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The Los Angeles Rams returned Aaron Donald to their roster on a one-year, $20 million deal this week despite carrying major new obligations for Matthew Stafford, Trent McDuffie, Myles Garrett, and Jaylen Watson.
Sports agent Leigh Steinberg, speaking in a recent interview, said the Rams accomplished this through what he called "caponomics": restructuring existing contracts to reduce near-term salary, converting base pay into upfront bonuses, and pushing the resulting cap charges into future seasons through void years.
How the obligations are stacked Stafford's one-year, $55 million extension carries void years that spread his cap charge through 2031, a liability that will register against Los Angeles long after he is no longer on the team.
McDuffie, acquired from the Kansas City Chiefs and locked to a four-year, $124 million extension, carries a cap hit of $10.8 million this season.
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