Despite using a few of them in recent years, Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane has said he’s not a big fan of doing salary-to-bonus contract restructures. Beanse spoke with the media from the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
In NFL contracts, signing bonuses are spread out over the remaining years of the deal while base salary is accounted for in the current year. A salary-to-bonus restructure gives a player nearly all of their money up front in the form of a new signing bonus and spreads out the cap hit over multiple seasons. Beane isn’t a fan, likening it to a credit card.