The early Twitter reports on DE Von Miller’s contract with the Washington Commanders said that it was a one-year deal with a base value of $6.1m and a total value of up to $10m.
Over the Cap has now posted details of the deal.
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You can see that Miller’s contract has 3 main components:
- Base salary of $1.995m (fully guaranteed)
- Signing bonus of $3m
- Per game roster bonuses amounting to $1.105m for 17 games ($65k per game)
Adding these three components together, indeed, gets us to the reported $6.