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Here's the guaranteed money that the Cowboys gave to each of the 21 UDFAs that they signed right after the draft -- G Ron Leary $214,000 ($9,000 SB, $205,000 of salary guaranteed) WR Tim Benford $20,000 ($0 SB, $20,000 of salary guaranteed) WR Saalim Hakim $17,500 ($10,000 SB...

It is the same as the percentage increase in the "base" rookie pool. Last year, the league-wide rookie pool -- not including comp picks and undrafted players, which is why I call it the "base" rookie pool -- was set at $159 million. This year, the only increase was that the rookie minimum went...

That's not correct. Under the old CBA, a team could pay a UDFA as much as it wanted, as long as it could afford it under its rookie pool. And the new undrafted rookie reservation doesn't prevent a UDFA from getting more than a drafted player. If some team had wanted to pay a UDFA more than a...

There are adjustments from 2009 being applied to this year's cap. It's not the usual "carrying over," but teams are receiving adjustments.

I've been told that the $3.5 million is already built into the $120.375 million cap.

I wondered why my blog traffic jumped up all of a sudden today, and now I know why.

The Patriots got that pick as compensation for losing Todd Collins.

Theoretically, a team could convert all but the minimum salary to a signing bonus and give it to the player up front, as they normally would. The salary increases would be much smaller each year after this, but they could make up the difference with a completion bonus (or multiple completion...

As eom mentioned, I explained it on my blog (AdamJT13). PFT didn't quite get it correct, though. (I tried to tell Florio that in the comments, but it still hasn't shown up 10 hours later. If he moderates the comments, maybe he decided not to publish mine.) The bonuses don't kick in at the...

I'm guessing it's because any option in the contract must give considerations to both parties in the contract. In other words, in exchange for X, which benefits the party exercising the option, that party grants Y, which benefits the other party. For example, a team pays a bonus (which benefits...

That contract would not be approved (a fact that I have verified through an agent) because of the bonus payment in the player's option. However, there IS a loophole in the 30 percent rule that one team has used to a very small degree this offseason. I'm working on a writeup about it that I...

I think you meant exempt from the 30 percent rule, since nothing is exempt from the CBA. But it cannot be done. The only compelling consequences of a non-exercise of the option -- money and contract years -- both fall under the 30 percent rule.

Contracts that were signed prior to the owners' opt-out (May 20, 2008) treated 2011 as the final capped year and had to comply with the 30 percent rule starting in 2011. Contracts must comply when they are signed, so there was no retroactive enforcement of the rule after the opt-out. So as long...

Yes, any monetary protection a team can offer a player in case it doesn't exercise the option will trigger the 30 percent problem. No player will sign a contract in which a team has the option of NOT paying a huge bonus without getting something significant in return — either money (which would...

Haynesworth's contract (and every other contract) complies with the 30 percent rule whether the option is exercised or not. His option bonus is not "guaranteed," per se, rather it is a "protected" option bonus -- if the bonus is not paid, he gets the money in the form of guaranteed salaries...

If that's a loophole, it's not a useful one because the player isn't assured of ever seeing any additional money, even if he plays out the contract. It's sort of a "we'll pay you more money if we feel like it" loophole.

Not exactly. There is no loophole around the 30 percent rule. Every dollar is either 1) subject to the 30 percent rule; 2) treated as a signing bonus and prorated, starting in this season; or 3) an NLTBE incentive.

I haven't waded through this entire thread, but you're award that the contract you proposed violates the 30 percent rule, aren't you?

Just for everyone's information, I had to update a few comp picks. The Cardinals actually had TWO defensive linemen named Bryan Robinson on their roster last year during training camp. One of them was cut at the end of training camp, and I incorrectly disqualified the UFA they signed from...

Five years, $14.4 million, including a $1.5 million signing bonus. There's a $1.2 million option bonus in 2011 and $100,000 workout bonuses each season. His base salaries are $1.6 million, $2.0 million, $2.1 million, $2.6 million and $2.9 million.