Archuleta traded to Bears for 6th round pick

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

Regarding Archuleta's contract, did you guys notice that his deal with Chicago will include $5 million in guarantees? So says the ESPN article.

$5 million is exactly what we owed him tomorrow when the second half of his guaranteed money was due to him.

I await the numbers from La Canfora, but I'd venture to guess that somehow the Skins managed to transfer that $5 million payment over to the Bears. If true, the 'Skins would be taking a $4 million dead cap hit this year on Archuleta, meaning making the trade only ate up $1.7 million of incremental cap space, meaning we'd be sitting here with about $8 million in 2007 cap space.

Maybe CC knows if such a transfer of guaranteed payments can be done under the new collective bargaining agreement?

It bears watching. But if I had to bet, I'd guess that we are not eating the full $9 million in dead cap money. I think we probably got out of some of that somehow.

Curious that all rumblings regarding Dre Bly have been silent to this point... if we've resolved Archuleta without taking a huge cap hit from him then the door is open for Mr. Bly.

ALL SPECULATION ON MY PART. But my speculation is probably more accurate than anything on PFT!

Sounds like the 5 mil we owed got passed on to them and they probably redid his deal so he still got it but in broken up bonuses over the next few years. This way he doesn't take a salary cut really and we don't take the 5 mil cap hit.

I am pretty sure this deal wouldn't have happened unless Snyder could avoid paying him the 5 mil. He'd be paying 5 mil to a guy he was getting rid of. If they HAD to pay the 5 mil there's just no way they get rid of him. They use him as a damn tackling dummy at the very least to get some value.