The 49ers recently restructured the contracts of two offensive mainstays that cleared up a heap of cap space, Ely Allen of Pro Football Rumors reports. According to ESPN’s Field Yates and Adam Schefter, both tight end George Kittle and fullback Kyle Juszczyk agreed to restructured contracts to help lessen their impact on the salary cap.
Charean Williams of NBC Sports provided us with some details on Kittle’s newly redone deal. The veteran tight end was set to have a base salary of $13.4MM with a cap hit of $21.96MM in 2024. Instead, the team converted $12.19 million of his base salary for 2024 into a signing bonus while adding one voidable year to the existing two already at the tail end of his contract. The move cleared up $9.75MM of space in the team’s salary cap.
While Schefter’s initial report claimed that the restructure for Juszczyk would free up approximately $1.75 million of cap space, a later report from Tom Pelissero of NFL Network laid out some details that would clear almost $4MM of cap space. The restructured deal will reportedly reduce his base salary in both 2024 and 2025, forming what is essentially now a two-year, $9.1 million contract. In exchange for the reduced pay, San Francisco gave Juszczyk $4MM of new guarantees.
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