The Packers reached an agreement with Amari Rodgers on a four-year, rookie deal worth a total of $4.899 million.  Rodgers is the last of the Packers' draft picks to sign a contract.  Rodgers will have a cap number of $890,891 for 2021.  I previously projected  his cap number at $897,550.  His deal looks like this:

The only guaranteed money is the signing bonus, which totals $923,524.  The Packers do like their workout bonuses, and managed to insert a total of $120,000 for that purpose.  Workout bonuses are deemed likely to be earned for cap purposes because it is within the player's sole control whether he earns the bonus, as long as he is still on the roster.  Still, it is not the same as money guaranteed in a signing bonus, so agents usually resist them for premium picks.  The Packers were unable to insert workout bonuses in the contracts of Josh Myers or Eric Stokes and did not use them in their day three picks.   

The contract might and probably does contain a split salary in case of injury.  The Packers inserted a split salary into the contracts of Josiah Deguara and Simon Stepaniak last year.  In Deguara's case, the Packers paid him for the first two weeks at the normal rookie minimum and then paid the remaining weeks based on a $450,000 base salary.  Ditto for Stepaniak.  Both players received their full signing bonuses.  

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