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Originally Posted by saphojunkie
If you extend Houston, you can convert his salary this year to bonus, reducing his cap hit to under $12M a year, radically increasing his guaranteed money, but keeping him affordable.
It helps all parties. Houston gets more guaranteed money, chiefs keep their best defender, and you can trade Ford, freeing him over $25M in cap space ($15.7M for Ford, and reducing $21M cap hit for Ford down to $11-$12M)
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That will probably mean that we have to keep Houston through the end of his contract. The more you restructure and push back the cap impact, the longer you are locked into a contract. Houston will probably want another year added to the end of the original contract to give him even more leverage.