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USAT: Packers Wire

Feb 10, 2022

The Green Bay Packers need to shed around $50 million of cap space – and possibly even $20 million more if the team wants to use the franchise tag on receiver Davante Adams – by the start of the new league year on March 16. - Unless the Packers want to cut a bunch of veteran players and begin a mini-rebuild, various salary cap mechanics will need to be used to get the team under the cap by next month. - The most obvious mechanic: converting base and roster bonuses into signing bonuses. This is an attractive salary-cap maneuver because the team can spread expensive one-time payments on the cap over several years, which pushes money into the future but also lessens the strain on the cap this year. - The Packers can even add void years to a restructure to spread out the cap hit over more years and create even more savings. If they want to do a full restructure, they can convert part of the base salary and add void years to deals. - Here are three players with the roster bonuses and restructure savings that the Packers will likely use to help solve a part of the team’s cap problem.

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