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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 948029" data-attributes="member: 7261">I will take a stab at this.Those Cap hits will occur one way or another.  They would all hit in 2022, if the Packers don't do anything with King, since his contract automatically voids 23 days before the 22 league year.  Now if they work out a deal and extend him, those cap hits can also be extended (or left as they look now).I think what Captain is basically saying is....Once a guy is no longer on the team, his cap hit(s) come due.  If a player is cut post June 1, that cap hit(s) can be divided between the upcoming season and the next."Void years" are usually a sneaky way to reduce a cap in the current year, by spreading the full hit out over multiple "fake years", which are years that the player most likely won't be a part of the team.In the King situation, the Packers resigned him last year to a "5 year deal" worth close to $4.92M/year.  But they didn't want that big of a cap hit in 2021, which they would have had by making it a one year deal.  So they made the other 4 years voidable and spread last years cap hit out over all 5 years, thus only having $1,929,412 hit the cap last year. So if he is done in GB, they get hit with the $3M they pushed out from last season in 2022.</blockquote>

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