Its along the lines of what happened to Randy Moss. When he was traded to Minnesota, they got hit with his entire salary at the entire cap figure (so to speak, since there was no cap), but once he got waived, and claimed by Tennessee, then the Titans were only responsible for what was remaining on the contract for this year. They would have been hit with his cap figure for next year if he were in the middle of a multi year contract, but since he, like Zherdev, is a free agent after this year, then the prorated salary for the remainder of the year should be the only cap figure