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Originally Posted by JohnnyV13
Yeah. The financial holdup is LJs signing bonus. Since he signed a 7 year deal, and has only fulfilled 2, the bulk of the signing bonus would accelerate into next year, as a current year cap hit. The Chiefs would lose about 14 million or so in cap room (or 7 if you spread the hit over 2 years).
Of course, the Chiefs DO have that cap room, unless the new GM decides to go on a shopping spree. As for LJ's tradability, the new team would assume LJ's base pay. From what I understand, LJ's base pay is pretty high and the new team might not be willing to accept that salary for a guy that could receive a years suspension for his next nightclub run-in. A team trading for LJ might demand to renegotiate the contract with LJ, before doing a deal.
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I could be misinformed, but as I uderstand it, if LJ remains with the Chiefs his base salary and prorated bonus would count 8.2 mil against the cap, while his accelerated bonus would count 8.8 mil against the cap.
If those numbers are correct then cutting or trading him is definitely not out of the question.