Trent Williams has signed and is practicing today

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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

A person isn't a car. A car doesn't skip a workout, because it doesn't like to drive on a highway. Let's look at Revis for a second, he signed a new contract last year, and I presume got some nice upfront cash. Now he is looking at a year where he is playing for only (gasp) 1 million dollars. There is no need to put tons of money up front into a 22 - 23 year olds pocket. He got good money, and the next few years he will get good money, and have incentives not to due dumb off field stunts and/or holdouts, lest he lose that money.

But your main point seems to be, we should do this because if a cap comes back his contract will hurt us. I think that's a bad reason to write a large upfront check. First, the FO has no exact idea of what a new cap would look like, the owners and players could negotiate a grandfather clause that accounts for any large salaries this year. Second, they may not get a cap, in which case you paid out a lot for no reason. Third, and this best answers your concern, we fit a 100million dollar contract under the last cap, when we were one of the top 5 cap strapped teams, If we had gone salary crazy, like Vinnie might have, then I would be worried, but 1 or two big contracts won't destroy any teams budget.

thank you, sir. what you said makes sense.

my main point wasn't that his contract would hurt us. my main point was that getting a lot of the money in his contract into this uncapped year would make it easier on the cap over the final 5 years of his contract. (once again, assuming the cap comes back next year)