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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
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That's just the extension, not the entire 5 year deal.
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“New money” has become one of the great fictions in the assessment of NFL contracts. But, you know, when in Rome.
For Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, the headline is that he signed a four-year, $87.6 million extension, with a new-money average of $21.9 million.
The truth is that the last year of his current contract, at a base salary of $1.542 million, has been ripped up and replaced with a new five-year, $89.1 million deal.
But since the average of the total five-year deal is $17.8 million, it won’t be characterized that way when it comes to deciding whose is bigger.
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