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Originally Posted by FRCDFED
Albert hasn't exactly been dominant. He doesn't deserve elite money. We know this. With his injury coupled with his attitude he may have talked his way out of town. I like the concept that no one is above the team. With other top LT getting 5 mil per year that is the market for above average LT. Use the extra money to improve other positions.
Granted we don't know if one of the other tackles from the draft will be elite either but they also won't be getting elite money. He would be paid more in line with what we were paying Winston.
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Hasn't exactly been dominant? He's easily been a top 10 tackle the last 2 years. And I have no idea what you're talking about with the $5M per year market. That's way off. Albert's franchise payment is $9.8M, which is the average elite LT compensation.
Take a look at how the best LTs are paid:
1. Jason Peters at Tackle $10,400,000
2. Joe Thomas at Tackle $10,000,000
3. Ryan Clady at Tackle $9,828,000 franchise tag
4. Brandon Albert at Tackle $9,828,000 franchise tag
5. Jordan Gross at Tackle$8,700,000
6. D'Brickashaw Ferguson at Tackle $7,250,000
7. Russell Okung at Tackle$7,060,000
8. Doug Free at Tackle $7,000,000
9. Michael Roos at Tackle $6,000,000
10. Gosder Cherilus at Tackle $5,500,000
http://www.spotrac.com/top-salaries/nfl/tackle/
LT is a premium position. And we have a very good one. You can see from the list that some of those guys aren't earning the contracts they got. But that's the market. Drafting a tackle because you can save money is idiotic any way you look at it. Some teams struggle to find good LTs. You're justifying letting a good one go and hoping to find a new one all for the sake of saving a few million dollars of Clark Hunt's money. WTF?