Saints sign WR Brandin Cooks to a 2-year, $13 million deal

The one thing I have noticed, no one has mentioned any guarantees. From my understanding, if he doesn’t make the team we owe him nothing.

Seems unlikely. Whatever his salary is, that will be his dead cap also. I don't think he would sign without full guarantees because then he's not being paid $X as reported, he's being paid less than $X.

$7M dead cap is not nothing, but it's actually normal.