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Today I’d like to discuss a tool that teams can use to lower the immediate cap hit of a player contract if cap space is tight this season. The team will eventually have to pay the piper, but structuring the contract can delay the inevitable cap hit, allowing a team to ‘squeeze’ a contract in that they might not have been able to manage otherwise.