We at Stripe Hype have pounded the table for the Cincinnati Bengals to restructure Joe Burrow's contract as a means of freeing up $19+ million in 2026 salary cap space.
Cincinnati's perpetual inaction on that front persists as a pain point. However, in a most welcome plot twist — though not quite on the level of Baltimore's Maxx Crosby-Trey Hendrickson saga — the league office has actually done that Burrow restructure *for* the Bengals to some degree.
You read that right. Thanks to a little-known Burrow injury insurance policy that triggered from the games he missed last season due to turf toe, the team gained over $7 million in cap room as of Friday.