{"id":162315,"date":"2026-03-13T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162315\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:02:06","slug":"new-york-giants-rework-brian-burns-contract-clearing-15-1m-in-cap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162315\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants rework Brian Burns&#8217; contract, clearing $15.1M in cap space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 13, 2026, 8:10 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a> cleared $15.1 million in salary cap space this week by converting $22.75M of Pro Bowl defensive end Brian Burns&#8217; salary into a signing bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Spotrac notes that &#8220;Burns will earn a base salary of $1,300,000, a restructure bonus of $22,750,000 and a workout bonus of $500,000, while carrying a cap hit of $21,383,333 and a dead cap value of $57,050,002.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Burns signed a five-year, $141 million deal with Big Blue after being acquired in a trade with the Carolina Panthers two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last May, the Giants converted $16 million of Burns&#8217; 2025 salary into a signing bonus, clearing $12 million in cap space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Spotrac is also reflecting that the Giants have approximately $29 million in Top 51 cap space, but all contracts inked in the past 24 hours have not been factored in as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773406926_655_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 13, 2026, 8:10 a.m. ET The New York Giants cleared $15.1 million in salary cap space this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,9,11,10,1941,1942,948,7697,930,1047,691,949,682],"class_list":["post-162315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-accessfree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sstssportsnflgiants","tag-sstsngiants","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagbrian-burns","tag-tagnew-york-giants","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}