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#399: Deshaun Watson, Aaron Rodgers, the NFL Salary Cap, & MLB Trade Candidates

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Green Bay Can't Eat His Dead Cap, if He Retires

The 39-year-old is guaranteed forty two million dollars cash this year, a basically minimum salary, and a forty point eight million dollar rostra bonus. The fact that that was a rostra bonus fully guaranteed its signing, which means you have to prorate it like a signing bon but the fact that it was considered a roster bonus, contractorally speaking, means that the packers can't recoup it. "I don't know why he would leave a hundred and ten million dollars sitting on the table through 20 24," says Brent Musburger.

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