Eagles, Ertz restructure contract to save cap space

Brandon Apter, Sports Talk Philly editor  

The Philadelphia Eagles added Alshon Jeffery and Torrey Smith, signed offensive lineman Chance Warmack and brought Steven Wisniewski back on a three-year deal last week. In doing so, they got themselves strapped to the waist in terms of cap space, keeping them from being able to re-sign a guy like Bennie Logan, who is now headed to Kansas City.

On Sunday, they got some cap relief from Zach Ertz's contract, restructuring his deal so that a part of his salary turns into a roster bonus, saving the team some money this year.

Source: the Eagles turned $3.225M of TE Zach Ertz' base salary in 2017 into a guaranteed roster bonus, creating $2.58M in cap space.

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Per CSNPhilly.com, Ertz was set to have a base salary of $4 million with a total cap hit of $5.6 million. The restructuring spreads the cap hit out over a longer period of time while Ertz will get his money now.