It was on FaceBook- so it must be true- :p

https://heavy.com/sports/cleveland-b...aker-mayfield/

I guess it is just a 1-sided love affair at this point.

Andrew Wylie's new contract is interesting -

He gets $2,385,000 base and that is also guaranteed

BUT...

He only costs for our cap, $1,187,500.

I think that the Chiefs did that same type contract with Demarcus Robinson not last year but the year before.

I think this is related to the Veteran Salary Benefit rule (VSB).

Anyway good to have Andrew back, because it always seems like we need him, and it did not cost too much either.

The 2020 CBA expanded on the VSB and created a second veteran benefit known as the 4-year Qualifying Player benefit. This benefit is only available to players who have been under contract with the team (and never released) for the immediately prior 4 or more seasons. Under this rule, the team can designate a player (or a combination of two players) to be signed and receive the benefit and reduce his (or their) base salary for Cap purposes by up to $1.25M (combined if it’s two players). This rule also limits the player’s signing bonus to $137,500 and the player’s base salary cannot be more than $1.25M over the applicable minimum salary for the player’s sevice time.

For example: The team could sign a player to a contract with a base salary of $2.325M (base salary of $1.075M + $1.25M) and a signing bonus of $137,500. The total money earned by the player would be $2,462,500, but the deal would only count $1,212,500 on the team’s Cap.

https://russellstreetreport.com/sala...2B%20137%2C500).

Thanks for posting that. I didn’t know the full details.

Let's not talk bad about my guy Boye Mafe.

Who doesn't like a guy named after food? (A traditional spicy Senegalese stew made with a tomato-peanut butter sauce)

Of course, I really liked him when I thought we could get him in the 2nd round.

:facepalm:

Stafford got his new deal.

Wilson’s up next

Rams should have released him, he is not that good

I thought Wilson got a new contract after being traded to Broncos?

He has two years left… I wouldn’t be surprised if they did something now, but who knows.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/denver-b...l-wilson-9885/

You guys see Watson's base salary in 2022 is $1 million? So any suspension the league imposes will not affect his fully guaranteed mega deal. Lol, that's flat out dirty. I do have to tip my hat to the cleverness of that deal though. Watson has a great agent representing him.

That’s how most smart teams operate.

Minimize the initial cap hit to try to have at least a resemblance of flexibility. Signing bonus in lieu of base salary in year one is very common. We do it in every contract.

My opinion comes from my Michigan fan friends.

Most recent: "My hot take as a Michigan fan is that Ojabo had bust written all over him, even before the injury.

He played one season and did so opposite a guy who was so dominant that he could've won the Heisman. It reminds me of the defensive linemen who play next to Aaron Donald, rack up mostly clean-up sacks, and then get exposed as nothing special once they've signed a big contract somewhere else."

but I admit you're absolutely right that I don't watch much college football I'm just regurgitating.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Packers are giving CB Rasul Douglas a three-year, $21 million deal worth up to $25.5 million, per source.</p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1505274776109072393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>