IRVING, Texas -- The Dallas Cowboys saved $321,000 in 2016 salary-cap space by signing safety Jeff Heath to a four-year contract last week.
Heath was set to count $1.671 million against the cap as a restricted free agent. With the new deal, he will count $1.35 million.
Heath received a $1.8 million signing bonus as part of the deal and will make $900,000 in base salary. The base value of the deal is $7.671 million, and he can earn an extra $500,000 in 2018 and '19 through play-time incentives.
Heath’s base salaries are $1.