Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
The LA Rams were stuck between a rock and a hard place in their effort to squeeze under the NFL salary cap for the 2021 season. And the impossibly low chances of finding enough money to sign players critical to the success of the new NFL season was disheartening, to say the least. Of course, the Rams organization had a plan, as they always do.
But the plan relied upon the cooperation of players. To some, it was less painful, merely an accounting trick called restructuring where money is no longer called salary, but rather given a designation of bonus so accountants for the team can spread that cap over more years.