{"id":354957,"date":"2025-09-09T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/354957\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:21:13","slug":"browns-restructure-denzel-wards-contract-clear-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/354957\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns restructure Denzel Ward&#8217;s contract; clear cap space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> now have an additional $12 million in cap space after restructuring the contract of cornerback Denzel Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The OBR&#8217;s Jack Duffin was the first to report. Here is what Duffin <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/longformarticle\/cleveland-browns-restructure-denzel-ward-contract-253728678\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:had to say on the move;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">had to say on the move<\/a> to clear cap space:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before week one of the season the Cleveland Browns took the logical step to restructure Denzel Ward&#8217;s contract converting $12,221,000 of his $13,476,000 into a signing bonus giving them additional cap space for the 2025 season. This leaves the minimum base salary for a player of his tenure which is $1,255,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Browns now sit with around $18 million in cap space after the move. This sits them 11th in the NFL in cap space.<\/p>\n<p>However, do not expect the Browns to be preparing for any massive move as a result. Still sorting through the Deshaun Watson contract situation, the Browns will likely be rolling over every dollar into the 2026 season to deal with an overage.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2025\/09\/09\/browns-restructure-denzel-ward-contract\/86061830007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Browns restructure Denzel Ward&#039;s contract; clear cap space;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Browns restructure Denzel Ward&#8217;s contract; clear cap space<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns now have an additional $12 million in cap space after restructuring the contract of cornerback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,6049,85,54,2337,7345,563,7,63386,6,582],"class_list":{"0":"post-354957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cap-space","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-browns","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-denzel-ward","14":"tag-deshaun-watson","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-jack-duffin","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-the-browns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115175967098179473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}