{"id":865510,"date":"2026-04-13T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:43:28","slug":"ravens-260m-mvp-faces-87m-cap-bomb-owner-who-fired-his-coach-now-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865510\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens\u2019 $260M MVP Faces $87M Cap Bomb\u2014Owner Who Fired His Coach Now Trapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar Jackson won his second MVP in February 2024. Sixteen months later, the Baltimore Ravens restructured his contract because they had no other choice. Not because he\u2019s washed. Not because he got hurt. Because the math on the deal he negotiated himself \u2014 $260 million, no agent, no intermediary \u2014 finally caught up with an organization that chose him over an 18-year head coach and still couldn\u2019t get him to sign a new one. Jackson\u2019s 2027 cap number now sits at $84.49 million. Run the maximum void-year options, and NBC Sports puts it at $86.98 million, the third-highest cap hit in the entire NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Restructure Is the Confession<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamar Jackson won his second MVP in February 2024. Sixteen months later, the Baltimore Ravens restructured his contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-865510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116397228188690595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865510","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=865510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}