With the NFL offseason in full swing, there will be plenty of talk of the salary cap, cap relief, dead money and more. One way teams can alleviate some of the dead money that counts against the salary cap is with a June 1 designation, which will spread out the dead money caused by a release or trade over two seasons if the player’s contract goes beyond the current year.
Players cut or traded after June 1 or when a team cuts or trades a player and designates it as a post-June 1 move, affect the salary cap less.
That is not available this year. Barring a new collective bargaining agreement is put in place, there is no post-June 1 designation.
Per the current CBA, in its final year (2020), any cut or trade at any time this year will accelerate all prorated bonus money (dead money) to the current year.
This affects all NFL teams equally, so even with an increased salary cap, the increase is mitigated by bigger dead money hits later in the year, assuming that nothing changes with the CBA before then.
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