The Falcons cap space has arguably been the biggest challenge new general manager Terry Fontenot has had to take on. His max salary-to-bonus conversion for Matt Ryan was necessary to get under the salary cap in time for the 2021 NFL league year but everyone knew that more had to be done.
The two remaining players that made sense to restructure or extend? Grady Jarrett and Deion Jones. Well, it looks like Fontenot has done just that with the latter.
The Falcons needed to create some cap room and worked with @DrewJRosenhaus to find a creative way to rework the deal of star LB Deion Jones to gain $4M of it.