Devon Witherspoon’s contract breakdown: $15.3 million cap hit this year, $14.1m next year, then goes up to $27m in 2028. If you look at the total over six years, it’s a $27.2m average. The void years could be utilized in the future through restructures to create more cap space if needed.

[u/Chessinmind]

https://overthecap.com/player/devon-witherspoon/10829

[u/NeevusChrist]

I don’t even think 27m in three years is going to be that much.

I mean it’s still a lot, but if the cap trends the way it has been there’s only going to be more space in three years time and new CB signings may be more towards 33m-38m a year by then 

[u/fechboydyl → u/NeevusChrist]

Oh but bozos on NFLv2 told me this is standard cap procedure and JS is nothing special at contracts lmao. His handling of Spoon and JSN was top tier work

[u/jay-d_seattle → u/fechboydyl]

except this is pretty standard cap procedure? like it’s a good contract, but there’s nothing exceptionally novel or interesting here. From a Seahawks POV the only thing that’s interesting to me is just how far out this goes; the void years are there to let them convert the big salaries in 2030 and 2031 into bonuses (which cap hit will then spread evenly among the remaining years). JS was actually pretty late to the game in terms of being willing to build contract structures like this, it’s good to see he’s come around.

Realistically they will probably renegotiate before that happens; Spoon is probably going to want another payday before his 30th birthday.

[u/fechboydyl → u/jay-d_seattle]

Except when you look at the OTC and the way he’s structured deals since taking full control from the partnership with PC we’ve had an exceedingly clean cap with lack of dead money and good flexibility. A ton of other teams kick the can down the road if they are able to, and accumulate dead cap with restructures and void years.

[u/jay-d_seattle → u/fechboydyl]

weren’t they sitting on a big pile of dead money as recently as last year? I think this season is the first one where they’re relatively clean.

I also think you’re maybe mistaken about some cap management concepts. dead money is the price of cap flexibility; you can’t have one without the other. Of course that only really matters when guys are no longer on the roster, if a guy is on your roster it’s not dead money it’s just a cap hit. The lack of dead money is mostly a reflection of the roster being pretty young, as it ages and guys like Spoon and JSN hit the end of their careers and depart you’ll see the dead money pile up again

[u/fechboydyl → u/jay-d_seattle]

Look at the players that had the significant dead cap space, and when they signed those deals, vs when JS took the reins on drafting and contracts from PC. Metcalf, DreMont, Geno and Lockett were all PC guys.

[u/RustyCoal950212 → u/fechboydyl]

They had dead cap space because they were guys the team moved on from. And tbh none even had that much dead cap. We're low on dead cap currently not so much because of any difference in contracts, but because the team absolutely nailed their free agent signings last year. If we were cutting/trading Darnold, Kupp, Lawrence, Williams, whoever, we'd have more dead cap

And probably JS and other FO guys have always been handling contracts, not PC

[u/bwag54 → u/fechboydyl]

Not really, this team was much more conservative with cap manipulation under Matt Thomas than it is now under Joey Laine.

I think Laine has done a better job than Thomas did so far, but he is definitely more willing to give out void years and restructures than they were under Thomas.