If you’re a pro football fan, you have to tip your hat to Marshal Yanda-— or any Pro Bowl player who voluntarily restructures their contract for the betterment of the team.
You won’t see this in pro baseball or basketball… maybe in hockey…This is a star athlete who knew his home team was up against a salary cap issue… and stepped up to help solve the accounting problem.
Marshal Yanda (#73), in his 6th year out of Iowa, G, 6-3, 315, is recognized as one of the best guards in the NFL…
Pro Bowl guard Marshal Yanda has permitted the Baltimore Ravens to restructure his contract, the Carroll County Times reported on Thursday.
Yanda’s base salary will drop from $4.5 million to the veteran minimum of $700,000, but he’ll get a $3.8 million signing bonus, prorated over the remaining four years of his five-year, $32 million contract.
It will help the Ravens save $2.8 million from Yanda’s salary-cap figure for 2012. Yanda is entering his sixth season in the league, all with the Ravens.
Prior to the restructure, the Ravens were about $1.5 million under the cap.
The downside to the restructure is that Yanda’s cap numbers in 2013, 2014 and 2015 will increase by $950,000. Yanda’s new cap numbers those seasons are $7.45 million (2013) and $8.45 million in 2014 and 2015.
Earlier this week, Ravens signed free agent defensive tackle Ryan McBean to a one-year contract worth $1,214,286….which is a strange amount until you factor in that if McBean makes the 53-man roster, he will serve a three-game suspension at the start of the season. Therefore, McBean will earn 14/17ths of his base salary rate, which comes to $1 million (and 24 cents).
McBean is 6-5, 305, and 28 years old, former Steelers and Denver Broncos DT… McBean was drafted by the Steelers out of Oklahoma State in the 4th round of the 2007 Draft… He was signed to the practice squad of the Denver Broncos on September 1, 2008. He became a starter at the defensive end position for the 2009-2010 season under coach Josh McDaniels. In March 2012 he was suspended for three games after failing a drug test. So I don’t really know where this signing is headed other than as a hedge bet by the Ravens against mid-season injuries along the defensive line.
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