C Garrett Bradbury signed a renegotiated contract with the #Bears that converted $1M of incentives into guaranteed salary.
The 30-year-old is now due $4.7M in 2026, with $3.7M guaranteed.
Boston at $188M with five trade exceptions totaling $45M is a war chest hiding in plain sight.
The $27.7M TPE alone can absorb an All-Star caliber player without sending a single dollar back. Add the $8.2M and $4.7M exceptions and Boston can add three rotation players through trades using only exceptions.
Tatum and Brown are locked in. White at $17M remains one of the best value contracts in the league. Pritchard off the bench at a fraction of what comparable scorers make.
The roster has two gaps: center (Queta on a team option is a placeholder) and wing depth behind Tatum and Brown. The $27.7M TPE is perfectly sized to address the center position.
Boston's front office has spent three years turning departing players into trade exceptions instead of dead money. That discipline is now paying off in the form of $45M in cap-free acquisition tools during a championship window.