The Buccaneers have reworked Ali Marpet‘s contract. The team converted $5M of the lineman’s contract into a guaranteed roster bonus. The move will open up about $4M in cap space, according to ESPN’s Field Yates (via Twitter).
Specifically, the team added a pair of void years, and the offensive lineman’s cap charge will increase $1M for each of the remaining “four” years on his contract. Marpet signed a five-year, $55.125M extension (including more than $27M guaranteed) with the Buccaneers in 2018 that (barring a legitimate extension) will last through the 2023 season.
The two sides did something similar in 2020. Marpet agreed to convert a portion of his salary into a signing bonus, opening up a similar $4M chunk of cap space for the Buccaneers.
Marpet joined the organization as a second-round pick in 2015, and he’s spent his entire six-plus-year career in Tampa Bay. The lineman has started each of his 87 games since entering the NFL, including a Super Bowl-winning 2020 campaign where he started each of his 13 regular season games and all four of his postseason contests.
The 28-year-old has started each of the team’s two games this season, appearing in 100 percent of his team’s offensive snaps.
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