More on this: After a trade, player’s new team is only responsible for his base salary and applicable bonuses — NOT his signing bonus. That counts against the old team’s cap.

Matt Stafford, for example, would incur $20M ’21 cap hit for new team, $19M dead money hit for Lions https://t.co/TO9mR2sVGD

— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) January 7, 2021