The Green Bay Packers and safety Adrian Amos agreed to a four-year, $37 million deal that included an $11 million signing bonus on Tuesday.
Here’s how the contract breaks down, based on reporting from ESPN’s Rob Demovsky:
Base salaries by year: $1.25 million, $1.75 million, $4.9 million, $7 million
Signing bonus: $11 million
Per-game roster bonuses: $25,000 46-man active roster bonus ($400,000 per year)
Other roster bonuses: $1 million due third league day of 2019, $4 million due third league day of 2020, $1.5 million due third league day of 2021
Workout bonuses: $500,000 per year
Incentives: $1 million
| Year | Base | Signing | Roster | Workout | Cap hit | Dead cap |
| 2019 | $1,250,000 | $2,750,000 | $1,400,000 | $500,000 | $5,900,000 | $12,000,000 |
| 2020 | $1,750,000 | $2,750,000 | $4,400,000 | $500,000 | $9,400,000 | $8,250,000 |
| 2021 | $4,900,000 | $2,750,000 | $1,900,000 | $500,000 | $10,050,000 | $5,500,000 |
| 2022 | $7,000,000 | $2,750,000 | $400,000 | $500,000 | $10,650,000 | $2,750,000 |
The deal pays out $20.8 million in the first two years and includes $12 million in gurantees, based on an $11 million signing bonus and a $1 million roster bonus paid right away in 2019.
The Packers could get out after two seasons at a marginal cost ($5.5 million dead), functionally making this a two-year, $20.8 million deal. At the very least, it must be considered a three-year, $28
Like Za’Darius Smith’s deal, Amos’ contract includes roster bonuses paid out during the second and third years. If Amos flops, the Packers would likely consider canceling the deal before paying his $1.5 million roster bonus in 2021.
The deal is frontloaded financially but backloaded cap-wise, with a big signing bonus prorated over four years and escalating base salaries helping keep the first year cap hit low ($5.9 million).
