With teams across the NFL looking to come into compliance with the decreased salary cap for 2021, in recent days reports have become more common about teams taking advantage of the mechanics of the cap to reduce the 2021 cap hit for players by converting base salary to signing bonus. Teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints have created substantial amounts of cap space through the conversion of base salary to signing bonus.
With the Seattle Seahawks set to be right in the neighborhood of the salary cap once it is finally set in the next couple of weeks, the logical question is to look at which of the players on the roster could potentially have their base salary converted to signing bonus in order to create cap space.