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Originally Posted by RunKC
Branden Albert has missed 9 games the last 2 years and has always been hurt. Fisher has had 1 minor injury the last 2 years and played 32 of the last 34 games at a pretty respectable level.
From what I'm seeing his average per year is $10.5 million. That's already 9th in the league.
In 1 year he'll most likely not be a top 10 paid LT. That actually seems pretty cheap considering more and more players will get bigger deals pushing him down the list of highest paid tackles.
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Originally Posted by TomBarndtsTwin
Eric Fisher was much better in the second half of last year than the first. He's a young ascending player at a position of need. Those aren't cheap. He was drafted at 1.1 for a reason. The talent is there. He just needs to put it all together; which he started to do the second half of last season. The Chiefs are gambling that he will continue to get better.
As far as Albert goes, his last 2 years with us he had constant injury concerns and could never stay on the field consistently. That is why the Chiefs didn't want to give him a big long term deal. So Miami did. Then he promptly got injured and missed an entire season his first year in Miami. So I'm willing to give the Chiefs front office the benefit of the doubt that maybe they knew what they were doing on that one . . . . . .
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It's definitely a gamble, we will see if it pans out...