The Green Bay Packers are working to pare their payroll so they can comply with the salary cap. | Wikilmages/Pixabay
The Green Bay Packers are working to pare their payroll so they can comply with the salary cap. | Wikilmages/Pixabay
The Green Bay Packers have restructured David Bakhtiari's deal in a move to help the team get under the salary cap, a sports analyst says.
The team took over $11 million of the left tackle's compensation and converted it to a bonus instead, Field Yates, an NFL Insider with ESPN, tweeted Tuesday.
The restructured deal applies to the 2022-23 salary cap. The deal calls for taking $11.58 million of Bakhtiari's salary for 2022 spreading it out over the rest of his contract as a bonus, instead of maxing out the 2022-23 salary cap, according to profootballtalk.nbcsports.com.
The restructuring of Bakhtiari’s compensation frees up approximately $9.26 million in salary cap space for the Packers, who must figure out how to get the team under the cap of $208.2 million, packersnews.com reported.
The NFL established salary caps in 1994 to try to ensure more parity among all the teams. With such limits on how much they can spend, big-market teams that make more money through television deals can't just attract all the best players to their team by offering them bigger paychecks.
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