One team's accounting error is one league's salary-cap violation.
The NFL docked the Houston Texans a fifth-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft and fined them $175,000 for providing former quarterback Deshaun Watson "with undisclosed compensation in the form of a membership at an alternative athletic facility in 2020."
The Texans' defense was that it was an accounting error, that they paid for Watson to train at the facility while theirs was closed due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
"The club absorbed $26,777 in costs for player benefits for the use of alternate athletic facilities, which it understands should have been charged instead to player salaries," the Texans said in a statement.