Here are figures on some of the recent contracts signed around the NFL, with all links going to Twitter unless noted otherwise.
- Dontari Poe, DT (Panthers): Three years, $28MM. $13.3MM guaranteed, $10MM signing bonus. Poe’s 2020 season doubles as an $8.5MM Panthers option (per veteran NFL reporter Howard Balzer). $600K (2018), $900K (2019), $900K (2020) workout bonuses, with another $500K for four weigh-ins a year (via Balzer).
- Kirk Cousins (Vikings): three years, $84MM. $6MM in incentives, including $500K for Super Bowl victory, $1MM for Super Bowl and top-five in points scored, $1.5MM for Super Bowl and top-three in points, $2MM for Super Bowl MVP and top-eight in points (via Albert Breer of The MMQB).
- Sam Bradford, QB (Cardinals): Two years, $40MM ($15MM guaranteed). $10MM signing bonus, $5MM if he appears in every game this season. 2019 option year ($20MM), no-trade clause (via Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle and Ben Volin of the Boston Globe).
- Dominique Easley, DE (Rams): One year, $1.85MM. $705K base salary ($50K guaranteed). $2.145MM in roster bonuses and incentives (via Wilson and Volin).
- Muhammad Wilkerson, DE (Packers): One year, $1.6MM base salary, $1.5MM signing bonus. $1MM reporting bonus, up to $600K in per-game roster bonuses. Cap number at $4.587MM (via ESPN’s Rob Demovsky).
- Daniel Brown, TE (Bears): One year, $925K, $70K signing bonus (via Balzer).
Cards GM drunk?
Heard this morning with this contract Bradford will have a career earning of $135 million and has never as the starting QB won more than 7 games in any given season.
Has he even played 7 games in a season yet?
He’s played 14-16 games four times in his career and 10 games once. If he can stay healthy, the OL is not horrible, the play calling is acceptable and the skills players around him good – David Johnson will be a BIG help – the deal could be more than worth it. Hi ceiling really is sky high.
If you can’t sing it does no good to change the audience
Lol
Part of that is terrible offensive lines he has played behind (minus last 2 years with Minnesota, who’s OL was only ok) which caused most of his injuries. Heck think of terrible teams he was stuck on. (Fisher’s rams, Kelly’s eagles) just about every qb would have failed in those scenarios.
I get it, it’s easy to point the finger at Sammy and just say he is injury prone (true due to the past o lines) and that he sucks (not true) since he has the season completion record and look at how he did vs the saints in week 1 before going down. When he is on a decent team, with a good OL, he is a decent QB. Not worth 20 million, but Cousins isn’t worth 85 million either.
Now….does Arizona have a good OL? I have no idea, but he will have a decent rb and an ok wr corps.
Both an aged Vick and Nick Foles looked pretty good in Kelly’s offense.
Only partial year 2013 foles looked good. His follow up was a disaster because of Kelly. Check the QBRs of all 3 under Kelly. Sammy (2015) and Vick (2013) were identical and foles was the least of the 3. So disagree with you.
Foles 2014 that should say….his 2013 partial season was great.
The 2016 Vikings O Line sucked, too. Bradford has been sacked 2.375 times per game throughout his career, and has a 6.2% Sack Rate. He can work behind a bad line if he has checkdown options, as his excellent 2016 season showed. He played well enough in Kelly’s offense, but it was the year after Kelly had traded LeSean McCoy and Jeremy Maclin left as a free agent.
O line was awful for Bradford last year.
The 2016 OL sucked. The 2017 OL was pretty good the first half of the season, including the one-and-a-half games Bradford played.