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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1057393" data-attributes="member: 7261">Are you talking about Rodgers?  Rodgers eventually signed a new contract with the Jets after the trade.Had he not, the Jets themselves would have been paying Rodgers the same new money as the Packers would have.  However, since the Packers had a ton of "old money" still on the books and unreported on the cap, they had to declare it as dead cap.  BTW, the new deal that Rodgers signed with the Jets, had ZERO impact on what the Packers dead cap hit from Rodgers was.Most players with existing contracts leave behind "unreported" hits on their old team, basically, that is the dead cap and represents money already paid out to said player.Also of Note:  To facilitate his trade to the Jets in 2023, Rodgers restructured his contract with the Packers in April, pushing a $58.3 million option bonus (fully guaranteed) into 2024.Basically, the four-time NFL MVP was on the books for three months at the minimum salary in 2023 -- only $1.2 million against the cap.</blockquote>

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