Owners Pondering Idea of QBs Having Separate Salary Cap

Just something that popped into my head -- not sure if this helps or doesn't really change anything:

- Eliminate being able to push salary cap money into future years. Each team's cap should be reckoned one season at a time, and flattened back down to zero at the beginning of each league year. (This could require a few seasons of back-out for teams that have a lot of future money dedicated. Maybe instead allow a one-shot uncapped payout to clear the books).

- After that's set up, each team gets two annual salary cap budgets. Probably each equal in size (50% of that year's overall cap per team) but that could be played with.

- One bucket - The A-Cap - is for a team's designated top-5 (or some other small number) salaries for that season. A player from any position would be allowed to be reckoned in that bucket, but realistically it would be chiefly QBs, pass rushers, WRs, CBs, and left tackles. Some elites at TE and LB could maybe make into that bucket as well.

- The other bucket - The B Cap - is for the entire rest of the team.

- To help with the strict year-by-year cap reckoning, player salaries will be negotiated not as dollars, but as percentages of cap. A star QB contract could look something like this:


Or it could be front-loaded:

And yes, salaries would be largely guaranteed. In some way that they aren't now. Maybe not 100% guaranteed for all players, but something.

EDIT: Actually, thinking on it some ...maybe fully guaranteed contracts would be a good concession to get the NFLPA to agree to a creative salary-cap re-do.