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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 615868"><p>I believe Rodgers and Matthews will be candidates for extensions or renegotiations come 2017 to free cap space.</p><p></p><p>In the case of Rodgers, some of the $20.3 mil in cap hit for that season could be pushed out further with a new deal that uses signing bonus to replace some chunk of his nearly $14 mil in salary and bonus, thereby deferring a chunk of the cap hit. Further, by 2017 there will be only $6.7 mil in dead cap on his contract, a residual of the signing bonus in his last deal, so putting on more dead cap in a new signing bonus in 2017 would hardly be mortgaging the future.</p><p></p><p>Rodgers may be willing to make a team friendly deal at that point in the interest of keeping his O-Line as intact as possible.</p><p></p><p>He'll be 36 years old at the conclusion of his current contract. If nothing dire happens to him by the time he hits 33 at the end of the 2016 season, adding a few years to his current deal while clearing some cap space would make sense. His current contract is practically built for a renegotiation/extension at the that point. 2018 at the latest.</p><p></p><p>In 2017, Matthews cap hit will be $15.2 mil, then dropping to $11.4 mil in 2018, the last year of his contract. He'll be 31 years old going into 2017 with 8 high snap count seasons under his belt. If he's showing signs of being an ageless wonder like the others in the "bloodline", his contract could be extended a couple of years, again with a signing bonus to defer some cap. His dead cap drops to $4.1 mil in 2017, so adding some deferred cap does not egregious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 615868"] I believe Rodgers and Matthews will be candidates for extensions or renegotiations come 2017 to free cap space. In the case of Rodgers, some of the $20.3 mil in cap hit for that season could be pushed out further with a new deal that uses signing bonus to replace some chunk of his nearly $14 mil in salary and bonus, thereby deferring a chunk of the cap hit. Further, by 2017 there will be only $6.7 mil in dead cap on his contract, a residual of the signing bonus in his last deal, so putting on more dead cap in a new signing bonus in 2017 would hardly be mortgaging the future. Rodgers may be willing to make a team friendly deal at that point in the interest of keeping his O-Line as intact as possible. He'll be 36 years old at the conclusion of his current contract. If nothing dire happens to him by the time he hits 33 at the end of the 2016 season, adding a few years to his current deal while clearing some cap space would make sense. His current contract is practically built for a renegotiation/extension at the that point. 2018 at the latest. In 2017, Matthews cap hit will be $15.2 mil, then dropping to $11.4 mil in 2018, the last year of his contract. He'll be 31 years old going into 2017 with 8 high snap count seasons under his belt. If he's showing signs of being an ageless wonder like the others in the "bloodline", his contract could be extended a couple of years, again with a signing bonus to defer some cap. His dead cap drops to $4.1 mil in 2017, so adding some deferred cap does not egregious. [/QUOTE]
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