Days after the Buffalo Bills saw their season end with a playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, general manager Brandon Beane offered a warning about the offseason ahead.
Just as he had last season, Beane cautioned that the team would not have the cap space to make any significant moves, instead working around the edges to make strategic additions of low-cost players.
“We’re going to be shopping at some of the same stores we were shopping at last year,” Beane said, via SI.com. “We’re not going to Main Street in New York City or wherever those high-end stores are.”
But there are some moves the Bills can make to create breathing space around their tight salary cap, and one insider believes that must start with a $22-million move around quarterback Josh Allen
The Athletic’s Joe Buscaglia broke down a series of potential contract restructures, cuts and trades that the Bills can make in order to dig out from their cap crunch. While he noted that the Bills will have a choice whether to make most of the moves, Allen’s contract restructure will be “involuntary” as the team needs the big chunk of savings his contract would bring.
“Allen has a $47.1 million cap hit, is signed for the next five seasons and the Bills likely are intent on having him a part of their organization through the life of the contract,” Buscaglia wrote. “There are no thoughts of moving on from him anytime soon, which makes it a contract to target for a restructure. The Bills can convert all but the veteran minimum of his $23.5 million base salary, along with his $6 million roster bonus into a prorated signing bonus and nearly chop the cap deficit in half.”
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