Here are the details from some of the league’s most recently agreed-upon contracts:
- Cordarrelle Patterson, WR (Falcons): One year, $3MM. The decorated kick returner’s contract includes a $1.7MM base salary and $1.3MM signing bonus, Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com tweets.
- DeMarcus Walker, DL (Texans): One year, $1.5MM. The ex-Broncos D-lineman will receive $500K guaranteed and can earn up to $200K in per-game roster bonuses, per veteran NFL reporter Aaron Wilson (on Twitter). Walker’s deal will count $1.45MM against the Texans’ cap.
- Jaleel Johnson, DL (Texans): One year, $1.3MM. Johnson will see $300K of his $1MM base salary guaranteed, Wilson tweets. A $350K incentive also exists within this deal.
- Roderick Johnson, T (Texans): One year, $1.15MM. Johnson will receive $350K guaranteed. He will be attached to a $920K base salary and can collect $130K in per-game roster bonuses, Wilson tweets.
- Aldon Smith, DE (Seahawks): One year, $1.13MM. Smith agreed to a deal that includes a nonguaranteed $990K base salary, Brady Henderson of ESPN.com tweets. He will collect a $137K signing bonus, with the contract counting at $988K on Seattle’s cap sheet.
- Lane Taylor, G (Texans): One year, $1.13MM. Taylor will collect a $138K signing bonus and count $988K toward Houston’s cap, Wilson tweets.
- Duron Harmon, S (Falcons): One year, $1.1MM. Harmon will receive $363K guaranteed, per Rothstein. He will count $988K against Atlanta’s cap.
Wow the Packers must really think that Lane Taylor is toast. They have a glaring need on the OL after letting Lindsey go as a free agent and Bakhtiari expected to miss a decent amount of games while he rehabs from his ACL. Elgton Jenkins is going to have to cover one of those spots, leaving a huge hole at guard. If Taylor could have been had for only $1 mil, that kinda tells me something about how they view him.
What on God’s Green Earth do the Texans see in Jaleel Johnson? Do they really think that Mike Zimmer and Andre Patterson misused him so badly that he might still be as good as folks hoped he might be coming out of Iowa? I thought they kept him as a back-up nose tackle for too long, myself, but 16 starts at 3-tech last year should have won him, at best, a league minimum, one-year prove it deal with not a dime guaranteed.