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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
What dead money? There's no dead money if we keep Houston. Ford is not currently under contract.
Any deal for a restructure with Houston is cool, but would be a negotiation and maybe he will, maybe he won't.
I'm saying that even if he won't, he's still the better deal than Ford. due to the cap hit of letting Houston go, which would be $7 million.
That more than makes up the difference in salary.
Plus the high pick you'll get from Ford.
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The point about dead money is that we're paying $7M for Houston whether we cut him or keep him. So what I want to know is, if we restructured, how much more would we have to pay? In my restructure scenario, it's maybe $10M for 2019 (which means we'd pay only pay $2-3M beyond our cap obligations to keep him).
The other thing about my contract proposal is it allows Houston to earn his 2019 "guarantees" (which aren't really guaranteed), but 2020 and beyond can be a contract reflective of his value in his 30's. So that contract for Houston wouldn't be much different than if the Chiefs kept him for one year, then cut him.