Eagles

Howie Roseman Reportedly Doing More Salary Cap Wizard Stuff

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Mar 15th, 2019 · 9:44 AM EDT

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Friday morning news from ESPN NFL guy Field Yates:

Source: the Eagles adjusted the contracts of DE Chris Long and LB Nigel Bradham, creating $5.032M in 2019 cap space. Howie Roseman is always creative with the cap.

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) March 15, 2019

Maybe they could use that cap space to sign or trade for…. a running back!

But wait –

There’s more, and it involves Chris Long, who is maybe coming back? Or not? After the jump, here’s Yates’ response to NJ.Com’s Mike Kaye, asking if that news confirms a Long return:

Not saying that's untrue, but also worth noting that he had $1M of a $2M roster bonus that was due today that could be converted into a signing bonus and prorated. We'll see.

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) March 15, 2019

And Long himself jumped in:

That doesn’t mean that at all.

— chris long (@JOEL9ONE) March 15, 2019

Who said that?

— chris long (@JOEL9ONE) March 15, 2019

I haven’t toyed with you. I haven’t said a word 🤷🏼‍♂️

— chris long (@JOEL9ONE) March 15, 2019

So while we don’t know what’s going on with Chris Long, Bradham’s contract was set to count $9 million against the cap this year, with $8 million guaranteed and a $1 million bonus. Long was going to hit at $5.6 million with $3.5m guaranteed and the $2 million roster bonus Yates mentioned above. There are three voidable contract years, including this one. 

Standing by for more news.