Do NFL teams have to place money in escrow for guaranteed contracts?

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(06-17-2023, 12:48 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: The 'may' versus shall is a huge deal to small tickets and those who owner is not worth 170 billion like some existing owners.

For Bengals sake, I hope it is not mandatory.

As the linked article points out, the clause was pushed by the NFLPA to prevent owner insolvency causing a player to get screwed out of his money.  Presumably this was directly pointed at the Brown and Spanos families.  But the value of broadcast contracts continually climbs to a point where the only threat of insolvency is by new ownership groups, and the league vets them so well I doubt it could ever happen in the modern NFL.  Just because it happens to Antonio Brown's team (too soon?) doesn't mean it will happen to Mike Brown's team.