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Here Comes The Ugly: Packers Restructure Bakhtiari's Contract

In a widely anticipated maneuver, the Packers restructured David Bakhtiari's contract to reduce his cap number by $9.264 million. They reduced his base salary to the minimum (from $3.2M to $1.12M) and converted all of his $9.5M roster bonus while adding two void years. The total amount converted was $11.58M over 5 years.

The Packers left his $700K workout bonus alone, and did nothing with his $600K game active bonus, probably because he only played one game last year so only $35,294 counts against the cap as likely-to-be-earned. Note that when Bakhtiari plays his second game and every game after that, the Packers cap space will be reduced by that $35,294 figure immediately, not after the season.