The numbers are in. David Bakhtiari’s contract is official, and the full structure of the deal between the Green Bay Packers and their current and future left tackle is fully available.
While the cap number for 2021 looks big — just shy of $20 million at present, with a shrinking salary cap expected to be around $175 million — the Packers reserved the ability to spread some of that cap hit out into 2022 and beyond, when the cap is expected to rebound. It’s a clever bit of accounting by Russ Ball and company, and it allowed Bakhtiari to still clean up with a big signing bonus last week while keeping his cash flow consistent over the next few years.