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Originally Posted by The Franchise

The #Saints re-signed WR Tre’Quan Smith to a 2-year, $6M deal. He has another $4.5M available in incentives.

Two void years were added for cap purposes.

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) March 28, 2022

I hadn't heard of void years in NFL contracts until recently. Were they just not a common thing beforehand, but seems we are seeing contracts with these void years more and more common.

Anyone have a link that explains the void years or someone can summarize it quickly for a idgit like me?