Lance Dunbar will earn as he plays
2:57 PM ET
Todd Archer
ESPN Staff Writer
IRVING, Texas -- Lance Dunbar has signed his one-year contract with the Dallas Cowboys, and he will have to be on the 46-man roster every game to make the base value of the contract.
The max value of Dunbar's contract is $1.75 million but $500,000 of that is tied up in incentives.
He received a $100,000 signing bonus and has an $800,000 base salary. He can earn up to $350,000 in per-game roster bonuses, receiving $21,875 per game.
Because he was on the roster for only four games last season, Dunbar's salary cap figure is $987,500.
Dunbar is in the middle of a strenuous rehab as he comes back from a torn patellar tendon and anterior cruciate ligaments suffered against the New Orleans Saints on a kickoff. He could open the season on the physically unable to perform list, which would require him to miss the first six games of the season.
==========
Makes it a little more palatable.