The Jacksonville Jaguars made another reported salary cap maneuver.
According to Aaron Wilson, the Jaguars restructured the contract of cornerback Jourdan Lewis by converting $7.7 million of his 2026 base salary into a signing bonus.
In short, contract restructures take cap charges from the current year and push them to future years.
Three void years were also added to Lewis’ deal as well. These are “fake” years that create a longer runway, further helping to lower the cap hit in the current year.
Void years are not an extension, but rather a bookkeeping measure that puts more years on the contract on paper. Lewis is still set to be a free agent in 2028, at which point the cap charges from the void years will accelerate and come due as dead cap.
Lewis’ cap hit for this season is now $6.59 million, with about $6.1 million in cap space created.
This cap move comes one day after the Jaguars also restructured the deals of Eric Murray and Patrick Mekari.
These three restructures took the Jaguars from being roughly $16 million over the 2026 salary cap to now being cap compliant with free agency near. Over the Cap has the Jaguars with $110,348 in cap space.
More cap moves will have to be made, however, so the Jaguars can make free agent additions.
This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Jaguars latest salary cap move has them under cap ahead of free agency
Reporting by Paul Bretl, Jaguars Wire / Jaguars Wire
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