{"id":809937,"date":"2026-03-13T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/809937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:01:18","slug":"ny-giants-news-brian-burns-contract-restructure-creates-15m-in-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/809937\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: Brian Burns contract restructure creates $15M in cap space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Burns\u2019 cap hit will drop from $36.55 million to $21.3 million after the Giants moved $22.75 million in salary to a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Burns is in the third year of a five-year, $141 million contract. His cap hit was the team\u2019s highest. It is now fourth behind Dexter Lawrence ($26.958M), Paulson Adebo ($24.199M), and Andrew Thomas ($24.045M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How much cap space do the Giants currently have following this move? Spotrac says $29.043 million, but trying to figure that out is actually useless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Spotrac\u2019s math does not include the following contract:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LB Tremaine Edmunds<br \/>PK Jason Sanders<br \/>WR Isaiah Hodgins<br \/>CB Greg Newsome<br \/>S Ar\u2019Darius Washington<br \/>G Evan Neal<br \/>P Jordan Stout<br \/>WR Calvin Austin<br \/>TE Isaiah Likely<br \/>OLB Zaire Barnes<br \/>OLB Caleb Murphy<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With all of those deals not yet taken into account, don\u2019t expect the Burns restructure to lead to a major move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burns\u2019 cap hit will drop from $36.55 million to $21.3 million after the Giants moved $22.75 million in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,1207,24585,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-809937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-news","13":"tag-new-york-giants-salary-cap","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116222000030992503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809937","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=809937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}