Philadelphia Eagles: 5 contracts that should be restructured this offseason
By David Esser
The Philadelphia Eagles can create some cap space with these restructures.
As I’m sure everyone knows by now, the Philadelphia Eagles are in a bit of a messy cap situation at the moment. Howie Roseman and company were banking on a heightened salary cap to help them get out of some of their more financially irresponsible contracts, but crashing revenue due to COVID-19 put an end to all that.
A lot of the Eagles “backloaded” contracts are starting to catch up to them, and they’re going to have to get creative this spring just to get under the league wide salary cap.
One way to do that is via *restructuring* (stretching out the money over more years to lower the immediate cap number), and there are five contracts on the Eagles’ books that immediately jump out to me in that department:
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Brandon Graham
As I’m writing this, Brandon Graham is set to make $17.9 million in 2021. I love BG, but there’s just simply not a chance in hell that the Philadelphia Eagles pay him that much money next season.
Graham is an easy restructure to facilitate because he played really well this past season. Heading into 2020, there were some genuine questions marks regarding his age, and how much longer he’d be able to play at an elite level. Graham silenced all doubters in 2020, posting 8.0 sacks and making the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career.
Due to Graham’s awesome play this past season, the Eagles can easily justify extending him for another 2-3 seasons, in turn lowering that $17.9 million cap number to something far more reasonable. It’s a win win for both sides, BG gets another couple years of financial security, and the Eagles get some immediate cap relief.