It is no secret that the Green Bay Packers need to cut salary. The team does not know what the cap will be next season, but they do know that it will be lower than what it was this season. The teams needs to free up about $28 million in cap space.
This weekend, Ian Rapoport reported that the Packers created about $8.3 million in cap space by restructuring Bakhtiari’s deal. Basically, what the team did was convert roughly his $11 million roster bonus into a signing bonus. This doesn’t change Bakhtiari’s deal it just helps the Packers with their cap space in the short term.