{"id":433936,"date":"2025-10-10T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/433936\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:28:11","slug":"colts-restructure-cb-kenny-moores-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/433936\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts Restructure CB Kenny Moore&#8217;s Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colts restructured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=MoorKe03,MoorKe00&amp;search=Kenny+Moore&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-09_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kenny Moore<\/a>\u2018s contract this week to create $3.8MM in cap room, <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/player\/kenny-moore\/6132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per OverTheCap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.profootballrumors.com\/files\/2022\/06\/USATSI_17270875.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-254846 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;margin: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/USATSI_17270875-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>$4.75MM of the veteran cornerback\u2019s 2025 salary was converted into a signing bonus. Since Moore\u2019s contract expired after the 2026 season, the Colts added three void years to the deal to prorate his new bonus across five years instead of two. As a result, Moore\u2019s cap hit rose by $950k in each of the remaining years. This type of restructure is known as a maximum restructure because it uses void years to create more cap space in the current year of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>This particular restructure is notable because the Colts rarely use void years or maximum restructures despite their recent rise in popularity around the league. It could be an indicator that general manager\u00a0Chris Ballard is looking to capitalize on a surprising 4-1 start with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JoneDa05.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-09_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Jones<\/a> under center with an aggressive move before the trade deadline. The team now has $7.63MM in cap space, which could be enough to make an addition in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts have been dealing with a number of injuries in their secondary since training camp and have been middling against opposing passing games to start the regular season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/10\/cb-tre-hawkins-drawing-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">They are reportedly interested<\/a> in free agent cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HawkTr00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-09_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tre Hawkins<\/a>\u00a0and could pursue a higher-profile defensive back on the trade market.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ballard may also have been considering the team\u2019s in-season expenses \u2013 i.e. practice squad elevations, signing injury replacements to the 53-man roster \u2013 when he completed the restructure. The Colts did not reduce Moore\u2019s 2025 salary to the veteran minimum to create the the most space they could have. If Ballard was going shopping before the deadline, it would stand to reason that he would want as much cap space as possible to facilitate a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Moore has been sidelined for multiple weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballrumors.com\/2025\/09\/colts-cb-mike-hilton-agree-to-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">with a hamstring injury<\/a>, but it is not considered a major injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colts restructured Kenny Moore\u2018s contract this week to create $3.8MM in cap room, per OverTheCap. $4.75MM of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,26555,6,3571],"class_list":{"0":"post-433936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-kenny-moore","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115347043494544905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433936","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=433936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}