Pro Bowl guard Marshal Yanda has permitted the Baltimore Ravens to restructure his contract, the Carroll County Times reported on Thursday.
Yanda's base salary will drop from $4.5 million to the veteran minimum of $700,000, but he'll get a $3.8 million signing bonus, prorated over the remaining four years of his five-year, $32 million contract.
It will help the Ravens save $2.8 million from Yanda's salary-cap figure for 2012.
Yanda is entering his sixth season in the league, all with the Ravens.