Packers Re-Sign ‘Big Dog’ Lewis

Hmm if Packers make Lewis one of their VSB exceptions he will only count $1 million against the cap this year.

And there's a new "Veteran Salary Benefit" that allows a team to re-sign up to two of its own players per year (provided they have at least four years of service time) and exclude as much as $1.25 million of each player's base salary from each year's salary cap. Here's an example: Let's say you're a four-year veteran on the Jets, and they want to re-sign you. They can offer you a one-year, $6.25 million deal, and only $5 million of it will count against their salary cap if they designated you as one of their two VSB exceptions.
 
Interesting that $1M of the Lewis contract is guaranteed.

Could mean he ends up counting that $1M against to cap.
 
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