CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Carolina Panthers restructured the deals of running back Christian McCaffrey and linebacker Shaq Thompson to clear more than $11 million in salary-cap space.
They saved $5.6 million in space on McCaffrey, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter, by converting his 2021 base salary of just over $8 million into signing bonus.
This came less than a year after McCaffrey signed a four-year, $64 million extension that made him the highest-paid running back in NFL history at $16 million a year.
According to Schefter, they saved $6.126 million on Thompson, who in December 2019 signed a four-year, $54.