The Texans have converted $7MM of Shaq Lawson‘s contract into a signing bonus, as Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets. The move will carve out $5.2MM in breathing room for Houston while adding
two voidable years to the edge rusher’s deal.
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Lawson arrived a couple weeks back in the trade that sent inside linebacker Benardrick McKinney to Miami. He was the second player from Miami’s 2020 front-seven spending spree to be jettisoned in a matter of days, following the release of Kyle Van Noy.
Lawson turned in a solid, if unspectacular, 2020 campaign with the Dolphins. Previous to that, Lawson recorded a career-high 6.5 sacks for the Bills in 2019. For all intents and purposes, Lawson’s is set to continue on the three-year, $30MM he inked with the ‘Fins last spring. But, thanks to those voidable years, the Texans can kick the can down the road a bit.
For his career, Sack-a-Shaq has 20.5 sacks across five pro seasons. Barring any further changes to his deal, he’s due to make $8.9MM in 2022.
Nice work Caserio. One of many deals he’s added journeyman talent to the roster with payroll flexibility to replace underperforming and overpaid starters.
So far im pleased with the job Caserio has done as gm. Hes walked into a pretty awful situation, even more so with Watson now being untradeable.
Hes picked up veterans and if they perform well in a rebuilding year he trades them for draft picks.
Hes signed a lot of guys to cheap deals that dont mess up the books long term.