The New England Patriots restructured the final year of Rex Burkhead's contract, according to ESPN's Field Yates.
New England handed the veteran running back a three-year, $9.75 million deal in 2018. Yates reported the Patriots freed up a little bit of salary-cap space by reworking the terms of his 2020 payout.
Field YatesSource: the Patriots and RB Rex Burkhead have agreed to a reworked final year of his contract. Burkhead gets $550K to sign and drops his base salary from $2.5M to $1.