{"id":4191,"date":"2011-03-07T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2011-03-07T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T21:16:21","slug":"bears-restructure-peppers%e2%80%99-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"Bears Restructure Peppers\u2019 Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The Chicago Bears have restructured Pro Bowl defensive end <strong>Julius Peppers\u2019<\/strong> contract to create more salary-cap room for next season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peppers<\/strong> signed a six-year deal worth potentially $91.5 million a year ago, was due a $10.5 million roster bonus for next season. Instead, the team exercised its right to convert that money into a signing bonus and prorate it over the remaining years of his contract, which runs through the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>That saves roughly $8 million in cap space for next season, giving the Bears more room to bring in free agents and retain their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The Chicago Bears have restructured Pro Bowl defensive end Julius Peppers\u2019 contract to create more salary-cap room for next season. Peppers signed a six-year deal worth potentially $91.5 million a year ago, was due a $10.5 million roster bonus for next season. Instead, the team exercised its right to convert that money into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}