Cushing & Texans agree to Contract Extension

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Originally Posted by Nconroe

It was nice of Andre Johnson to redo his deal so Texans would have cap space to redo Cushings deal.

this is not meant to take away from andre in anyway, but i don't know that it is "nice". i think it is spun that way a lot when a player restructures because it makes for a good story. i may be wrong, as i don't claim to know how the nfl contracts work, but from what i understand, a restructure like the one andre just did basically took money from his salary this year and accellerated a portion of it.

andre was set to makd 10.5 million this season. he agreed to restructure, meaning he will get a 5.5 million dollar lump sum now, and have a 5 million dollar base salary this year. so he didn't take less money, and he got over half of this year's salary immediately. seems like a pretty good deal to me.


if anyone knows anything about nfl contracts and can correct me if i am wrong please do.