montez Sweat who were traded shortly after the ownership change to Josh Harris. The contracts of Young and Sweat included trade-restriction clauses agreed to by former owner Dan Snyder that resulted in the acceleration of bonuses that put the team over the 2023 salary cap in November and thereafter.

Ian Rapoport

WTF? Well that is no good. That's a pretty big fuck-up.

Hoping this is an April Fool's joke.

Unbelievable

That’s an AFD post.

That’s an AFD post.

I think April 1st is my least favorite day of the year.