Kenny Clark's new deal saves Packers over $1M on 2024 salary cap

Over the Cap has the new contract details for Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Kenny Clark, who signed a three-year extension before the start of training camp. Per Over the Cap, Clark’s deal includes a $17.5 million signing bonus and roster bonuses of $7.5 million in 2025 and $11 million in 2026. The mechanics of the deal actually lower Clark’s 2024 salary cap hit by $1.125 million.

Clark’s deal also includes $700,000 workout bonuses each year, and the contract added $1 million in per-game roster bonuses (earned when active on gamedays) each year between 2025-27.

Like the Packers so often do with veteran contracts, the only truly guaranteed money is the $17.5 million signing bonus. It is prorated on the cap over the four years of the contract.

Clark’s cap number falls to roughly to roughly $20.4 million in 2025 but then balloons to $31.4 million in 2026. In 2027, $18.3 million of Clark’s $27.1 million cap number is tied up in non-guaranteed base salary.

The decision point on keeping Clark on the deal will likely arrive as soon as 2026, when he has a big roster bonus due and his cap number jumps over $30 million. In the event of a release in 2026, the Packers would save roughly $14 million on the salary cap while taking on roughly $17 million in dead cap.

Kenny Clark’s new deal: cap numbers by year

2024: $26,365,000

2025: $20,365,000

2026: $31,365,000

2027: $27,142,000