Rapaport: Kelce undecided about future, may retire after Super Bowl

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Originally Posted by seamonster

From what I can see it's a dangerous game where a GM spreads a players cap hit across later years in the contract called "void years". Once those void years hit the player can literally give up on the team and sign somewhere else. The GM and team at that point are ****ed and have to eat the dead cap money and are hamstrung. Russian roulette. Eagles have gotten lucky as all hell with this but I can guarantee you that with their dbag coach and their emotionally coddled stars that at some point this house of cards can fall and they'll be paying AJ Brown to catch balls for the Cowboys or somebody. I can see why a team like the Chiefs would avoid this.

Thanks, I can see the dangers of this yet the Eagles have been doing this for years and have yet to suffer. I guess the part that I don't understand is how you can write a contract for 5 years and have wording that says that after 2 years, it's not valid. Given that the cap goes up every year, how much of a risk is it really? Based on this strategy, you can simply keep pushing the cap hit into later years allowing you to pay everyone.

What am I missing? Why not just restructure Kelce to a 5 year deal and give him a $20M signing bonus? Let him take the $4m and when he retires, the signing bonus goes away like it did for Tom Brady?