Redskins Salary Cap Status 2018

[MTK]

John Keim:
Linebacker Zach Brown's contract includes a $4.5 million signing bonus and a $1 million base salary in 2018. In 2019, he has a $6.7 million base salary, with $4.5 million guaranteed for injury only. And his third year has a $7.5 million base salary. He has a roster bonus in 2017 up to $250,000; it goes up to 500,000 in each of the last two years. The Redskins could cut him after one year with only a $3 penalty -- that could be spread over two years with a post-June 1 release.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by MTK

John Keim:
Linebacker Zach Brown's contract includes a $4.5 million signing bonus and a $1 million base salary in 2018. In 2019, he has a $6.7 million base salary, with $4.5 million guaranteed for injury only. And his third year has a $7.5 million base salary. He has a roster bonus in 2017 up to $250,000; it goes up to 500,000 in each of the last two years. The Redskins could cut him after one year with only a $3 penalty -- that could be spread over two years with a post-June 1 release.

I saw that too. I did the math on it, that adds up to only $21M. It's possible the other $3M is built into incentives somehow, and that's how you get to a total value of $24M as reported.

If that's the case, then Brown's cap hit in 2018 will be $2.75M, not $5.0M as I had estimated.

But I don't wanna mark it down as revised until I understand the structure on the incentives, or whatever else accounts for the rest of the reported $24M total value.