Falcons: Jason La Canfora On Brent Grimes

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Just because you think what you say makes sense doesn't make it right. In this case you're simply wrong. If Turner is traded to another team, that team won't assume any signing bonus that Atlanta agreed to with Turner, but they can give him a new bonus. Yes, a player who has just had a big contract will benefit from being traded early into that contract but teams will never do that. This is why the case of Routt was so surprising.

You don't like wikipedia, fine. What comes below is from the text of the 2011 CBA (http://images.nflplayers.com/mediaResour...hable.pdf) . Will you accept that?

Article 13, Section 6, Part b, item ii (Acceleration), line item 1:

For any player removed from the Team's roster, or whose Contract is assigned to another Club via waivers or trade, on or before June 1 in any League Year prior to the Final League Year, or at any time during the Final League Year, any unamor­tized signing bonus amounts will be included in Team Salary for such League Year [...]

And Article 13, section 6, part b, item ii, line item 4:

In the event that a player who has had a signing bonus allocated over the years of his Player Contract is traded, or whose Contract is assigned to another team pursuant to the NFL's waiver procedure, the Team Salary of the player's new team will not include any portion of the signing bonus.