Collaros's Restructure Is a Dead-Money Time Bomb With No Successor Behind It

Collaros's January restructure shaved roughly $125,000 off his 2025 cap hit by converting base salary into signing bonus, but it pushed that money into 2026 — the final year of a deal he'll finish at age 38. Winnipeg has handed its backup quarterbacks fewer than 60 total snaps across the last two seasons, the lightest QB2 workload in the West, so Kyle Walters has neither a cheap developmental arm nor the cap room to buy one. The 7-6 record is being propped up by a single point of failure the front office has chosen not to insure.