Leisher's 2023 Ice Storm Packers mock draft.

[jleisher]

I used OzPackerfan salary cap thoughts, with some slight changes.  The mock draft I used the PFF simulator with NFLDraftbuzz for my scouting reports.  

 

Gutes and Ball get down to work on the team's cap space issues.

 

2023 Cap Space as of this mock draft per Spotrac.com:  - $8,841,812

Restructures:

Rodgers:  Option bonus, workout bonus and restructure bonus are converted to the signing bonus.  + $20,329,000.  Cap hit $11,294,568.

Bakhtiari:  Roster, workout and restructure bonuses are converted to the signing bonus.  + $16,089,035.  Cap hit $12,700,000.

Alexander:  Roster bonus is converted to signing bonus.  + $12,061,760.  Cap hit $8,150,000.

Campbell:  Roster and workout bonuses are converted to signing bonus.  + $3,705,877.  Cap hit $4,450,000.

Smith:  Roster and workout bonuses are converted to signing bonus.  + $8,600,000.  Cap hit $4,440,000.

Douglas:  Roster bonus is converted to signing bonus.  + $2,450,000.  Cap hit $5,316,667.

Clark:  Roster, workout and restructure bonuses are converted to signing bonus.   + $5,973,000.  Cap hit $18,000,000.

O'Donnell:  Roster and workout bonuses are converted to signing bonus.  + $700,000.  Cap hit $1,675,000.

Cap space saved:  $69,908,672.  Total cap space after restructures:  $61,066,860.

 

Extensions:

Gary:  5 years $120,000,000 with $50,000,000 signing bonus.  Cap hit $ 8,000,000.  + $2,892,000.

Love:  5 years $120,000,000 with $50,000,000 signing bonus.  Cap hit $8,000,000.  - $4,940,189.

Cap space saved:  $2,048,189.  Total cap space after extensions:  + $63,115,049.

 

Roster Cuts:

Rhyan:  + $485,000.

Tenuta: + $870,000.

Garvin:  + $1,010,000.

Cotton:  + $750,000.

Cap space saved:  $3,115,000.  Total cap space after roster cuts:  + $66,230,049.

Randell Cobb is brought back, but in a different role.  His title is CPR, Chief of Player Relations.  Something like Rob Davis was with the Packers.

 

Packer Resigns:

Nijman:  4 years $20m with $4m signing bonus.  Cap hit $3m.

Nixon:  3 years $20m with $5m signing bonus.  Cap hit $5m.

Ford:  2 years $6m with $2m signing bonus.  Cap hit $2m.

Amos:  2 years $14m with $4m signing bonus.  Cap hit $5m.

Lewis:  

 

[Isherwood]

The blizzard got him before he finished this one

[OzPackfan]

I like most of the moves but there is no way you can get Rodgers cap hit that low. His pro-rated bonus money (which cant be lowered) is currently 15.833m so factoring in league minimum salary, his cap charge cant go lower than 17m. Any bonus paid would increase that

[Sandy]

Yeah like Oz said, you're missing something fundamental about your cap savings. Those moves are not all legal.

[Packer_ESP]

17 hours ago, OzPackfan said:

I like most of the moves but there is no way you can get Rodgers cap hit that low. His pro-rated bonus money (which cant be lowered) is currently 15.833m so factoring in league minimum salary, his cap charge cant go lower than 17m. Any bonus paid would increase that

He's taking prorated bonus cap hits from previous signing bonuses (contracts and restructures) and "converting" them to signing bonus, so prorating them again. It's extremely wrong.

[jleisher]

On 2/23/2023 at 9:46 AM, Packer_ESP said:

He's taking prorated bonus cap hits from previous signing bonuses (contracts and restructures) and "converting" them to signing bonus, so prorating them again. It's extremely wrong.

Thank you for that information, I wasn't aware of that fact.  Thanks for pointing that out.