Chiefs sign Bennie Logan

[TimBone]

How do deals with incentives work, regarding the cap?

[ct]

Originally Posted by TimBone

How do deals with incentives work, regarding the cap?

Incentives are either "likely to be earned" or "unlikely ...". The Unlikely don't count on the cap this year, but do next year if earned. the Likely incentives do count this year.

So with a "down year" last year, they can set incentive levels above what he accomplished last year and theoretically they wouldnt fall into the Likely category.

that's my laymans understanding, please correct if somebody has a better description.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ct

Incentives are either "likely to be earned" or "unlikely ...". The Unlikely don't count on the cap this year, but do next year if earned. the Likely incentives do count this year.

So with a "down year" last year, they can set incentive levels above what he accomplished last year and theoretically they wouldnt fall into the Likely category.

that's my laymans understanding, please correct if somebody has a better description.

The problem is that most of the 'likely to be earned' designations are are based on prior years, in fact I think all of them are.

He played a lot of games last year so if they Chiefs offered him 16 games worth of incentives, he played in 12, right? So 12 games worth of them would be considered LTBE and count in advance. I'd imagine they wouldn't have a hard time getting sack and/or 'accolade' incentives designated as 'unlikely' as he's never shown a propensity for pass rushing or pro bowls in the past.

If there's a shot at $8 million, I'd imagine most of that has to be based on unlikely to be earned incentives, perhaps not too different from the deal that Streater signed last year.