Participant action is critical to making decisions ahead of the industry deadline of Tuesday, Nov. 5, especially for wide receivers. With three weeks left until kickoff, it was an eventful time for participants in Monday night’s tournament between the Buffalo Expenses and Untouched York Jets. Davante Adams and Amari Cooper have unused football properties.
Davante Adams
The industry request Adams made two weeks ago has been granted. The Las Vegas Raiders traded Adams to the York Untouched Jets, their most popular vacation spot, for a conditional 2025 third-round pick. He becomes a 2025 second-round pick with Adams being named first- or second-team All-Pro by Associated Press, or the Jets playing in the AFC championship or the Super Bowl class Adams is on the active roster for that tournament. .
Adams missed three games at most due to a hamstring injury, making it more difficult to earn All-Pro honors. The Jets have not played in the AFC name since the 2010 season, which was the best season in which the playoffs have been held.
The Jets are going “all in” to fight to salvage a 2-4 start in 2024 with the purchase of the three-time All-Pro from the first group. Adams reunites with Aaron Rodgers, who was his quarterback during his eight seasons playing for the Green Bay Packers (2014 to 2021).
The Raiders didn’t get the initial value of a second-round pick and a supplemental asset for Adams. Once the situation was fulfilled alternative to phase tactics with Adams. The Raiders have been adamant about not converting a portion of Adams’ 2024 salary into an early signing bonus to make it easier for the receiving team to absorb his promise.
The Jets are taking on the too-large $11.59 million of Adams’ reimbursement for 2024. The $11.59 million is made up of 12/18 of Adams’ $16.89 million minimum salary ($11.26 million) and 11 game benefits of his $510,000 in staff bonuses through which you will obtain $30,000 for each competition in which you are active ($330,000).
Adams, who will turn 32 on Dec. 24, can be promised two additional career years during the 2026 season for $72.5 million. He earns $36.25 million for both 2025 and 2026, which includes a minimum salary of $35.64 million, $510,000 in per-game roster bonuses and a $100,000 activity bonus. None of the $72.5 million is insured.
Those salaries were included for cosmetic purposes in the trade Adams signed in March 2022 when the Packers traded him to the Raiders, then designating him as the franchise player. The promise was artificially inflated to $140 million over five years, so Adams could very well be the NFL’s highest-paid wide receiver on paper at $28 million per year instead of having a three-year, $67.5 million promise with an average of $22.5 million per year. months.
The Jets immediately restructured Adams’ promise to cut his $11.59 million cap hit by 2024. Adams’ cap hit drop in 2024 was reportedly reduced to $3.21 million, where the fictitious/annulled promised years of 2027 and 2028.
What likely happened was that $10,453,333 of Adams’ minimum salary of $11.26 million in 2024 was transformed into a signing bonus and prorated through 2028. The $806,667 represents the prorated amount of Adams’ league minimum salary of $1.21 million in 2024 for 12 weeks. The $330,000 in roster bonuses ($50,000 for each active competition) remain as a cap rate for 2024.
This move frees up $8,362,667 from the cap field for 2024. Adams’ unused cap figure for 2024 becomes $3,227,333 to be exact. Adams’ top numbers for 2025 and 2026 each increase from $2,090,666 to $38,340,666. Assuming this interpretation is correct, the $38,340,666 is the largest amount of the NFL salary cap in 2025 for a non-quarterback.
There should be a renegotiation of Adams’ salaries for 2025 and 2026 to a market-rate promise at some point to prevent him from being just a downsized condo for the Jets. If Adams’ tenure is only for the remainder of the 2024 season, the Jets would have $8,362,667 of wasted money, a salary cap rate for a player not on a team’s roster, by releasing him in 2025 before June 2 .
The Raiders have a net gain of $11.68 million in the 2024 salary cap field with the industry. Adams had the Raiders’ second-highest cap hit in 2024 at $25.35 million. His retirement leaves the Raiders with $13.67 million in worthless cash for 2024. The $13.67 million is made up of the $5.63 million 2024 minimum salary (6/18 of $16.89 million) and $90,000 in bonuses from the roster competition Adams earned this season prior to the industry, plus $3.85 million signing bonus proration from his $19.25 million. signing bonus and $4 million in bonus proration in connection with a restructure of the 2022 pledge made to build a salary cap field.
The Raiders have $15.7 million of wasted money for Adams in 2025. The cap savings for 2025 is $28.4 million since Adams’ 2025 cap hit was $44.1 million. His $44.1 million 2026 salary cap hit was even wiped from the Las Vegas industry’s books.
The Raiders are in an excellent cap situation for 2025. According to NFLPA data, the Raiders have the second-lowest cap balance for 2025 at just under $177.15 million. There are only 33 promising players for next year which will rule 51 players with off-season salary cap accounting.
Amari Cooper
The Buffalo Bills expressed interest in acquiring Adams before he was traded to the Jets. Only having $2.909 million of the 2024 salary cap, according to NFLPA data, and a reasonable negative path to generating more through the restructuring word of honor made an industry unattainable given the Raiders’ lack of will to consume wages to help consummate an exchange.
Expenses were temporarily passed to Cooper. He once it was obtained from the Cleveland Browns for a 2025 third-round pick. There was also a late-round trade with the Costes getting a 2025 sixth-round pick and a 2026 seventh-round pick taking them to the Browns.
It was once clear that Cooper was not a fit for Cleveland’s long-term plans. Cooper was part of the trade package the Browns presented to the San Francisco 49ers during the offseason for the class of wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk they were holding onto as unused promise.
Cooper later unsuccessfully sought an unused trade, as 2024 is his promised year. The Browns adjusted Cooper’s current pledge to the year in July at the start of training camp. The addition of $5 million in likely unearned incentives (NLTBE) offers Cooper the opportunity to earn $25 million instead of the $20 million initially scheduled for 2024.
In the converted pledge, $18.79 million of the $20 million was converted to a signing bonus where the fictitious/voided pledge years of 2027 and 2028 were inserted into the trade for proration purposes. The fictitious/voided 2025 and 2026 pledge years were previously added during a 2022 pledge restructure when Cooper was acquired from the Dallas Cowboys in a deal.
Josh Allen is the most efficient quarterback Cooper, 30, has played with during his 10-year NFL career. Cooper is going from arguably the worst basic quarterback in the NFL in Deshaun Watson to a communicator who is considered elite.
Cooper offers the Expenses the real disagreement. 1 long receiver who has lacked his long receiver by committee style since Stefon Diggs was traded to the Houston Texans in early April. The draft pick refund for Cooper is in line with Diggs’ industry. Diggs necessarily went with a third-round pick. The Texans gave the Expenses a 2025 second-round pick for Diggs and a 2024 sixth-round pick.
The July renegotiation of Cooper’s promise made the industry spendable given Buffalo’s cap limitations. The Expenses are most responsible for Cooper’s $806,667 minimum salary of $1.21 million for 2024.
The Browns get an industry-matching 2024 cap amount. There is $7,937,333 of useless 2024 cash consisting of the $403,333 minimum salary Cooper earned prior to the industry, $3.776 million prorated bonus in connection with the 2022 restructure, and $3.758 million prorated signing bonus 18.79 million in the July renegotiation. There is also $22.584 million on Cleveland’s 2025 salary cap attributed to Cooper as a result of the bonus proration associated with his 2025 through and 2028 pledge years.
