Justin Pugh takes a pay cut with Cardinals
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The Cardinals will have left guard Justin Pugh back for 2022, but not on the same contract terms that he agreed to when he joined the team as a free agent in 2018.
According to multiple reports, Pugh has agreed to a pay cut ahead of the start of the new league year.
Pugh is now set to make a guaranteed salary of $5.5 million with another $1.5 million available in incentives. Pugh’s contract originally called for him to make $8.025 million in salary and count for over $11.8 million in salary cap space.
The Cardinals would have gotten all but $2 million of that money back, but parting ways with Pugh would have opened a hole on their offensive line and they opted to find a solution that kept that from happening.
