Antonio Brown is back with the Bucs. On Wednesday morning, the wide receiver agreed to a brand new one-year deal worth up to $6.25MM (Twitter link via NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo). 
The deal includes $3.1MM fully guaranteed with $2MM coming in the form of a signing bonus. The remaining half of the $6.25MM can be achieved through incentives, though it’s not clear what those benchmarks are or how achievable they will be. Regardless, it’s a solid outcome for Brown, who had no known suitors outside of the incumbent Buccaneers.
The Buccaneers signed Brown in late October, though they had to wait until Week 9 for his suspension to end. That original deal paid just $1MM in base salary and bonuses, with the potential to reach as much as $2.5MM. But, because the Bucs won the Super Bowl, AB earned an additional $750K bonus, plus more for his catch total.
In eight games, Brown recorded 45 catches for 483 yards and four touchdowns. Extrapolated for a full 16-game season, he would have been on pace for 90 catches, 966 yards, and eight touchdowns. It’s worth noting that 20 of his 45 catches came in the final three weeks of the regular season, a sign that there could be many more highlights in store for AB and TB.
The Buccaneers managed to keep most of the band together after the Super Bowl, but Brown was a conspicuous straggler. Now, he’s back in the fold to join Tom Brady, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, and Rob Gronkowski for a repeat run.
My PPR league members would like to know if he has an incentive based on total receptions.
How this team is being managed!
Wow….
I wish more teams would take a look at this as a case study of how it’s done.
anyone trying to follow a blue print in signing a 40 year old qb and sign a cancerous egotistical wr is definitely going to succeed.
You knew exactly what he meant but had to be a dipshit
You overlooked the big picture.
However, to your points: sure, yes, they signed the GOAT 40 year old QB who was as good or better than most every other QB in the league last year, regardless of age, and is showing no signs of decline AND who, by the way, led the team to win the Super Bowl in his first season with the team, after they had been a bottom-dweller for years before he arrived. I don’t see how anyone could define that as anything except a great decision.
Sure, AB has been a “piece of work.” Even still, he is exceptionally talented. There are quite a few of such “cancerous egotistical” WR at any given time on most all teams. It comes with the position, and there’s a handful of them in the HOF to prove it. Regardless, my stated opinion wasn’t simply about signing, then re-signing him.
Despite your characterization of those two players, out of the full roster, I was alluding to the fact that they not only put together a championship team, they also managed to keep most all of that team together for another run at it. In this day and age of free agency, that rarely ever happens.
Thanks for trolling though.
Have a great day.
To clarify that point, let me add “now” to my claim of exemplary management.
I believe it is happening because of the synergy of all of the current key decision makers for the Buccaneers organization right now: Licht, Arians, Bowles and, last but not least, and likely the key component, Brady.
Prior to the last season, not so much.
Right now, they are “in the zone” and doing everything right. Next season will be the quantifying test, and I predict that they will succeed, again. Achieving that level of accomplishment in immediately consecutive seasons will prove their strategies even further.
It will be exciting to be a Bucs fan this year, even more than last!
They had cap room to re-sign players and are using it. Not rocket science.
Maybe not rocket science, but, few others are able to accomplish what they have in assembling the pieces, however odd or outcast anyone wants to look at them individually, to build a championship team out of a bottom-dweller, then keep them all together for another run at it. In this era of free agency that just doesn’t happen.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that, either.
Please somebody anybody, take this clown out permanently! Biggest POS ever! I’ve never wished injury on anyone except this POS!
And Jake & Logan Paul.
That’s a ridiculous and hateful statement. As absurd as Antonio Brown is, wishing injury on him is horrible.
He belongs in jail
That’s what she said.
Keep most of the band together?? Uhh they brought the entire team back.