When the Buffalo Bills signed wide receiver Stefon Diggs to their contract extension, the question I got the most was “Where is Brandon Beane finding the money for this?” What folks are really asking is about cap space, because Buffalo was snuggly up against the cap prior to the move with some reports being as low as $300,000.
In reality, we knew all along that a Diggs extension was going to actually create cap space in 2022. Much in the same way a contract restructure can push base salary into a new signing bonus to pro-rate the deal over multiple years remaining in a contract, the Bills can do the same thing with a new signing bonus on a new deal for Diggs and that’s exactly what they did.