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In a normal season the earliest date to sign contract extensions for players on 1 year deals I believe is January 1st, but I am not sure how that applies to the coming season with the season likely starting a month afterwards.
After that, the issue becomes the team has to be cap compliant by the first day of free agency. Which is unlikely at best if everyone has extensions at full value.
Article 50.5(f) is an interesting read, but I do not think we cannot finesse our way out of this using it as a workaround this offseason. Moving Johnson at a heavy cost and signing the RFAs to bridge deals is still the best and perhaps only way out of this.