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Originally Posted by kccrow
Think of an option bonus as a signing bonus the team can trigger by keeping the player in that year.
So, lets say you have a player with a 6 year deal and you have a signing bonus of 20m. That 20m gets spread over the first 5 years of the deal at 4m per. In year 2 you give him a 10m option bonus. That gets spread over 5 years starting with the year of the bonus. So now you add 2m each over the 5 years. You end up with bonus money of 4, 6, 6, 6, 6, 2 for cap purposes. It's just a way of rolling bonus money forward and helps spread out cash outlay for the owners. He has options in each of the years, from what I understand, and 4 void years to help account for the final trigger year. So his would look more like 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 10, [8, 6, 4, 2] if you had 10m option in each of the 6 years (i put the void years in brackets).
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Ah - that makes sense. That's why those 'void' years are on there - the option bonus doesn't act as a year 1 salary but rather a signing bonus and thus is pro-rated accordingly. It's why I couldn't find a dollar for dollar match anywhere - those later years are accumulated pro-rated bonus.
So...they'd still all accelerate like a bat out of hell if he left the roster then, right?
Because man alive, that serves to give him a SHITLOAD of leverage come 2027, does it not? In that regard, the Mahomes deal is WAY better than Hurts. If Hurts is even nominally productive by then and can elect to go to FA and accelerate all those remaining years of pro-rated bonus onto the Eagles cap, he has them over a barrel.