How important is this year in the front office in terms of how much capital they are willing to invest by restructuring contracts and pushing money into the future?
We’ll let the GM do the talking for this one.
Andrew Berry has never preferred to discuss any contract matters with the media, but he didn’t rule out that contract restructures could be ahead when he was asked at the combine if there’s a benefit to knowing how much cap space will be designated to Deshaun Watson as the starting QB when making other roster decisions.
“I don’t know if it’s necessarily a benefit because even that can change based on your yearly strategy,” he said. “That is not to suggest that is not a contract that could get touched at some point over the next several years, so I would not say that in and of itself drives anything.”
Asked specifically if the Browns could restructure Watson’s contract this offseason to reduce the cap hit, Berry said this:
“It could be on the table, but there is a lot of flexibility in terms of what we can do from a cap perspective.”
“Flexibility” was a term Berry used a lot when talking about how the Browns could create their desired cap space for this offseason and beyond. Contract restructures are certainly a big part of that, but there are also other ways the Browns could increase the amount of money they feel they’ll need to add talent this offseason.
“We look at really kind of two different mechanisms,” Berry said. “We look at the cash that we want to spend, and then the cap is really an accounting mechanism for that. The rules are flexible. Whether it’s releasing a player, trading a player, restructuring a deal or negotiating an extension, there are a number of different avenues to create cap space, and the approach we would take would really be dictated by the opportunities in front of us.”
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