{"id":19318,"date":"2013-04-26T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2013-04-26T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:39:26","slug":"dbrickashaw-ferguson-restructures-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/04\/26\/dbrickashaw-ferguson-restructures-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#8217;Brick Restructures Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in two years, Jets left tackle D&#8217;Brickashaw Ferguson has restructured his contract, as reported by Brian McIntyre of Yahoo! Sports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New on Shutdown Corner: Jets clear $5.128 million in cap space by restructuring the contract of D&#39;Brickashaw Ferguson <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/lwUeriWar8\">http:\/\/t.co\/lwUeriWar8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian McIntyre (@brian_mcintyre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_mcintyre\/status\/327862142034395137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Ferguson was due to make $8 million dollars this season with a base salary of $7.25 million and a $750,000 workout bonus for a total cap hit of $10.716 million. The new contract looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>-A base salary of $840,000, the league minimum for a player with seven accrued seasons.<\/p>\n<p>-The remaining $6.41 million will be converted into a signing bonus prorated over the next five seaosons.<\/p>\n<p>-The $750,000 workout bonus will not be changed.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets have cleared $5.1 million dollars in cap space due to this new move.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things that stood out to me: What are the Jets clearing cap space for? The obvious speculation is a deal for Chris Ivory is imminent. Also, D&#8217;Brickashaw has been in the league for\u00a0<em>seven\u00a0<\/em>years? It seems like just yesterday he was taken fourth overall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in two years, Jets left tackle D&#8217;Brickashaw Ferguson has restructured his contract, as reported by Brian McIntyre of Yahoo! Sports. New on Shutdown Corner: Jets clear $5.128 million in cap space by restructuring the contract of D&#39;Brickashaw Ferguson http:\/\/t.co\/lwUeriWar8 &mdash; Brian McIntyre (@brian_mcintyre) April 26, 2013 Ferguson was due to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":19323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Dbrickashaw_Ferguson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-51A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}