Browns restructure WR Amari Cooper’s contract to create $15 million in cap room, per report

The busiest movers and shakers of this weekend, the Cleveland Browns are at it again. 

According to a report from NFL Media, the Browns have restructured the contract of recently-acquired wide receiver Amari Cooper. They converted most of Cooper’s $20 million base salary for the 2022 season into a signing bonus and added two void years onto the end of his contract, allowing them to spread the cap hit out over five seasons. Doing so saved the team more than $15 million on the 2022 cap. 

Cooper had previously signed a five-year, $100 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys, with all of the guaranteed money contained in the first two years of the deal. Cooper was set to count against Dallas’ books for $22 million in 2022, but the trade to Cleveland knocked that number down by $16 million. He had three years and $60 million remaining on his contract at the time of the trade, all of it in base salary.

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