With a salary cap plunge of more than $15 million from last season—and really, about $25 million from where it would have otherwise been expected to be this year—teams have been tasked with being creative in going about financing their roster this year.
The latest trend, as we have seen in a number of prominent deals already this offseason, has been the use of voidable years tacked onto the end of contracts that allow teams to spread out a signing bonus over a longer period of time on years that do not contain anymore more than token salaries—generally on deals that automatically void at that point.