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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 461154">Signing bonuses are guaranteed cash payments to the player, but are prorated over the term of the contract for cap purposes.  However, when you cut a guy, all of the remaining signing bonus not already prorated to prior years counts against the cap in the year you cut him. In the Hawk example, the $8 mil signing bonus is prorated at $1.6 mil per year for the 5 years. So, had Hawk been cut this past off season, the $6.4 mil balance of the signing bonus (4 years x $1.6 mil) would have counted against the 2012 cap.  Keeping him in 2012 counts $6.55 mil against the cap ($4.95 mil in salary/other bonuses + 1.6 mil in prorated signing bonus). Cutting Hawk in 2012 would have cost more from a cap standpoint than keeping him, when you add in the cost to pay a roster replacement.  Given this fact, his roster spot was never in doubt for this 2012.  And when you know there's no way you can get rid of a guy, there's no point is saying anything but good things about him. In 2013, the cap cost to cut him will be $4.8 mil (3 x $1.8 mil) vs. cap cost to keep of $7.05 mil ($5.45 mil salary/other bonus + $1.6 mil prorated signing bonus).  Cutting still looks somewhat prohibitive. That's why the piece talks about Hawk's vulnerability after 2013.</blockquote>

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