salary cap hell!
An interesting thought exercise, where would these restructuring bonuses rank against signing bonuses for active contracts at each player's position? The top ten excluding the positionless Hill. Third column is approximate restructuring bonus, last column is how that bonus would rank against signing bonuses at the position.
| Carr | QB | $28.8m | 9th |
| Ramczyk | RT | $15.8m | 4th |
| Jordan | Edge | $11.8m | 31st |
| Kamara | RB | $10.5m | 6th |
| Davis | ILB | $10.8m | 4th |
| McCoy | C | $8.9m | 3rd |
| Mathieu | SS | $7.8m | 9th |
| Ruiz | OG | $8.2m | 15th |
| Maye | FS | $6.0m | 7th |
| Johnson | TE | $4.8m | 22nd |
The question becomes whether these players would be worth those signing bonuses if restructuring wasn't a requirement and we were signing them to a new deal today. Eight of the ten players are getting top ten bonuses, probably nine if you include Ruiz since they don't have separate rankings for left and right guards.