Slow your ****ing roll egor, I'm honestly asking. Was he a FA this offseason?...

he didn't, he got 5/88 with 60.

This was the final year of his rookie deal

Based on this I'd guess it's a 2 year deal asking him to "prove it" that the team can opt out of in year 3.

Just me guessing.

Are the years and guaranteed money correct here?...

There is nobody in the world who would have taken a comment about a new contract to have included the last year of the current deal. Anyone pretending otherwise is flat out lying. The new contract/extension/whatever talk was 100% in reference to additional years and additional money beyond the current contract. He got four additional years. He's getting 88 million additional dollars. That's $22,000,000 per year for four years. Hootie guessed $22,000,000 per year for five years. If anything, that would have been a better deal for Seattle because adding a fifth year to the contract would have been the most expensive year and likely would have made the extension more like 5/$115,000,000.

No. The extension was 4/88.

Yeah, not really. I was pretty sure he'd be back but I didn't expect this year. I am not sure that he's needed(at his contract level) with how the rest of the D has been playing but perhaps they can start to use him in smarter ways going forward. He does shoot run gaps nicely which was very much missing last year. Same with DJ.

Here you guys go, lacanfora broke it all down.


http://mweb.cbssports.com/nfl/writer...n-year-by-year

Yep. People are just trying to spin it.

Called it.

It's a "prove it or lose it" deal...

So this is just another "close, but not EXACTLY spot on" ripping of a contract prediction?

Feh...

...by people who predicted Wilson would be traded or not re-signed, no less.

I could see a trade if it happened before the draft...

:spock:

he got $60M guaranteed

so if Russell flat out falls on his dick, he'll get $60M no matter what. He got $31M just to sign his name.

This isn't a "prove it or lose it" deal. It's a massive deal. $60M guaranteed. Rodgers got $53M on his extension. (Note, extension. Apparently you have to mention it as an extension otherwise you're a moron).

What they mean is ... by 2017 or 2018, if Russell develops the way they think he will with this contract (into a top 2, top 3 NFL QB), they'll have to extend him, again, with a hoard of new money, again, before the 2018 season.