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Originally Posted by Sassy Snatch
I remember it was 20 million to 10 million.
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Yeah, they changed it since.
But I think the 5th year option for a top 3 pick was essentially the franchise tag. A top 10 pick was something like the transition tag number - I think that was the average of the top 10 players.
Anything outside the top 10 was some weird breakdown; I think it was the average of the top 25 or top 30 players but with the top 2-3 removed.
For a quarterback that's probably an $8-10 million difference. Like maybe $24 million vs. $16 million.
If you like Mahomes, that might matter. But if you LOVED him, it wouldn't. If you're sitting there at 13 with Mahomes and Watson on the board and like both guys but see them as good rather than great, you're probably content waiting until 11 and being aggressive at that point.
I don't doubt that the Saints liked Mahomes and would've taken him. I don't believe for a second he was "the best we ever scouted" as Payton said, though.