With week one in the books, mercurial future Hall of Fame wide receiver Antonio Brown is set to join the Patriots this week. During the mayhem of reports this past Saturday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the deal would for one year, with a total of $15 million — $9 million of which would come in the form of a signing bonus.
As reported, a deal with those parameters would not have fit under the Patriots’ salary cap, as they currently have around $6.4 million in cap space. Naturally, this created many questions as to the deal’s structure, and which player, or players, on the 53-man roster would have to be cut to create the space needed to fit Brown’s deal comfortably under the cap.