Deshaun Watson to Browns

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Because why not?

If they don't spend it, they bank the rollover and it applies to next season's cap and the money they converted to signing bonus that pushed into next season gets covered by the rollover.

Teams should be willing to convert as much salary into signing bonus as possible for guys they're married to. And the player should be happy to do so as well.

Then the issue becomes simply being savvy with the freed space. You can't burn it all up (Because then you don't have the rollover for the following season and that's how the Saints happen).

But there's literally zero reason NOT to do this for either party to the transaction here.

Signing bonus is taxed differently vs regular pay.