Eagles lead NFL in a category that can help them win another Super Bowl but also hurt them down the road
The Philadelphia Eagles are leading the NFL by a large margin in salary cap dollar void years. In case you are not familiar with void years, they are contract years on which the player will never play. They work as placeholders for prorated signing bonus money, which can be assigned when the void years are […]
The Philadelphia Eagles are leading the NFL by a large margin in salary cap dollar void years.
In case you are not familiar with void years, they are contract years on which the player will never play. They work as placeholders for prorated signing bonus money, which can be assigned when the void years are created or created through a later contract restructure.
To dumb it down even further, void years allow teams to manipulate the salary cap and sign premier players to big deals. It's almost like the Eagles took a credit card and kept swiping it on the best talent and now they have to pay it off.
Sure, it helped them win the Super Bowl and could lead them to another one as soon as next season, but eventually, they'll have to dig themselves out of that debt.
The Birds are currently looking at $29,089,224 in dead cap space and have $390.4 million of void years. The next team on the list are the San Francisco 49ers, who are sitting with $204.4 million in void years. That is a huge drop-off.
There is no reason to panic, however, because if anyone can fix that number, it's the Eagles' front office and general manager Howie Roseman.
One can expect the Eagles to do several contract restructures this offseason, adding additional years with minimal base salaries to evenly push the cap charge further out.
