The contracts for five Buffalo Bills players have been voided with the team.
Void years are baked into contracts that were previously signed, which means all of these players were already going to be free agents.
The idea is to help spread out the player’s salary cap hit over a longer period upon first putting ink to paper. It helps initially, but now the dead-cap hits for each of these individuals will count against Buffalo’s salary cap even though they are set to become free agents.
Those cap his can change if the player eventually re-signs with the Bills, which is still possible. That now begs the question, who are the five?
Here’s the full list and their respective dead-cap hits:
LB Matt Milano
Dead cap: $11 million.
OL Connor McGovern
Dead cap: $4.8 million.
DT DaQuan Jones
Dead cap: $3.7 million.
DE AJ Epenesa
Dead cap: $2.8 million.
DE Joey Bosa
Dead cap: $7.2 million.
This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: 5 players see contracts with the Bills void this week
Reporting by Nick Wojton, USA TODAY / Bills Wire
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